New Zealand vs India, 2020: 4th T20I – Statistical Preview

India complied their first-ever T20I series win on the New Zealand soil by taking a 3-0 winning lead following a thrilling win in the Super over on Wednesday. The series will now move to Wellington as the two sides clash off at the Westpac Stadium. With the series result already been decided, both the teams might look to make few experiments keeping the T20 World Cup in mind. However, the priority of the Kiwis will be winning the last two matches and save themselves from losing the series by a bigger margin.

All the key stats and numbers that matter ahead of the 4th T20I match in Wellington on Friday:

0 – India has not lost any of their previous 17 T20I matches where Manish Pandey was part of the playing XI. The last time India lost a T20I with Pandey in the XI was in the opening match of Nidahas Trophy 2018 against Sri Lanka.

Across the 17 games during this period, Manish aggregated 249 runs in the 14 innings he played at an average of 62.25. In fact, Manish has been unbeaten in his last five T20I innings where he scored 83 runs at a strike rate of 153.70.

3 – Martin Guptill has three fifties in nine T20I matches at the Westpac Stadium while no other player has more than one fifty here. Guptill aggregated 328 runs at an average of 41 at this venue thus far.

5 – New Zealand has failed to win any of their last five matches in the T20I format. In their last five matches, the Kiwis lost three matches while another two ended in a Tie which they lost in the Super Over. This 5-match winless streak is the longest in the T20I format at home for the Blackcaps.

6 – New Zealand won each of their last six T20I matches at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. Overall, they won 8 out of the 11 T20I games played at this venue. India played the first game of the 3-match T20I series on their previous tour at this venue and ended up registering their biggest defeat in this format of 80 runs.

13 – Tim Southee has picked up 13 wickets in T20I cricket at the Wellington’s Westpac Stadium; the most by any player. In six T20Is here, Southee claimed 13 wickets at an average of 11.46 and conceded runs at an economy rate of 6.2. Across all formats in international cricket, Southee bagged 38 wickets from 15 matches at an average of 15.71 including his career-best of 7/33 in the 2015 World Cup.

127.53 – The batting strike of 127.53 in the T20I format at the Westpac Stadium is the lowest in Men’s cricket at any T20I venue in New Zealand. The venue has recorded only 14 fifties from 11 T20Is it has hosted. The batting numbers of the visiting teams here are even worse as they scored six fifties in 11 games and have an SR of 123.27.

3992 – KL Rahul needs 8 more runs to complete 4000 runs in the Twenty20 format. The keeper-batsman amassed 3992 runs till date from 116 innings at an average of 42.02. He has scored three centuries and 33 fifties thus far in this format.

13969 – Runs Rohit Sharma aggregated in his T20I career thus far. He needs 31 more runs to become the 8th Indian to complete 14000 runs in International Cricket.