India has the upper hand.
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Sports Desk, New Delhi. The Indian cricket team is going to start the new year with the ODI series against New Zealand. The 3 ODI series between India and New Zealand is starting from January 11. The first match of the series will be played at Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara. This clash will start at 1:30 pm Indian time, while the toss will take place at 1 pm.
Both the teams last met in the final of the Champions Trophy 2025. Where India won the trophy by 4 wickets. Now in the new year, the Kiwi team would like to avenge that defeat. If we look at the head-to-head statistics between the two teams, the host Indian team has the upper hand.
So far 120 ODI matches have been played between India and New Zealand. During this period, the Indian team has won 62 matches. Whereas the New Zealand team has won 50 matches. 1 match has been tied and 7 have also been inconclusive. The Indian team becomes even stronger at home. Men in Blue and Black Caps have faced each other 40 times on Indian soil. During this period, India has won 31 matches. Whereas New Zealand has been able to win only 8 matches. 1 match has also been inconclusive.
Incredible atmosphere 🙌🎥 🔽 Hear what #TeamIndia Captain Shubman Gill, Prasidh Krishna, and Yashasvi Jaiswal have to say about playing at the Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara ahead of its first men's ODI 👌🏟️ - By @RajalArora#INDvNZ | @IDFCFIRSTBank | @ShubmanGill | @prasidh43 |…
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ravindra Jadeja.
Devon Conway (wk), Will Young, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell (c), Zachary Foulkes, Nick Kelly, Josh Clarkson, Michael Ray, Kyle Jamieson, Mitchell Hay, Aditya Ashok, Christian Clarke, Jayden Lennox.
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