India continued its run of successes in white-ball cricket at home, winning the series 2-1 after losing the first match.
A total of 25 T20Is have been played between these teams.
India leads 12-10 with 3 ties.
In India, India leads 7-4
In NZ, India leads 5-4 with 3 ties
On neutral grounds, India trail 0-2. Both these losses came in World Cup matches.
Looking at individual performances, starting with Batting:
Most runs (250 or more):
Headed by RG Sharma with C Munro some distance behind Munro. S Gill and SA Yadav are the only other ones with centuries. RG Sharma has the most fifties (six).
Highest innings (75 or more):
S Gill now has the highest score in this series, overtaking Yadav’s 111* a short time ago. Munro’s 109* is the best for NZ.
Highest strike rates (minimum 250 balls faced):
This time Munro is ahead of RG Sharma.
Now for Bowling:
Most wickets (8 or more):
New Zealand bowlers dominate this list, starting with Sodhi (25) and Southee (20). The most for India is Bumrah’s 12.
Best innings bowling (including all 4wi or more):
DJ Hooda, not a frontline bowler, has the best innings figures followed by Santner and Pandya.
Most dismissals (8 or more):
Southee has the most dismissals (13). The most by a keeper is 9 by Dhoni.
Most innings dismissals: Several players have made 3 dismissals in an innings.
All-round match performance(20 runs and 2 wickets):
HH Pandya appears to have the best match performance, which came in India’s win in the final T20I.
A total of 116 ODIs have been played between these teams,
India have won 58, New Zealand 50, ties 1, no result 7
In India: 29-8-0-1
In NZ: 14-26-1-4
Neutral 15-16-0-2
Note the strong home advantage for both teams.
Looking at individual performances, starting with Batting:
Most runs (750 or more):
The most centuries were 6 by Sehwag, followed by three players with 5 (Tendulkar, Kohli and Astle). The most 50+ scores were 13 by Kohli and Tendulkar, followed by 11 by R Taylor.
Highest innings scores (115 or more):
In this series, S Gill’s 208 became the highest for India against NZ, surpassing Tendulkar’s 186* in 1999. That was at Hyderabad, though on another ground.MG Bracewell’s 140 was the highest for NZ in India, surpassing NJ Astle’s 120 in 1999. Conway’s 138 also surpassed the old record.
Highest batting averages (Minimum 20 innings, all instances):
Headed by Kohli with Latham close behind.
Highest strike rates (Minimum 500 balls faced and 75.00):
Headed by Sehwag with Kapil Dev close behind.
Now for Bowling:
Most wickets (20 or more):
Srinath is far ahead of the second-placed Kumble. Southee has the most among current players.
Best innings bowling (including all 5wi):
SE Bond is the only one with a 6-for. Next is A Mishra. K Srikkanth is the only one with 2 five-fors.
Best bowling averages (Minimum 1000 balls bowled, all instances):
The best averages are by Srinath and Hadlee.
The best economy rates are by Hadlee and Kapil
The best strike rates are by Srinath and Southee.
Next is Fielding:
Most dismissals (12 or more):
Headed by the lesser-known NR Mongia, who also has the most stumpings. Latham has the most from current players, and R Taylor has the most catches by a fielder
Best innings fielding (4 or more dismissals):
Several have made 5 dismissals in an innings. Similarly for 4 catches as a fielder.
Best dismissal rate (Minimum 20 innings, 0.500):
Again headed by NR Mongia.
All-round performances:
Overall performances (see criteria in table below):
Only one player qualifies here,
Match performances:
Only one player qualifies, and he was an occasional bowler.
These are the players who made their Test debut in 2020:
This list is in chronological order of debut.
No really outstanding performances. We look through the good performances:
Batting: 40 or more in an innings:
PJ Malan (SA) 84 v E
KT Kasuza (Z) 63 v SL
Hasuranga de Silva (SL) 59 v SA
J da Silva (WI) 57 v NZ
GD Philips (NZ) 52 v A
S Gill (I) 45 v A
KA Jamieson (NZ) 44 v I
80 or more in the match:
PJ Malan (SA) 89 v E
S Gill (I) 80 v A
While Malan has the best innings and match scores, he is not in the current Test team of SA. Similarly Philips is not in the current NZ team. Gill is likely to make further progress, as he did with 91 in the decisive Test at Brisbane.
Bowling: 4 or more wickets in an innings:
The only fiver is by BE Hendricks, who is not in the current SA team. Jamieson with 4-39 can be said to be the bowling find for NZ, as he went on to make a 10-for.
8 or more wickets in the match:
None. The best are
6-100 by L Sipamla (SA) v SL
6-175 by BE Hendricks (SA) v E
5-77 by Mohammed Siraj (I) v A
Fielding: Most dismissals in an innings:
2 by J da Silva (WI) and by Mohammed Siraj (I)
Most dismissals in a match:
Again, 2 by J da Silva (WI) and by Mohammed Siraj (I).
da Silva is a keeper and Siraj is not.
Oddly, no one made a stumping on debut this year.
Best all-round performances:
KA Jamieson (44, 4-39) and 1 catch
Hasuranga de Silva (59, 4-171) and 1 catch.
Clearly Jamieson had the more impressive all-round debut.
As you know, India won the series 2-1 after making 329/7 in the 4th innings (Gill 91, Pujara 56, Pant 89*, Hazlewood 4-55).
India thus won two consecutive Test series against Australia, both times in away series.
This was India’s first win at Brisbane in 7 attempts. Earlier they had lost 5 and drawn only once (in 2003-04).
It was Australia’s first loss at Brisbane since 1988-89. It also ended their streak of 7 successive wins at this venue.
India at Brisbane:
Australia at Brisbane since 1988. After that loss to the West Indies, Australia were unbeaten in 31 Tests across over 32 years, with 24 wins and 7 draws.
Totals in Aus-Ind Tests at Brisbane over the years:
Now we take a closer look at all 4th-innings totals at Brisbane:
While the top score in the 4th innings is 450 by Pakistan in 2016-2017, we can see that:
India’s 329/7 is the highest 4th innings score to win, surpassing Australia’s 236/7 against WI in 1951-52.
The highest score which any visiting team has made to win here was a mere 170/3 by England in 1978-79-and that was against a deplenished Australian team unlike in the present match.
We also look at Aus v Ind Tests at this venue:
Highest individual scores (60+)
Labuschagne made the only century in this Test although Gill and Pant came close.
Toohey (82) and Sundar (62) made the highest scores by Test debutants here.
Best innings bowling (4wi and above):
Siraj and Hazlewood took fivers in this Test. Also remember that Toshack’s 5-2 in the first Test between these countries has the most economical 5wi in all Tests. WM Clark took 4-46 and 4-101 on Test debut.
And finally
Best match bowling (6wm and above):
Toshack’s 11-31 is the only tenner here. It has the 4th lowest runs conceded in all Tests, surpassed only by Ironmonger’s 11-24, McGrath’s 10-27 and Briggs’s 15-28.
The best match bowling in this Test was 7-155 by the unheralded SN Thakur.
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