India vs New Zealand T20I Head-to-Head: Record & Results
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Three of the thirty-one Twenty20 internationals India and New Zealand have played have been tied. India have tied seven Twenty20 internationals in all, and three of them were against New Zealand, more than against any other opponent. Two of the three were settled by super over in the space of three days in January 2020, both in India's favour.
The overall ledger reads India 17, New Zealand 11, three tied, from matches played between September 2007 and March 2026. It closes, for now, on the most consequential meeting of the lot: the T20 World Cup final at Ahmedabad on 8 March 2026, which India won by 96 runs.
For most of the fixture's life New Zealand were the better side in the games that mattered. They won the first meeting, at Johannesburg in the 2007 World Twenty20, then the 2016 World T20 opener at Nagpur in which India were bowled out for 79, and then the 2021 group match at Dubai. India's record at ICC events against New Zealand was 0-3 until the Ahmedabad final made it 1-3.
Thirty-one matches, three of them tied
To the T20 World Cup final at Ahmedabad on 8 March 2026.
| Venue type | Matches | India won | New Zealand won | Tied | Span |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In India | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2012-2026 |
| In New Zealand | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2009-2022 |
| Neutral | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2007-2021 |
| All T20Is | 31 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 2007-2026 |
Two further fixtures were abandoned, at Visakhapatnam in September 2012 and Wellington in November 2022, so thirty-three were scheduled and thirty-one produced a match.
Every tie in the fixture happened in New Zealand, and the away column is the only one either side can call level: 5-4 to India with three matches that finished dead. India's home record, 12-5, is the straightforward part; the two neutral matches, both defeats, are the outlier.
The two super overs
| Match | Ground | Date | Scores | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd T20I | Hamilton | 29 Jan 2020 | India 179/5, New Zealand 179/6 | India won the super over |
| 4th T20I | Wellington | 31 Jan 2020 | India 165/8, New Zealand 165/7 | India won the super over |
| 3rd T20I | Napier | 22 Nov 2022 | New Zealand 160, India 75/4 (9 ov) | Tied, no super over |
The 2020 tour of New Zealand produced two ties in three days and India won both super overs, which is how a five-match series finished 5-0. Kane Williamson's 95 at Hamilton is the highest score New Zealand have made in the fixture without reaching three figures, and it still finished level. India then defended 163 for 3 at Mount Maunganui in the fifth match, holding New Zealand to 156 for 9, and completed the whitewash by seven runs.
The Napier tie was different in kind. Rain reduced India's reply to nine overs and the match finished exactly on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern par score, so there was no super over and the series ended 1-0 to India with one abandoned and one tied. The wider story of India's short-format record sits on the T20 international history page.
Ahmedabad, 8 March 2026
New Zealand put India in at the Narendra Modi Stadium and India made 255 for 5, the second-highest total in the fixture and the highest in a men's T20 World Cup final. Sanju Samson's 89 off 46 balls was the largest of three half-centuries. New Zealand were bowled out for 159 in nineteen overs, Jasprit Bumrah taking 4 for 15 and the player-of-the-match award, and India won by 96 runs to take a third T20 World Cup, defend the title they won in Barbados in 2024, and become the first host nation to win the tournament.
That match closed a run of four ICC-event meetings in which New Zealand had won the first three. The details of the tournament are on the 2026 T20 World Cup page, and the 2016 edition, whose opening match at Nagpur produced India's lowest total in this fixture, on the 2016 World T20 page. The Ahmedabad ground's own record is on its Narendra Modi Stadium records page.
