India vs New Zealand ODI series 2026: schedule, head-to-head and India’s record at the four grounds

India and New Zealand start a five-match ODI series at Eden Park in Auckland on Wednesday 4 November, and every game starts at 3pm local time, which is 7:30am IST. India lead the ODI head-to-head 63 wins to 52, but the series is in New Zealand, and that changes the picture. India have won 14 and lost 26 of their 45 ODIs there, and they have not won one since February 2019. New Zealand also won the last ODI series between the sides, 2-1 in India in January 2026, which was their first bilateral ODI series win in India.

India vs New Zealand ODI schedule

Match	Date	Ground	Start (IST)
1st ODI	Wednesday 4 November	Eden Park, Auckland	7:30am
2nd ODI	Saturday 7 November	HNRY Stadium, Wellington	7:30am
3rd ODI	Tuesday 10 November	Seddon Park, Hamilton	7:30am
4th ODI	Friday 13 November	Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui	7:30am
5th ODI	Sunday 15 November	Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui	7:30am

The ODIs follow the five T20Is, which India lead 3-1 going into the last game at Seddon Park on 1 November. After the one-dayers come two Tests, at the Basin Reserve in Wellington from 19 November and at Hagley Oval in Christchurch from 27 November.

India vs New Zealand ODI head-to-head

The sides have played 123 ODIs. India have won 63 and New Zealand 52, with one tie and seven no-results, and four more were abandoned without a ball bowled. India had the better of it for most of the last decade and won eight in a row against New Zealand from January 2023, a run that took in the 2025 Champions Trophy final in Dubai and ended with the first game of the January 2026 series in Vadodara. New Zealand then won in Rajkot and Indore to take that series.

Split	Played	India won	NZ won	Tied	No result
All ODIs	123	63	52	1	7
In New Zealand	45	14	26	1	4

The away record is the one that matters this month. India won series in New Zealand in 2009 (3-1) and 2019 (4-1), and lost in 2014 (0-4, with a tie), 2020 (0-3) and 2022 (0-1, with two washouts). Their last ODI win there was the fifth game of the 2019 series in Wellington on 3 February 2019, by 35 runs. Since then they have played six ODIs in New Zealand, lost four and had two rained off.

India’s ODI record at the four grounds

Ground	India v NZ there	What the ground’s ODI record says
Eden Park	W3 L6 T1	Chasing side won 43 of 75 decided
HNRY Stadium	W2 L1, 1 no result	Batting first won 16 of 30 decided
Seddon Park	W1 L6, 1 no result	New Zealand have won 28 and lost 7
Bay Oval	W2 L1	First-innings average 277.2 since 2015

Eden Park, Auckland

India have lost six of their ten ODIs against New Zealand at Eden Park, and their three wins all came chasing. The three times they batted first against New Zealand here, in 2002, 2009 and 2022, they lost. The ground has a long history of chasing, 43 wins to 32, though the four most recent decided ODIs went 3-1 to the side batting first, and first-innings totals have averaged 285.8 since 2019. Eden Park has also just staged the biggest T20I total of India’s tour: New Zealand made 259 for 7 there on 30 October and won the fourth T20I by 87 runs. The Eden Park pitch report has every record.

HNRY Stadium, Wellington

This is India’s best ground in New Zealand on paper. They have won two of their four ODIs there, including that 35-run win in February 2019, lost one heavily, by 87 runs in 2014, and had the 2009 game rained off. The ground itself is close to neutral: the side batting first has won 16 of the 30 decided ODIs, and the first innings has averaged 265.7 in the 11 since 2015. New Zealand’s record here is 17 wins and 11 defeats. More in the Wellington Regional Stadium pitch report.

Seddon Park, Hamilton

The third ODI is the one India will worry about. New Zealand have won 28 and lost only seven of their ODIs at Seddon Park, with three no-results, and India have beaten them there once, by 84 runs in March 2009. They have lost all four of their ODIs there since that produced a result, two in 2014, one in 2019 and one in 2020. The toss has meant little: the captain who won it has won 19 of the 40 decided games. The Seddon Park pitch report has the detail.

Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui

Bay Oval has hosted only 13 men’s ODIs, and three of them were India’s. They won the first two in January 2019, by 90 runs batting first and by seven wickets chasing, and lost by five wickets in February 2020. It is the highest-scoring of the four grounds, with first innings averaging 277.2 across the nine full-length ODIs since 2015 that produced a result. Our Bay Oval pitch report covers it in full.

The squads

Both sides have split their squads in two, because their Test players leave the one-day group after the third ODI in Hamilton. India’s first three games are under Shubman Gill and the last two under Shreyas Iyer, and Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are in both groups. Prasidh Krishna has been ruled out of the series with his hamstring injury, and Auqib Nabi is set to take his place. India’s squad story has the full lists.

Mitchell Santner captains New Zealand in all five. Rachin Ravindra, who missed the T20Is with a dislocated shoulder, is back for the first three, and Finn Allen, Lockie Ferguson and Tim Seifert join for the two games at Bay Oval. Will O’Rourke, Zak Foulkes and Ben Sears were not available. Here is how New Zealand picked theirs.

How the series looks

On the overall head-to-head India would start as favourites, and they have the more experienced top order, with Rohit and Kohli playing what is now their only format. The record in New Zealand points the other way. India are without an ODI win there in more than seven years, New Zealand beat them in India in January, and the third game is at a ground where New Zealand almost never lose.

That makes the first two games important for India. Eden Park and Wellington are where their record is least bad, and a 2-0 start would leave Hamilton as a chance to close the series rather than a game they need. If New Zealand win in Auckland, the series could tilt their way quickly. There is one more variable: both sides change their squads for the last two matches, New Zealand by seven players, so the Bay Oval games may say more about the 2027 World Cup plans than about the first three.

For how the two sides have fared across all formats, see our India vs New Zealand records page, and for the biggest numbers in the format, our ODI records. The T20I leg is covered in our India vs New Zealand T20 series guide.

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