India Women vs New Zealand Head-to-Head: ODI, T20I & Test Record

This is the fixture India women have lost most often. New Zealand lead the one-day series 34-23 from 58 matches, lead the Twenty20 series 10-4 from fourteen, and all six Tests between the two sides have been drawn. Only Australia have a better record against India women, and no other opponent is close.

The gap is almost entirely away from home. In India, the one-day record is 13-10 to India with one tie; in New Zealand it is 18-7 to New Zealand. India have played four Twenty20 internationals in New Zealand and lost all four. Their one-day batting average in New Zealand is 20.07 runs per wicket against 27.29 at home.

Two innings bracket the fixture. India's 340 for 3 at DY Patil in October 2025 is their highest total against New Zealand in any format, and their 26 all out at St Saviour in Jersey in July 2002 is the lowest total in India women's one-day history.

The full head-to-head, format by format

Format	Span	Played	India won	New Zealand won	Drawn	Tied
Test	1977-2003	6	0	0	6	0
ODI	1978-2025	58	23	34	—	1
T20I	2009-2024	14	4	10	—	0
All	1977-2025	78	27	44	6	1

Six Tests without a result is unique among India women's Test opponents: against England, Australia, South Africa and West Indies they have won or lost at least one match. The last of the six was at Vapi in November 2003, and the two sides have not met in the format since.

India's one-day batting average of 22.20 runs per wicket against New Zealand is their second-worst against any opponent, ahead only of the 23.15 they manage against Australia. Against South Africa it is 32.36 and against Sri Lanka 41.35.

Six Tests, six draws

Result	Toss	India batted	Venue	Date
Drawn	India	2nd	Dunedin	8 Jan 1977
Drawn	India	1st	Ahmedabad	23 Feb 1985
Drawn	New Zealand	2nd	Cuttack	7 Mar 1985
Drawn	India	1st	Lucknow	17 Mar 1985
Drawn	India	1st	Nelson	7 Feb 1995
Drawn	India	2nd	Vapi	27 Nov 2003

Three of the six were played inside five weeks in India in early 1985, and that series produced most of the individual performances in the fixture. Sandhya Agarwal made 304 runs in four Tests against New Zealand, including 106 at Cuttack, and Gargi Banerji's 6 for 9 in the same Cuttack match remains one of the two best Test innings returns by an India woman.

Diana Edulji's bowling record across those four Tests is the extreme case of the era: 235.1 overs, 94 maidens, 338 runs, fourteen wickets at 24.14 and an economy rate of 1.43. Forty per cent of the overs she bowled against New Zealand produced no runs at all.

The other individual hundreds in the fixture came at the two ends of it: Shantha Rangaswamy's 108 at Dunedin in January 1977, in India's first overseas Test, and Hemlata Kala's 110 at Vapi in November 2003, in India's last against New Zealand.

The one-day record: 34-23 to New Zealand

Venue type	Played	India won	New Zealand won	Tied	India's average	India's highest
In India	24	13	10	1	27.29	340
In New Zealand	25	7	18	0	20.07	279
Neutral	9	3	6	0	17.14	265

Twenty-five one-day internationals in New Zealand for seven India wins is the worst away record India women have anywhere. The neutral figure is worse still in batting terms — 17.14 runs per wicket across nine matches — and it contains the 26 all out at St Saviour.

One of the 58 matches finished level. It is one of only two ties in India women's one-day record, the other being against Bangladesh.

India's recent form has changed the trend without changing the aggregate. Of the last handful of meetings, the two in India in October 2024 and October 2025 both went India's way, the second of them with a total of 340 for 3.

India's highest totals against New Zealand

One-day internationals:

Score	Overs	Result	Venue	Date
340/3	49	won	DY Patil, Navi Mumbai	23 Oct 2025
279	49.3	lost	Queenstown	18 Feb 2022
270/6	50	lost	Queenstown	15 Feb 2022
265/7	50	won	Derby	15 Jul 2017
252/4	46	won	Queenstown	24 Feb 2022
236/4	44.2	won	Ahmedabad	29 Oct 2024

Twenty20 internationals:

Score	Overs	Result	Venue	Date
194/5	20	won	Providence, Guyana	9 Nov 2018
159/4	20	lost	Hamilton	10 Feb 2019
137/8	20	lost	Queenstown	9 Feb 2022
136/6	20	lost	Bengaluru	13 Jul 2015
136	19.1	lost	Wellington	6 Feb 2019
135/6	20	lost	Auckland	8 Feb 2019

Three of India's six largest one-day totals against New Zealand came at Queenstown inside ten days in February 2022, and two of those three were losses. The 279 and the 270 for 6 were both first-innings scores that New Zealand chased down; the 252 for 4 was a successful chase.