Series by series
| Series or event | Host | Matches | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Twenty20 2007 | South Africa | 1 | New Zealand won |
| 2008-09 | New Zealand | 2 | New Zealand won 2-0 |
| 2012 | India | 1 (1 abandoned) | New Zealand won |
| World T20 2016 | India | 1 | New Zealand won |
| 2017-18 | India | 3 | India won 2-1 |
| 2018-19 | New Zealand | 3 | New Zealand won 2-1 |
| 2019-20 | New Zealand | 5 (2 tied) | India won 5-0 |
| T20 World Cup 2021 | UAE | 1 | New Zealand won |
| 2021-22 | India | 3 | India won 3-0 |
| 2022-23 | New Zealand | 2 (1 tied, 1 abandoned) | India won 1-0 |
| 2022-23 | India | 3 | India won 2-1 |
| 2025-26 | India | 5 | India won 4-1 |
| T20 World Cup 2026 final | India | 1 | India won |
Nine bilateral engagements, twenty-seven matches, and India have won six of the nine. India also lost the first five meetings in the fixture outright — the 2007 World Twenty20 match, both in New Zealand in 2009, the 2012 game at Chennai and the 2016 World T20 opener — so their first win did not arrive until Delhi in November 2017. Since then they have lost one series, the 2-1 in New Zealand in early 2019.
The 2025-26 home series was the last bilateral rubber and the highest scoring: India won at Nagpur, Raipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram, lost at Visakhapatnam, and passed 200 three times in five matches.
Totals: 271, 79 and 66
| Total | Team | Overs | Result | Ground | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 271/5 | India | 20 | won | Thiruvananthapuram | 31 Jan 2026 |
| 255/5 | India | 20 | won | Ahmedabad | 8 Mar 2026 |
| 238/7 | India | 20 | won | Nagpur | 21 Jan 2026 |
| 234/4 | India | 20 | won | Ahmedabad | 1 Feb 2023 |
| 225 | New Zealand | 19.4 | lost | Thiruvananthapuram | 31 Jan 2026 |
| 219/6 | New Zealand | 20 | won | Wellington | 6 Feb 2019 |
| 215/7 | New Zealand | 20 | won | Visakhapatnam | 28 Jan 2026 |
| 212/4 | New Zealand | 20 | won | Hamilton | 10 Feb 2019 |
| 209/3 | India | 15.2 | won | Raipur | 23 Jan 2026 |
| 208/6 | New Zealand | 20 | lost | Raipur | 23 Jan 2026 |
The Thiruvananthapuram match of 31 January 2026 produced 496 runs, the highest aggregate in the fixture: India 271 for 5, Ishan Kishan making 103 off 43 balls, and New Zealand 225 in reply with Finn Allen hitting 80 off 38. India won by 46 runs. Five of the ten rows above come from the 2025-26 series or the final that followed it, which is a fair measure of how much the scoring rate has moved.
At the other end sit the two collapses. India's 79 all out at Nagpur in March 2016 came on a turning surface in the opening match of a World T20 they were hosting, and is the lowest total in the fixture. New Zealand's 66 at Ahmedabad in February 2023 came after Shubman Gill's 126 not out had taken India to 234 for 4, and the resulting 168-run margin is the widest either side has managed against the other. New Zealand's biggest win is the 80 runs at Wellington in February 2019. Where these figures sit in India's own records is set out on the highest T20I team totals and lowest T20I team totals pages.
The tightest finish belongs to New Zealand: one run at Chennai in September 2012. The narrowest India win is six runs at Thiruvananthapuram in November 2017, in a match cut to eight overs a side in which they made 67 for 5 and New Zealand replied with 61 for 6.
Batting: Suryakumar Yadav and Tim Seifert
India's leading run scorers against New Zealand in T20Is.
| Batter | Span | Mat | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suryakumar Yadav | 2021-2026 | 14 | 526 | 111* | 52.60 | 170.22 | 1 |
| Rohit Sharma | 2009-2021 | 17 | 511 | 80 | 34.06 | 141.16 | 0 |
| Ishan Kishan | 2021-2026 | 12 | 372 | 103 | 31.00 | 162.44 | 1 |
| KL Rahul | 2020-2021 | 8 | 322 | 65 | 46.00 | 137.60 | 0 |
| Virat Kohli | 2012-2021 | 10 | 311 | 70 | 34.55 | 138.83 | 0 |
| Hardik Pandya | 2016-2026 | 19 | 260 | 42 | 20.00 | 130.65 | 0 |
| Abhishek Sharma | 2026-2026 | 6 | 234 | 84 | 46.80 | 248.93 | 0 |
| Shreyas Iyer | 2017-2022 | 13 | 225 | 58* | 25.00 | 124.30 | 0 |
New Zealand's leading run scorers against India.
