New Zealand vs India 2019-20 2nd T20I, statistical preview: Can India create history on lucky venue?

India won the first T20I of the 5-match series against New Zealand, at Eden Park, Auckland by 6 wickets. The teams will meet for the second match at the same venue on January 26. Ahead of the match, here is a statistical preview.

Statistical preview

0 instances of India winning consecutive T20Is against New Zealand so far. The outcome of their last 7 matches against New Zealand have been WLWLWLW.

0.5 win-loss ratio of India against New Zealand (4 wins, 8 defeats), their worst against any team by some distance. In fact, New Zealand are the only side against whom India have lost more matches than won.

0.545 win-loss ratio of New Zealand at Eden Park (6 wins, 11 defeats), their worst at home with a 5-match cut-off. In fact, only two teams – Zimbabwe (0.111 at Harare Sports Club) and Sri Lanka (0.25 at P Sara Stadium, Colombo) have worse ratios at a home ground with a 10-match cut-off.

1 wicket needed by Ish Sodhi (49) to become the 4th New Zealander and 34th overall to reach 50 wickets.

1 wicket needed by Jasprit Bumrah and Yuzvendra Chahal (5 each) to go past Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Irfan Pathan (5 each) and become the leading wicket-taker for India against New Zealand.

2 win-loss ratio of New Zealand against India (8 wins, 4 defeats), their best against any team with a 10-match cut-off. New Zealand have a 7-0 record against Bangladesh and 6-0 against Zimbabwe.

2 T20I wins for India in New Zealand in 6 matches – but both have come at Eden Park.

13 wickets for Sodhi against India and 10 for Mitchell Santner, the most.

34 runs needed by Martin Guptill (2,366) to become the 3rd cricketer in history to reach 2,500 runs, after Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, both of whom will play the match.

39 catches by both Kohli and Rohit, the joint-2nd among Indian non-wicketkeepers. Only Suresh Raina (42) has held more catches.

47 catches for Guptill, the joint-3rd most among all non-wicketkeepers. Only David Miller and Shoaib Malik (50 each) have held more. Ross Taylor has 45.

54 wickets for Bumrah, the most in Indian history. However, Bumrah is just 1 ahead of Chahal (53), who is also in the squad.

95 runs needed by Rohit (2,640) to go past Kohli (2,734) and secure the highest aggregate in T20I history. However, Kohli will also play the match.