The Twenty20 list is the more revealing one. Only one of India's six highest totals in the fixture produced a win, and 194 for 5 at Providence in the 2018 World Twenty20 — the innings that contained Harmanpreet Kaur's 103 from 51 balls — is 35 runs clear of anything else India have made against New Zealand in the format.

Leading run scorers

One-day internationals, India batters with 240 runs or more in the fixture:

Player	Span	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50
Mithali Raj	2002-2022	34	1,261	109	46.70	1	9
Smriti Mandhana	2015-2025	16	625	109	41.66	3	3
Jaya Sharma	2002-2007	17	496	96*	31.00	0	4
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2025	17	492	71	32.80	0	4
Anjum Chopra	1995-2009	20	440	60	24.44	0	3
Anju Jain	1995-2005	13	303	61	23.30	0	3
Deepti Sharma	2015-2025	14	303	69*	30.30	0	2
Purnima Rau	1993-2000	8	258	67*	36.85	0	2
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2022	22	249	57	15.56	0	1

Mithali Raj's 1,261 is the largest total any India woman has made against New Zealand in one-day cricket, built across twenty years in a fixture India mostly lost. She scored 882 against South Africa in the same format with ten fifties and no hundred; against New Zealand she got the hundred and one fewer fifty.

Smriti Mandhana's three hundreds are the most by an India batter against New Zealand and she has made them in sixteen innings. Only against South Africa, in twenty innings, has she matched that.

Jhulan Goswami's 249 runs from 22 innings at 15.56, with a fifty, is the sort of line a genuine all-rounder accumulates over two decades of batting at eight. Her bowling in the same fixture is the more remarkable half.

Twenty20 internationals, India batters with 60 runs or more:

Player	Span	Inns	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	6s
Harmanpreet Kaur	2009-2024	14	225	103	16.07	110.83	10
Jemimah Rodrigues	2018-2024	6	214	72	35.66	127.38	1
Smriti Mandhana	2015-2024	8	209	86	26.12	131.44	5
Mithali Raj	2009-2019	7	157	44	26.16	99.36	0
Veda Krishnamurthy	2011-2020	7	113	34	18.83	108.65	1
Amita Sharma	2009-2011	4	78	28*	26.00	121.87	2
VR Vanitha	2015-2015	3	77	41	25.66	102.66	2
Jhulan Goswami	2009-2015	7	75	33*	15.00	91.46	0
Shafali Verma	2020-2024	3	61	46	20.33	117.30	3

Harmanpreet Kaur's 225 in fourteen innings at an average of 16.07 is the strangest line in the fixture. Her hundred at Providence accounts for 103 of those runs; the other thirteen innings produced 122 between them.

Jemimah Rodrigues's 214 from six innings at 35.66 is the best return in the table. She and Mandhana have two Twenty20 fifties each against New Zealand and no other India batter has one. Mithali Raj's 157 came without a single six.

Leading wicket takers

One-day internationals, India bowlers with twelve wickets or more:

Player	Span	Inns	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR
Jhulan Goswami	2002-2022	31	47	6/31	21.21	3.70	34.3
Neetu David	1995-2006	21	29	5/32	21.55	3.33	38.7
Deepti Sharma	2015-2025	17	27	4/52	25.40	4.92	30.9
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	2015-2022	11	21	5/15	16.85	3.76	26.8
Nooshin Al Khadeer	2003-2007	15	20	4/38	29.40	4.35	40.5
Ekta Bisht	2011-2022	10	15	3/15	19.66	3.53	33.4
Shubhangi Kulkarni	1978-1985	10	15	4/27	16.00	3.28	29.2
DM Marathe	1997-2005	12	13	4/34	27.30	3.62	45.2
Diana Edulji	1978-1993	11	12	3/10	19.83	2.29	51.9

Jhulan Goswami took 47 one-day wickets against New Zealand at 21.21, and both her career-best 6 for 31 and one of her two one-day five-wicket hauls came in this fixture. The 6 for 31 was at Southgate in July 2011.