| Batter | Span | Mat | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Seifert | 2019-2026 | 16 | 477 | 84 | 34.07 | 152.88 | 0 |
| Colin Munro | 2016-2020 | 12 | 426 | 109* | 38.72 | 148.95 | 1 |
| Kane Williamson | 2012-2022 | 13 | 419 | 95 | 34.91 | 130.12 | 0 |
| Daryl Mitchell | 2019-2026 | 20 | 383 | 59* | 22.52 | 148.44 | 0 |
| Martin Guptill | 2009-2021 | 16 | 380 | 70 | 23.75 | 131.03 | 0 |
| Ross Taylor | 2007-2020 | 13 | 349 | 54* | 34.90 | 129.25 | 0 |
| Glenn Phillips | 2017-2026 | 17 | 316 | 78 | 21.06 | 134.46 | 0 |
Four centuries have been scored in the fixture, all of them since 2017: Colin Munro's 109 not out at Rajkot in November 2017, Suryakumar Yadav's 111 not out at Mount Maunganui in November 2022, Shubman Gill's 126 not out at Ahmedabad in February 2023 and Ishan Kishan's 103 at Thiruvananthapuram in January 2026. Gill's is the highest individual score either side has made.
Two rows do not belong to the pattern of the rest. Brendon McCullum played only four Twenty20 internationals against India but made 261 runs in them at 130.50, including 91 at Chennai in 2012. Abhishek Sharma's six matches, all in 2026, produced 234 runs at a strike rate of 248.93 — the fastest scoring of anyone with a hundred runs in the fixture, by some distance.
Bowling: Sodhi's thirty, Bumrah's twenty
India's leading wicket takers against New Zealand in T20Is.
| Bowler | Span | Mat | Wkts | Best | Ave | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasprit Bumrah | 2016-2026 | 15 | 20 | 4/15 | 19.45 | 6.82 |
| Arshdeep Singh | 2022-2026 | 10 | 17 | 5/51 | 20.00 | 9.44 |
| Hardik Pandya | 2016-2026 | 19 | 14 | 4/16 | 27.64 | 9.00 |
| Axar Patel | 2017-2026 | 8 | 13 | 3/9 | 17.46 | 7.96 |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 2017-2023 | 14 | 11 | 2/26 | 36.36 | 7.84 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 2017-2026 | 8 | 9 | 2/26 | 21.22 | 7.64 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 2017-2022 | 11 | 9 | 2/24 | 33.88 | 8.02 |
| Mohammed Siraj | 2017-2022 | 4 | 8 | 4/17 | 16.62 | 8.31 |
New Zealand's leading wicket takers against India.
| Bowler | Span | Mat | Wkts | Best | Ave | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ish Sodhi | 2016-2026 | 25 | 30 | 3/18 | 23.80 | 8.50 |
| Mitchell Santner | 2016-2026 | 27 | 23 | 4/11 | 31.86 | 7.79 |
| Tim Southee | 2009-2022 | 17 | 20 | 3/16 | 28.15 | 8.72 |
| Trent Boult | 2017-2021 | 7 | 12 | 4/34 | 17.83 | 8.23 |
| Lockie Ferguson | 2019-2026 | 11 | 10 | 2/22 | 36.20 | 10.05 |
| Daniel Vettori | 2007-2012 | 4 | 6 | 4/20 | 16.00 | 6.00 |
Ish Sodhi's thirty wickets is the leading tally in the fixture and Mitchell Santner's twenty-seven appearances the most by anyone on either side — two leg-spinning and left-arm-spinning careers built substantially on bowling at India. Between them they account for fifty-three of New Zealand's wickets in the fixture, which is why the 2016 Nagpur match, where Santner took 4 for 11, reads as a template rather than an accident.
