New Zealand women's cricket team in India in 2015

New Zealand women's cricket team in India
	India women	New Zealand women
Dates	28 June 2015 – 15 July 2015
Captains	Mithali Raj	Suzie Bates
One Day International series
Results	India women won the 5-match series 3–2
Most runs	Thirush Kamini (158)	Sophie Devine (181)
Most wickets	Rajeshwari Gayakwad (8)	Leigh Kasperek (6)
Twenty20 International series
Results	New Zealand women won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Veda Krishnamurthy (77) Vellaswamy Vanitha (77)	Sophie Devine (102)
Most wickets	Rajeshwari Gayakwad (5)	Kate Broadmore (6)

The New Zealand women's national cricket team toured India from 28 June to 15 July playing a series of five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).^[1] All the tour matches (five ODIs, three T20I and one tour match against India A Women) were hosted at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Initially Alur (North Bangalore) was selected to host the three T20I, but eventually the matches were moved to M Chinnaswamy Stadium.^[2][3] The first three of five ODIs matches were part of the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship. The hosts won the ODI series by 3–2, whereas the tourists secured a victory in T20I series by 2–1.

Squads

ODIs		T20Is
India[4][5]	New Zealand[6][7]	India[8]	New Zealand[6][7]
Mithali Raj (c) Jhulan Goswami Harmanpreet Kaur Smriti Mandhana Poonam Raut Shikha Pandey Thirush Kamini Ravi Kalpana (wk) Veda Krishnamurthy Deepti Sharma Rajeshwari Gayakwad Ekta Bisht Sneh Rana Poonam Yadav Niranjana Nagarajan	Suzie Bates (c) Sophie Devine (vc) Kate Broadmore Natalie Dodd Maddy Green Georgia Guy Leigh Kasperek Morna Nielsen Katie Perkins Anna Peterson Rachel Priest (wk) Hannah Rowe Amy Satterthwaite Lea Tahuhu	Mithali Raj (c) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Harmanpreet Kaur Veda Krishnamurthy Latika Kumari Smriti Mandhana Shikha Pandey Anuja Patil Poonam Yadav Sneh Rana Shubhlakshmi Sharma Vellaswamy Vanitha Sushma Verma (wk)	Suzie Bates (c) Sophie Devine (vc) Kate Broadmore Natalie Dodd Maddy Green Georgia Guy Leigh Kasperek Morna Nielsen Katie Perkins Anna Peterson Rachel Priest (wk) Hannah Rowe Amy Satterthwaite Lea Tahuhu

Tour matches

All times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

List A:India A Women vs New Zealand Women

Tour match 26 June 9:00 Scorecard

New Zealand Women  256 (50 overs)	v	India A Women 159 (49 overs)
Katie Perkins 45 (42) Preeti Bose 3/32 (10 overs)		Priya Punia 42 (59) Morna Nielsen 3/22 (9 overs)

New Zealand Women won by 97 runs. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: NR Seetharam Prabhu (Ind) and Nagaraj Ramesh (Ind)

• New Zealand women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ananya Upendran, Madhusmita Behera, Paramita Roy, Priya Punia, Sarika Koli, Sushree Dibyadarshini, Taniya Bhatia Vellaswamy Vanitha (Ind) all made their List A debut.
• Players per side India A Women 12 (12 batting, 11 fielding); New Zealand Women 14 (12 batting, 11 fielding).

ODI Series

All times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

Main article: 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship

1st ODI

ICC Women's Championship 28 June 9:00 Scorecard

India  142 (44.3 overs)	v	New Zealand 125 (45.3 overs)
Jhulan Goswami 57 (67) Morna Nielsen 3/24 (10 overs)		Suzie Bates 28 (57) Sneh Rana 3/26 (9 overs)

India Women won by 17 runs. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) and Ulhas Gandhe (Ind)

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ravi Kalpana (Ind) and Leigh Kasperek (NZ) made their ODI debuts.
• ICC Women's Championship points: India Women 2, New Zealand Women 0

2nd ODI

ICC Women's Championship 1 July 9:00 Scorecard

India  163 (49.3 overs)	v	New Zealand 164/7 (44.2 overs)
Thirush Kamini 61 (69) Suzie Bates 3/21 (6 overs)		Sophie Devine 33 (62) Jhulan Goswami 2/14 (10 overs)

New Zealand Women won by 3 wickets. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• ICC Women's Championship points: India Women 0, New Zealand Women 2

3rd ODI

ICC Women's Championship 3 July 9:00 Scorecard

India  182/9 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 186/4 (45.4 overs)
Veda Krishnamurthy 61(85) Sophie Devine 3/40 (10 overs)		Rachel Priest 64(101) Harmanpreet Kaur 1/14 (4 overs)

New Zealand Women won by 6 wickets. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)

• India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
• ICC Women's Championship points: India Women 0, New Zealand Women 2

4th ODI

6 July 09:00 Scorecard

New Zealand  220 (49.5 overs)	v	India 221/2 (44.2 overs)
Sophie Devine 89 (102) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 3/25 (10 overs)		Mithali Raj 81* (88) Anna Peterson 1/19 (4 overs)

India Women won by 8 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Sadashiv Iyer (Ind)

• New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

8 July 09:00 Scorecard

New Zealand  118 (41 overs)	v	India 121/1 (27.2 overs)
Suzie Bates 42(85) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/15 (8 overs)		Thirush Kamini 62*(78) Morna Nielsen 1/23 (4 overs)

India Women won by 9 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Subrat Das (Ind) and Umesh Dubey (Ind)

• New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat

T20I series

All times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

1st T20I

11 July 10:00 Scorecard

India  125 (19.5 overs)	v	New Zealand 126/2 (12.3 overs)
Mithali Raj 35 (23) Kate Broadmore 3/16 (4 overs)		Sophie Devine 70 (22) Jhulan Goswami 1/19 (2 overs)

New Zealand Women won by 8 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Yeshwant Barde and S Shankar (Ind)

• New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Natalie Dodd and Leigh Kasperek (NZ) both made their T20I debut.

2nd T20I

13 July 10:00 Scorecard

India  136/6 (20 overs)	v	New Zealand 139/4 (17.5 overs)
Vellaswamy Vanitha 41 (39) Sophie Devine 2/31 (4 overs)		Rachel Priest 60 (34) Jhulan Goswami 2/29 (3 overs)

New Zealand Women won by 6 wickets. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Umesh Dubey and S Shankar (Ind)

• New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.
• Hannah Rowe (NZ) made her T20I debut.

3rd T20I

15 July 10:00 Scorecard

New Zealand  126/8 (20 overs)	v	India 128/7 (19 overs)
Suzie Bates 34 (27) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 3/17 (4 overs)		Veda Krishnamurthy 34 (19) Sophie Devine 2/13 (4 overs)

India won by 3 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Subrat Das (Ind)

• India Women won the toss and elected to field

References

1. "New Zealand Women Cricket team tour to India". ESPNcricinfo. June 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
2. "Women's cricket: India-New Zealand series in Bengaluru". Oneindia.com (Sports Media). 23 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
3. "New Zealand women's India tour revised". bcci.tv. 23 June 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
4. "India women Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
5. "Uncapped Kalpana in India squad for NZ ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
6. "New Zealand women Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
7. "New Zealand women Squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
8. "India T20I squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 July 2015.

External links

• New Zealand Women Tour of India 2015 page on ESPNcricinfo
• ICC Women's Championship page on ESPNcricinfo