New Zealand cricket team in India in 1988–89

New Zealand's tour of India in 1988-89
New Zealand's tour of India in 1988-89
	India
Dates	1 November 1988 – 19 December 1988
Captains	Dilip Vengsarkar
Test series
Result	India won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Kris Srikkanth (240)
Most wickets	Arshad Ayub (21)
One Day International series
Results	India won the 5-match series 4–0
Most runs	Mohammad Azharuddin (205)
Most wickets	Kris Srikkanth (11)

The New Zealand national cricket team toured India in the 1988–89 season to play three Test matches and five ODIs. India won the 3-match Test series 2-1 and the 5-match ODI series 4-0 (5th ODI was abandoned without a ball bowled).^[1]

Test series

1st Test

12–17 November 1988
Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
384/9d (142 overs) Navjot Singh Sidhu 116 (295) Richard Hadlee 5/65 (30 overs)		189 (122.3 overs) Andrew Jones 45 (132) Arshad Ayub 4/51 (48 overs)
141/1d (28 overs) Kris Srikkanth 58* (73) Evan Gray 1/39 (6 overs)		164 (78.4 overs) John Wright 58 (144) Arshad Ayub 4/53 (35.4 overs)

India won by 172 runs
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: SK Ghosh (Ind) and Piloo Reporter (Ind)

India won the toss and chose to bat.
Chris Kuggeleijn (NZ) made his Test debut.
Navjot Singh Sidhu (Ind) scored his first century in Tests.

2nd Test

24–29 November 1988
Scorecard

New Zealand	v	India
236 (93.3 overs) John Bracewell 52 (100) Ravi Shastri 4/45 (18 overs)		234 (75.5 overs) Kris Srikkanth 94 (137) Richard Hadlee 6/49 (20.5 overs)
279 (115 overs) Andrew Jones 78 (175) Arshad Ayub 5/50 (33 overs)		145 (49.4 overs) Arun Lal 47 (86) John Bracewell 6/51 (17.4 overs)

New Zealand won by 136 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: Ram Gupta (Ind) and VK Ramaswamy (Ind)
Player of the match: John Bracewell (NZ)

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat.
Rashid Patel (Ind) made his Test debut.

3rd Test

2–6 December 1988
Scorecard

New Zealand	v	India
254 (95 overs) Mark Greatbatch 90* (244) Arshad Ayub 4/55 (30 overs)		358 (106.3 overs) Mohammad Azharuddin 81 (134) Martin Snedden 4/69 (18.3 overs)
124 (65.3 overs) John Wright 62 (189) Kapil Dev 3/21 (10 overs)		22/0 (2.1 overs) Kris Srikkanth 18* (12)

India won by 10 wickets
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Umpires: SK Ghosh (Ind) and Ram Gupta (Ind)

New Zealand won the toss and chose to bat.
Sanjeev Sharma (Ind) made his Test debut.

One Day Internationals (ODIs)

India won the series 4–0, with one match abandoned.

1st ODI

10 December 1988
Scorecard

New Zealand 196/9 (50 overs)	v	India 197/6 (46.2 overs)
KR Rutherford 67 (121) K Srikkanth 5/27 (7 overs)		K Srikkanth 70 (87) W Watson 2/37 (10 overs)

India won by 4 wickets
Indira Priyadarshini Stadium, Visakhapatnam
Umpires: S Banerjee and RV Ramani
Player of the match: K Srikkanth (IND)

India won the toss and elected to field.
VB Chandrasekhar (IND) made his ODI debut.

2nd ODI

12 December 1988
Scorecard

New Zealand 160/7 (45 overs)	v	India 161/5 (41.3 overs)
JG Wright 39 (59) Maninder Singh 2/23 (9 overs)		NS Sidhu 67 (108) W Watson 2/33 (7.3 overs)

India won by 5 wickets
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Umpires: DN Dotiwalla and SB Kulkarni
Player of the match: NS Sidhu (IND)

New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
Because of the early twilight in this region, the match was reduced from 50 overs to 45 overs.

3rd ODI

15 December 1988
Scorecard

India 222/6 (45 overs)	v	New Zealand 169/9 (45 overs)
VB Chandrasekhar 53 (77) EJ Gray 2/26 (5 overs)		MJ Greatbatch 64 (97) K Srikkanth 5/32 (6 overs)

India won by 53 runs
Nehru Stadium, Indore
Umpires: RB Gupta and RS Rathore
Player of the match: AK Sharma (IND)

New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
The match was reduced before play started to 45 overs per side.

4th ODI

17 December 1988
Scorecard

New Zealand 278/3 (50 overs)	v	India 282/8 (47.1 overs)
MJ Greatbatch 84* (67) M Venkataramana 2/36 (10 overs)		M Azharuddin 108* (65) DK Morrison 3/50 (10 overs)