Jasprit Bumrah leads the Indian list with twenty at 19.45 and an economy rate of 6.82 that no one else with ten wickets here approaches; his 4 for 15 came in the Ahmedabad final. Arshdeep Singh's 5 for 51 is the only five-wicket return in the fixture from either side, and the runs conceded tell you it came in a high-scoring match. Axar Patel's 3 for 9 came inside a four-over spell, and Deepak Hooda's 4 for 10 at Ranchi in January 2023 is the oddest entry of all — a part-time off-spinner with five wickets in the fixture at 8.80, four of them in one innings.
The last ten matches
Most recent first.
| Date | Ground | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Mar 2026 | Ahmedabad | India won by 96 runs |
| 31 Jan 2026 | Thiruvananthapuram | India won by 46 runs |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Visakhapatnam | New Zealand won by 50 runs |
| 25 Jan 2026 | Guwahati | India won by 8 wickets |
| 23 Jan 2026 | Raipur | India won by 7 wickets |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Nagpur | India won by 48 runs |
| 1 Feb 2023 | Ahmedabad | India won by 168 runs |
| 29 Jan 2023 | Lucknow | India won by 6 wickets |
| 27 Jan 2023 | Ranchi | New Zealand won by 21 runs |
| 22 Nov 2022 | Napier | Tied |
Eight India, one New Zealand, one tied — and nine of the ten played in India. The fixture has become a home one for India in a way it was not earlier: of the eleven meetings before November 2021, six were in New Zealand or at neutral grounds.
Reading the ledger
- India lead 17-11, and every one of those seventeen wins has come since November 2017. They lost the first five meetings in the fixture, across nine years and four countries.
- The three ties are the fixture's signature. All came in New Zealand, two were resolved by super overs India won, and the third was left level by rain at Napier.
- India's neutral-venue record here is 0-2, and their ICC-event record 1-3 — but the one win was the 2026 final.
- The scoring has changed shape faster than in most India fixtures. Four of the six highest totals were made in 2026, and the 496-run aggregate at Thiruvananthapuram is a fixture record set in the same series.
- Spin has done New Zealand's work. Sodhi and Santner have taken fifty-three wickets between them, more than every New Zealand seamer in the fixture combined.
- The extremes belong to single matches: 79 all out at Nagpur, 66 all out at Ahmedabad, a one-run finish at Chennai and an eight-over game at Thiruvananthapuram decided by six.
The Test record between the two sides, which India lead but not comfortably, is on the India versus New Zealand Test head-to-head, and the fifty-over record on the India versus New Zealand ODI head-to-head. The rest of the Indian game is indexed from cricket in India.
Sources and method
The figures on this page were read from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru, filtered to men's Twenty20 internationals between India and New Zealand, and checked on 20 August 2026. The most recent match at that date was the T20 World Cup final at Ahmedabad on 8 March 2026.
The venue split uses Statsguru's home, away and neutral classification, and its three rows sum to the overall line of 31 matches, 17 India wins, 11 New Zealand wins and three ties. The two abandoned fixtures appear in the thirty-three-match scheduled list but not in the thirty-one-match ledger. The series table was built from the match-by-match result list rather than from a published series summary, so tied and abandoned matches are shown alongside the series margin rather than folded into it.
Ties were identified by filtering the result list rather than inferred from equal scores, and the super-over outcomes are stated as the tournament regulations recorded them: a tied match with a super over decided in India's favour, not a win in the ledger. That is why India's 5-0 in the 2019-20 series appears as three wins and two ties in the match column.
Batting and bowling tables are ordered by aggregate runs and wickets. Where the prose compares averages, economy rates or strike rates it names the sample floor being used — a hundred runs for batters, ten wickets for bowlers — because in a thirty-one-match fixture a rate from four innings is not comparable with one from twenty. Nothing here was computed from ball-by-ball data, and each figure is accurate to the date given rather than permanently.