India women's cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22

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India women's cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22
  Flag of New Zealand.svg Flag of India.svg
  New Zealand women India women
Dates 9 – 24 February 2022
Captains Sophie Devine [n 1] Mithali Raj (WODIs)
Harmanpreet Kaur (WT20Is)
One Day International series
Results New Zealand women won the 5-match series 4–1
Most runs Amelia Kerr (353) Mithali Raj (232)
Most wickets Jess Kerr (7)
Amelia Kerr (7)
Deepti Sharma (10)
Player of the series Amelia Kerr (NZ)
Twenty20 International series
Results New Zealand women won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs Suzie Bates (36) Sabbhineni Meghana (37)
Most wickets Jess Kerr (2)
Hayley Jensen (2)
Amelia Kerr (2)
Pooja Vastrakar (2)
Deepti Sharma (2)

The India women's cricket team toured New Zealand in February 2022. [1] The tour consisted of five Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and one Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I). [2] The WODI matches were used as preparation for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup, also taking place in New Zealand. [3]

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The initial tour schedule had matches in North New Zealand. [4] However, on 27 January 2022, New Zealand Cricket announced a change to the itinerary, with all the matches being held at the John Davies Oval. [5] [6]

New Zealand won the one-off WT20I match by 18 runs following an all-round performance from Lea Tahuhu. [7] New Zealand won the first WODI match by 62 runs after Suzie Bates scored a century. [8] As part of New Zealand's "contingency planning" for the Women's Cricket World Cup, Amy Satterthwaite captained the team for the second WODI match. [9] New Zealand went on to win the match by three wickets, with Amelia Kerr scoring an unbeaten 119 runs. [10] New Zealand won the third match by three wickets, [11] winning the series with two matches to play. [12] It was India's tenth consecutive loss in WODIs after batting first. [13]

The fourth WODI match was reduced to 20 overs per side due to rain. [14] New Zealand won the match by 63 runs, [15] following another all-round performance from Amelia Kerr. [16] India won the fifth and final WODI match by six wickets, with New Zealand winning the series 4–1. [17]

Squads

WODIsWT20Is
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand [18] Flag of India.svg  India [19] Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand [20] Flag of India.svg  India [21]

India's Smriti Mandhana, Meghna Singh and Renuka Singh missed the WT20I match and the opening WODI fixture due to being in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) in New Zealand. [22] As a result, Sabbhineni Meghana was added to India's WODI squad, after previously only being named in their WT20I squad. [23] Simran Bahadur was also added to India's WODI squad, making her debut in the second match. [24] Following the conclusion of the second WODI, Smriti Mandhana, Meghna Singh and Renuka Singh were all out of quarantine and available to play in the remaining matches. [25] Ekta Bisht was added to India's squad for the third WODI. [26] Brooke Halliday was ruled out of New Zealand's squad for the last two WODI matches, after being deemed a close contact to someone with COVID-19. [27]

Only WT20I

9 February 2022
13:00
Scorecard
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg
155/5 (20 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
137/8 (20 overs)
Suzie Bates 36 (34)
Pooja Vastrakar 2/16 (4 overs)
Sabbhineni Meghana 37 (30)
Jess Kerr 2/20 (4 overs)
New Zealand Women won by 18 runs
John Davies Oval, Queenstown
Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and John Dempsey (NZ)
Player of the match: Lea Tahuhu (NZ)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to field.

WODI series

1st WODI

12 February 2022
11:00
Scorecard
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg
275 (48.1 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
213 (49.4 overs)
Suzie Bates 106 (111)
Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/28 (7.1 overs)
Mithali Raj 59 (73)
Jess Kerr 4/35 (9.4 overs)
New Zealand women won by 62 runs
John Davies Oval, Queenstown
Umpires: John Bromley (NZ) and Derek Walker (NZ)
Player of the match: Suzie Bates (NZ)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sabbhineni Meghana (Ind) made her WODI debut.

2nd WODI

15 February 2022
11:00
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
270/6 (50 overs)
v
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
273/7 (49 overs)
Mithali Raj 66* (81)
Sophie Devine 2/42 (8 overs)
Amelia Kerr 119* (135)
Deepti Sharma 4/52 (10 overs)
New Zealand Women won by 3 wickets
John Davies Oval, Queenstown
Umpires: John Dempsey (NZ) and Derek Walker (NZ)
Player of the match: Amelia Kerr (NZ)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Simran Bahadur (Ind) made her WODI debut.

3rd WODI

18 February 2022
11:00
Scorecard
India  Flag of India.svg
279 (49.3 overs)
v
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
280/7 (49.1 overs)
Deepti Sharma 69* (69)
Rosemary Mair 2/43 (10 overs)
Lauren Down 64* (52)
Jhulan Goswami 3/47 (10 overs)
New Zealand Women won by 3 wickets
John Davies Oval, Queenstown
Umpires: Cory Black (NZ) and John Dempsey (NZ)
Player of the match: Lauren Down (NZ)

4th WODI

22 February 2022
11:00
Scorecard
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg
191/5 (20 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
128 (17.5 overs)
Amelia Kerr 68* (33)
Renuka Singh 2/33 (4 overs)
Richa Ghosh 52 (29)
Amelia Kerr 3/30 (3.5 overs)
New Zealand women won by 63 runs
John Davies Oval, Queenstown
Umpires: John Bromley (NZ) and Derek Walker (NZ)
Player of the match: Amelia Kerr (NZ)
  • India Women won the toss and elected to field.
  • The match was reduced to 20 overs per side due to rain.

5th WODI

24 February 2022
11:00
Scorecard
New Zealand  Flag of New Zealand.svg
251/9 (50 overs)
v
Flag of India.svg  India
255/4 (46 overs)
Amelia Kerr 66 (75)
Sneh Rana 2/40 (10 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 71 (84)
Hayley Jensen 1/29 (4 overs)
India women won by 6 wickets
John Davies Oval, Queenstown
Umpires: John Dempsey (NZ) and Derek Walker (NZ)
Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
  • New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.

Notes

  1. Amy Satterthwaite captained New Zealand Women for the second WODI.

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