Indian national cricket team in New Zealand for the 2008-09 season

The tour of India's national cricket team to New Zealand in the 2008/09 season took place from February 25 to April 7, 2009. The international cricket tour was part of the 2008/09 international cricket season and included three test matches , five ODIs and two Twenty20s . India won the Test series 1-0 and the ODI series 3-1, while New Zealand won the Twenty20 series 2-0.

Stages

Auckland Christchurch Hamilton Napier Wellington

Tour venues

The following stages were planned as venues for the tour and announced on August 28, 2008.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Eden Park	Auckland	50,000	5. ODI
AMI Stadium	Christchurch	38,628	1. T20; 3. ODI
Seddon Park	Hamilton	10,000	4. ODI; 1st test
McLean Park	Napier	22,500	1. ODI; 2nd test
Basin Reserve	Wellington	11,000	3rd test
Wellington Regional Stadium	Wellington	34,500	2. T20; 2. ODI

Squad lists

India named its roster on February 13, 2009. New Zealand named its Twenty20 roster on February 21, its ODI roster on February 28, and its test roster on March 12, 2009.

test		ODI		Twenty20
New Zealand	India	New Zealand	India	New Zealand	India
Daniel Vettori ( K ) Brent Arnel Daniel Flynn James Franklin Martin Guptill Jamie How Brendon McCullum ( wk ) Tim McIntosh Chris Martin Kyle Mills Iain O'Brien Jeetan Patel Jesse Ryder Tim Southee Ross Taylor	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Lakshmipathy Balaji Rahul Dravid Gautam Gambhir Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Zaheer Khan Dhawal Kulkarni VVS Laxman Amit Mishra Munaf Patel Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Sachin Tendulkar Murali Vijay	Daniel Vettori ( K ) Brendon McCullum ( vK & wk ) Neil Broom Ian Butler Grant Elliott Martin Guptill Peter McGlashan ( wk ) Kyle Mills Iain O'Brien Jacob Oram Jeetan Patel Jesse Ryder Tim Southee Ross Taylor Ewen Thompson	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Gautam Gambhir Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Zaheer Khan Praveen Kumar Pragyan Ojha Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh Sachin Tendulkar	Daniel Vettori ( K ) Neil Broom Ian Butler Grant Elliott Martin Guptill Brendon McCullum ( wk ) Nathan McCullum Iain O'Brien Jacob Oram Jesse Ryder Tim Southee Ross Taylor Ewen Thompson	MS Dhoni ( K & wk ) Gautam Gambhir Ravindra Jadeja Dinesh Karthik ( wk ) Zaheer Khan Praveen Kumar Pragyan Ojha Munaf Patel Irfan Pathan Yusuf Pathan Suresh Raina Virender Sehwag Ishant Sharma Rohit Sharma Harbhajan Singh Yuvraj Singh

Twenty20 Internationals

First Twenty20 in Christchurch

February 25 scorecard	Christchurch	India 162-8 (20)	-	New Zealand 166-3 (18.5)
		New Zealand wins with 7 wickets

Second Twenty20 in Wellington

February 27 scorecard	Wellington	India 149-6 (20)	-	New Zealand 150-5 (20)
		New Zealand wins with 5 wickets

One-day internationals

First ODI in Napier

March 3 scorecard	Napier	India 273-4 (38/38)	-	New Zealand 162-9 (28/28)
		India wins with 53 runs ( D / L method )

Second ODI in Wellington

March 6th scorecard	Wellington	India 188-4 (28.4)	-	New Zealand
		No result

Third ODI in Christchurch

March 8 scorecard	Christchurch	India 392-4 (50)	-	New Zealand 334 (45.1)
		India wins with 58 runs

Fourth ODI in Hamilton

March 11th scorecard	Hamilton	New Zealand 270-5 (47/47)	-	India 201-0 (23.3 / 23.3)
		India wins with 84 runs ( D / L method )

Fifth ODI in Auckland

March 14th Scorecard	Auckland	India 149 (36.3 / 43)	-	New Zealand 151-2 (23.2 / 43)
		New Zealand wins with 8 wickets

