From 1975 to 2019 a total of 107 ODI’s had been played between India and New Zealand teams. India won 55 of them and New Zealand got 46 victories. One ODI tied and five got no result. Right now the India cricket team is at number 2nd position in the ICC men’s ODI team rankings. The New Zealand team is listed at number three.
The highest total of the Seddon Park, Hamilton cricket ground in ODI format is 363/4. Scored by the West Indies team in 2014 against the home team New Zealand. The home team’s highest score of this venue is 350/9 scored in 2007 against Australia. Between India and New Zealand in 2013/14 tour out of five ODI’s two matches had been played on this ground. Both of them won by the home team. Actually that series was won by the New Zealand team by 4-0.
Now after the five consecutive victories in the shortest format of cricket. The visitor team India got a lot of confidence. Now the home team must have to take advantage of their home conditions. KL Rahul was the leading runs scorer of the T20I series with 224 runs. C Munro scored 178 runs and LRPL Taylor scored 166. SN Thakur took eight wickets, JJ Bumrah took six and IS Sodhi was the third number best bowler of the series with six wickets.
Watch Ind v NZ 1st ODI Cricket Highlights Videos today – 1st ODI (D/N), India tour of New Zealand from Seddon Park, Hamilton Wednesday, 05-02-2020.
NZ win the toss and opt to bowl first.
India team: India: 1 Mayank Agarwal, 2 Prithvi Shaw, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 KL Rahul (wk), 6 Kedhar Jadhav, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Jasprit Bumrah.
New Zealand team: 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Henry Nicholls, 3 Tom Blundell, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Tom Latham (capt&wk), 6 Jimmy Neesham, 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Ish Sodhi, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Hamish Bennett.
Match Timings: 02:00 GMT | 15:00 Local
Umpires – Langton Rusere, Shaun Haig
TV Umpires – Bruce Oxenford
Match Referee – Chris Broad
Reserve Umpire – Chris Brown
Match number – ODI no. 4235
