India vs New Zealand Head to Head Stats & Records in Test Cricket

India vs New Zealand Head to Head in Test Cricket

India and New Zealand have faced each other in 65 Test matches, the first in 1955 and the latest beginning on 1 November 2024. India have won 22 and New Zealand 16, with 27 drawn or ended without a result. India lead by 6. The highest innings total India have made against New Zealand is 583, against New Zealand's best of 680. The lowest completed innings are 46 and 62 respectively. India batters have scored 56 centuries here, New Zealand batters 44. Everything match by match, with venues and margins, is above. Last updated 9 September, 2026.

For a long time this was a low-stakes series squeezed in between bigger tours, and the draw column shows it. It acquired real weight in 2021, when the two met at the Ageas Bowl in the inaugural World Test Championship final. New Zealand bowled India out for 217 and 170 on a rain-shortened reserve day and won by eight wickets, taking the first global Test title there has been.

Two of the rarest feats in the format belong here, and both came in the same city. At the Wankhede in December 2021, New Zealand's left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel - born in Mumbai - took all ten wickets in India's first innings for 119, only the third bowler in Test history to do it. India still won that match by 372 runs after dismissing New Zealand for 62. Three years later, at the same ground, New Zealand completed a 3-0 sweep in India, the first time India had been whitewashed at home in a series of three or more Tests.

That 2024 series also produced India's lowest total in a home Test, 46 all out at Bengaluru in conditions that offered New Zealand's seamers unusual movement. At the other end sits New Zealand's 680 for 8 declared at the Basin Reserve in February 2014, Brendon McCullum making 302 - the first triple hundred by a New Zealander, and the biggest total the rivalry has thrown up.