Series Name: | India women's cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22 |
Team1 Image: | Flag of New Zealand.svg |
Team1 Name: | New Zealand women |
Team2 Image: | Flag of India.svg |
Team2 Name: | India women |
From Date: | 9 |
To Date: | 24 February 2022 |
Team1 Captain: | Sophie Devine[1] |
Team2 Captain: | Mithali Raj (WODIs) Harmanpreet Kaur (WT20Is) |
No Of Odis: | 5 |
Team1 Odis Won: | 4 |
Team2 Odis Won: | 1 |
Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Amelia Kerr (353) |
Team2 Odis Most Runs: | Mithali Raj (232) |
Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Jess Kerr (7) Amelia Kerr (7) |
Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Deepti Sharma (10) |
Player Of Odi Series: | Amelia Kerr (NZ) |
No Of Twenty20s: | 1 |
Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 0 |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Suzie Bates (36) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Sabbhineni Meghana (37) |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Jess Kerr (2) Hayley Jensen (2) Amelia Kerr (2) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Pooja Vastrakar (2) Deepti Sharma (2) |
The India women's cricket team toured New Zealand in February 2022.[2] The tour consisted of five Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and one Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I).[3] The WODI matches were used as preparation for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup, also taking place in New Zealand.[4]
The initial tour schedule had matches in North New Zealand.[5] 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.[6] [7]
New Zealand won the one-off WT20I match by 18 runs following an all-round performance from Lea Tahuhu.[8] New Zealand won the first WODI match by 62 runs after Suzie Bates scored a century.[9] 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.[10] New Zealand went on to win the match by three wickets, with Amelia Kerr scoring an unbeaten 119 runs.[11] New Zealand won the third match by three wickets,[12] winning the series with two matches to play.[13] It was India's tenth consecutive loss in WODIs after batting first.[14]
The fourth WODI match was reduced to 20 overs per side due to rain.[15] New Zealand won the match by 63 runs,[16] following another all-round performance from Amelia Kerr.[17] India won the fifth and final WODI match by six wickets, with New Zealand winning the series 4–1.[18]
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.[23] As a result, Sabbhineni Meghana was added to India's WODI squad, after previously only being named in their WT20I squad.[24] Simran Bahadur was also added to India's WODI squad, making her debut in the second match.[25] 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.[26] Ekta Bisht was added to India's squad for the third WODI.[27] 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.[28]