Rajeshwari Gayakwad's 5 for 15 at Derby in July 2017 is the best strike rate on the list and the cheapest five-wicket haul in the fixture. Shubhangi Kulkarni's average of 16.00 across ten matches between 1978 and 1985 is the best of the nine, and Diana Edulji's economy of 2.29 the tightest.

Twenty20 internationals, India bowlers with three wickets or more:

Player	Span	Inns	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Econ	SR
Poonam Yadav	2015-2022	8	10	3/33	23.40	7.31	19.2
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	2015-2022	5	7	3/17	18.85	6.60	17.1
Radha Yadav	2018-2020	5	7	2/23	21.71	7.60	17.1
Jhulan Goswami	2009-2015	7	6	2/18	21.83	6.55	20.0
Arundhati Reddy	2018-2024	5	6	2/22	26.16	7.85	20.0
Deepti Sharma	2018-2024	7	6	2/26	32.83	7.03	28.0
Amita Sharma	2009-2011	3	5	2/11	10.40	4.72	13.2
DP David	2010-2011	2	4	4/27	11.00	7.33	9.0
D Hemalatha	2018-2019	1	3	3/26	8.66	6.50	8.0

No India bowler has taken more than three wickets in a Twenty20 international innings against New Zealand except DP David, whose 4 for 27 in 2011 is the only four-wicket haul in the fixture. Ten wickets is the highest career total, which is a reflection of how few matches the two sides have played in the format — fourteen in seventeen years.

Amita Sharma's five wickets at 10.40 and Hemalatha's three at 8.66 are the best averages, both on samples too small to mean much. The qualified career figures that do mean something are on the India women best bowling averages page.

Why this fixture has run against India, and whether it still does

The historical answer is conditions. India women have played 25 one-day internationals in New Zealand and averaged 20.07 with the bat there. Seam-friendly surfaces at Hamilton, Wellington, Napier and Queenstown have accounted for far more India collapses than Indian spin has accounted for New Zealand ones, and until 2021 India had almost no fast bowling of their own to answer with.

The recent answer is different. The two one-day meetings in India in October 2024 and October 2025 both produced India wins, the second with 340 for 3, and India's white-ball batting now scores at a rate New Zealand's 1990s and 2000s sides never had to face. Smriti Mandhana's three hundreds in the fixture all came after 2018, and the full list is on the India women most centuries page.

What has not changed is the Twenty20 record — 4-10, with no wins in New Zealand at all. The bowling group India need for that is measured on the India women most wickets page and the India women best bowling figures page. For the longer story of the side, the India women's cricket history page and the India women's national team history page cover the eras this fixture spans, New Zealand's own account is on the New Zealand women's national team history page, and the rest of the Indian game starts at the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Results, margins, tosses, team totals, career figures and dates come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru team, batting and bowling records for India Women against New Zealand Women in women's Tests, women's one-day internationals and women's Twenty20 internationals, read on 27 August 2026.

The head-to-head counts are Statsguru's opposition grouping. The home, away and neutral rows were queried separately and sum exactly to the format totals, which is the check applied to every split on this page.

The 26 all out at St Saviour on 11 July 2002 was confirmed against the ranked list of India Women's lowest one-day totals rather than taken from the opposition summary alone. It is the lowest completed innings in India women's one-day record; lower totals exist elsewhere in the format's history, so no claim is made about it being a world record.

Batting and bowling tables carry a runs or wickets threshold stated above each, and averages, strike rates and economy rates are as published. The claim that Goswami's 47 wickets and Raj's 1,261 runs are their largest returns against any single opponent rests on comparing their by-opposition figures across all of India's opponents in the format.

Where a player is named only by initials in the records and the full name could not be confirmed against an authoritative source, the initial form is kept. Nothing on this page has been estimated, and figures for current players will move with the next series.