Test matches

First test in Hamilton

March 18-21 Scorecard	Hamilton	New Zealand 279 (78.2) & 279 (102.3)	-	India 520 (152.4) & 39-0 (5.2)
		India wins with 10 wickets

Second test in Napier

March 26-30 scorecard	Napier	New Zealand 619-9d (154.4) & 476-4 (180)	-	India 305 (93.5)
		draw

Third test in Wellington

April 3-7 Scorecard	Wellington	India 379 (92.1) & 434-7d (116)	-	New Zealand 197 (65) & 281-8 (94.3)
		draw

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

Testing
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Gautam Gambhir	India	3	6th	445	89.00	167	2	1
Sachin Tendulkar	India	3	5	344	68.80	160	1	2
Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	3	5	327	65.40	201	2	0
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	3	5	322	64.40	151	2	0
Rahul Dravid	India	3	6th	314	62.80	83	0	4th
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Harbhajan Singh	India	3	147.4	16	21.37	6/63	1	0
Chris Martin	New Zealand	3	134.1	14th	32.71	4/98	0	0
Zaheer Khan	India	3	115.3	13	30.76	5/65	1	0
Iain O'Brien	New Zealand	3	125.5	9	50.22	3/103	0	0
Ishant Sharma	India	3	94.2	8th	41.75	4/73	0	0

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Virender Sehwag	India	5	5	299	74.75	125 *	1	2
Sachin Tendulkar	India	3	3	244	122.00	163 *	1	1
Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	5	4th	225	56.25	105	1	1
MS Dhoni	India	5	4th	184	92.00	84 *	0	2
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	5	4th	150	37.50	77	0	2
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Harbhajan Singh	India	5	26th	5	29.60	3/27	0	0
Yuvraj Singh	India	5	25th	4th	38.25	2/71	0	0
Praveen Kumar	India	5	25.1	4th	40.25	2/28	0	0
Zaheer Khan	India	5	33	4th	46.00	2/65	0	0
Kyle Mills	New Zealand	5	36	4th	57.25	2/58	0	0

Twenty20s
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	2	2	125		69 *	0	2
Suresh Raina	India	2	2	61	61.00	61 *	0	1
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	2	2	58	29.00	31	0	0
Martin Guptill	New Zealand	2	2	51	25.50	47	0	0
Yuvraj Singh	India	2	2	51	25.50	50	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Iain O'Brien	New Zealand	2	8th	4th	16.50	2/30	0	0
Ian Butler	New Zealand	2	8th	4th	17.75	2/29	0	0
Harbhajan Singh	India	2	8th	2	17.00	1/15	0	0
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	2	8th	2	19.50	1/18	0	0
Zaheer Khan	India	2	8th	2	25.00	1/20	0	0
Tim Southee	New Zealand	2	8th	2	39.00	1/36	0	0
Irfan Pathan	India	2	7th	2	39.50	2/41	0	0

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. T20	Brendon McCullum
2. T20	Brendon McCullum
1. ODI	MS Dhoni
3. ODI	Sachin Tendulkar
4. ODI	Virender Sehwag
5. ODI	Jesse Ryder
1st test	Sachin Tendulkar
2nd test	Jesse Ryder
3rd test	Gautam Gambhir

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NZ announce home schedules against Windies and India ( English ) Cricinfo. August 28, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
2. ↑ Sidharth Monga: Dhawal Kulkarni receives maiden call-up ( English ) Cricinfo. February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
3. ↑ Oram, Taylor return but concerns grow over Mills ( English ) Cricinfo. February 21, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
4. ↑ Butler makes comeback to one-day squad ( English ) Cricinfo. February 28, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
5. ↑ Uncapped Brent Arnel makes New Zealand Test squad ( English ) Cricinfo. March 12, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
6. ↑ Records / India in New Zealand Test Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
7. ↑ Records / India in New Zealand Test Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
8. ↑ Records / India in New Zealand ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
9. ↑ Records / India in New Zealand ODI Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
10. ↑ Records / India in New Zealand T20I Series, 2008/09 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
11. ↑ Records / India in New Zealand T20I Series, 2008/09 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved July 3, 2016.