NZ vs IND 2026/27, NZ vs IND 1st ODI Match Preview

Large image: Extra overs, extra enjoyable

What can change in 4 days? On Friday, at this very floor, New Zealand scored 259 of their 20 overs. All issues being equal, we needs to be in for some breakage of ODI information, however someway Eden Park in Auckland has escaped all these years. The very best ODI rating at Eden Park stays 340 from 2007. Within the final two ODIs in Auckland, groups batting below lights have been bowled out for 150 and 76.

They clearly have to be getting ready the ODI pitch much less flat than the T20 ones. And, as Glenn Phillips stated, Eden Park may simply be the second-bounciest sq. on the earth after Perth. It stays recent as nicely: Auckland play their home matches on the Outer Oval.

If there may be some motion to go together with the bounce, this can be a correct begin to World Cup preparations for each the edges. Each of them final performed West Indies; India at house and New Zealand away. India will know for actual the place Rohit Sharma and, to a lesser extent, Virat Kohli stand with reference to a match one 12 months down the road that could possibly be performed on early-summer bouncy surfaces. New Zealand will know if they’ll match the ability of India after being outgunned within the knockouts by the identical staff within the final two white-ball World Cups.

New Zealand could have misplaced to India within the final ODI World Cup semi-final, however gained the final bilateral ODI sequence between the 2 groups. Even with out the World Cup, that is the center a part of a uncommon full worldwide tour today. We have now already had these two groups at one another for 5 entertaining T20Is the place the sequence got here down to 1 or two dropped catches despite the fact that India did take an unassailable 3-0 lead. The primary three ODIs will probably be of upper depth earlier than a few of the Check gamers from either side transfer on to arrange for the Exams.

Kind information

New Zealand: LWWWL (final 5 accomplished ODIs, most up-to-date first)
India: LWWLL

Within the highlight: Tom Latham and KL Rahul

Two Check openers who’ve common themselves to turn into wicketkeepers to have the ability to play ODI cricket. Maintaining wicket for 50 overs shouldn’t be even the half of it. However Tom Latham and KL Rahul will not be charity picks. They’ve each been wonderful middle-order batters, known as upon solely when the highest order fails, which often occurs solely in powerful circumstances. They may hope to play lengthy innings throughout this sequence to underscore their significance for his or her sides.

Group information: Conway concussed, Iyer again

After a nasty collision with Matt Henry whereas doing fielding drills on the eve of the match, Devon Conway ended up with a concussion. Whereas Conway is out for the primary ODI at the least, Henry shouldn’t be a sure starter both. New Zealand are already with out Mark Chapman and Rachin Ravindra. This might open the door for a return to the ODI aspect for Tim Seifert except New Zealand stick with Henry Nicholls, who’s often the emergency back-up opener.

New Zealand (possible): 1 Will Younger, 2 Tim Seifert/ Henry Nicholls, 3 Daryl Mitchell, 4 Glenn Phillips, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Michael Bracewell, 7 Mitchell Santner (capt), 8 Nathan Smith, 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Matt Henry/ Blair Tickner, 11 Jacob Duffy

India are nonetheless lacking their two massive gamers in Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya, however this can be a good probability for Nitish Kumar Reddy to show his bowling wares in an extended sequence. Apart from that, they’re at full energy. Count on Shreyas Iyer to switch Ruturaj Gaikwad at No. 4. Axar Patel ought to come again because the spinner who can bat. The peculiar dimensions at Eden Park may make it troublesome for Kuldeep Yadav to play, which suggests India may probably go in with three allrounders.

India (possible): 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 KL Rahul (wk), 6 Naman Dhir, 7 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Gurnoor Brar, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Arshdeep Singh

Pitch and circumstances

This is not going to be the identical pitch because the T20I, so there may be hope for some stability between bat and ball. Count on good bounce as regular. The climate is generally clear and mustn’t interrupt play.

Stats and trivia

Rohit Sharma has by no means scored an ODI hundred in New Zealand, averaging 36.41 in 13 innings and hanging at 72.95.
Shubman Gill is the main run-getter in ODI cricket this 12 months, scoring 895 runs in simply 11 innings at a mean of 111.87 and a strike charge of 118.7.

Quotes

“Floor dimensions is at all times one to play into your thoughts at Eden Park. Historically, there’s just a little little bit of bounce, which, , is nice for the seamers. And it may be fairly swirly with the wind, which may make it fairly a troublesome catching floor.”
The Eden Park dimensions are on Mitchell Santner’s thoughts

“It’s my first time that we’re taking part in so late, we’re taking part in at 3pm, so within the second innings, after we are bowling or batting, I do not know what the circumstances will probably be like, and while you play with two new balls, at night time it’s attainable that there’s extra swing, extra bounce, extra seam, so that’s the reason I believe it was very thrilling to see how the climate works, how the wicket is performed.”
Shubman Gill is cautious of the late begin timings for ODIs

Sidharth Monga is a senior author at Cricinfo