Statistical Highlights – India Vs New Zealand First Test match at Wellington, Feb 21-24 2020

Virat Kohli (2 and 19) has now scored 20 or less in 10 of his last 20 Test innings (in a random fashion). His average in his other ten innings is 71.25 (570 runs, three tons including a double ton and three fifties), painting a sinusoidal innings summary graph.
The loss is India’s sixth in the 12 Tests played outside India in the last two years. 11 of those 12 tests have been decisive.
Ishant Sharma (5/68 in first innings) has now claimed a five-wicket haul in back to back Tests for the third time in his 97 Test career so far. This is his eleventh five wicket haul and also his third against New Zealand and second in Wellington as well.
The low scoring match had only two 50+ scores from both sides (Mayank Aggarwal 58 in the second innings and Kane Williamson 89 in the only innings he batted). But there were four batsmen (from both sides) registering scores in the forties.
Kane Williamson won his 17^th Test match as a captain and his first against India. He has led the team in 31 Tests so far
Ross Taylor, interestingly has been dismissed by a different Indian bowler throughout this entire series so far (T20, ODI and this Test included). The list includes Bumrah, Shami, Thakur, Saini, Jadeja, and Ishant Sharma (in this test).
Tim Southee (5/61 in the second innings) claimed his tenth career five wicket haul. This also is his second five wicket haul against India.

Third ODI – India Vs New Zealand (Feb 11, 2020) Statistical Highlights

Martin Guptill (66) has now scored 50+ scores in consecutive matches vs India for the first time in 33 innings. He now improves his record vs India to 925 runs with one hundred and six fifties, still at a moderate average of 28.9, which is his lowest against among leading teams. His career average stands at 42.51.
Colin de Grandhomme’s (58 of 25 deliveries) has now scored at a strike rate of over 100 in 15 of his 41 innings, including 5 instances against India.
Henry Nicholls (80) scored his second fifty in the series. He has alsredy registered five ducks in his short career of 46 innings so far, however, he has been dismissed in single digit scores just twice against India in 12 innings, with no ducks.
Yuzvendra Chahal’s 3-47 in 10 overs is the second most economical spell in the game for both sides. Since his hammering of 0-88 against England in June 2019, he has claimed 9 wickets in 5 matches for 250 runs, bowling 47 overs. He has now claimed 20 wickets in 11 matches against New Zealand including 3 three wicket hauls.
India has now lost four of the nine matches in which Shreyas Iyer has scored 50+ runs and that includes all 3 matches in this series.
KL Rahul’s fourth ton have all come against different countries. This is his first 100+ knock that has been for the losing side.
Hamish Bennett claimed his third career four wicket haul that improves his overall tally to 33 wickets in 19 matches. He has played in just so many games in a decade since his debut in 2010

Bangladesh’s maiden victory now means four different teams have won the last 4 editions of this tournament. South Africa, West Indies and India won the last three editions.
India has now been in the finals of this tournament in 7 of the13 editions, including in four of the last five editions.
Many successful under-19 Indian sides have sent at least 5-6 players to represent the national team in International cricket. This includes 5 players and 6 players respectively from the winning teams in the years 2000 and 2008 respectively. Even the runner up team in 2006 had 6 players to have played for India. Unfortunately, the successful teams of 2012 (winner), 2016 (losing finalist) and 2018 (winner) each have had just 2-3 players representing India so far. Hope the 2020 players turn around this abnormal trend.
Yashasvi Jaiswal becomes the fourth Indian to have been awarded the Player of the Series. Other three winners (Yuvraj Singh, Cheteshwar Pujara and Shubman Gill) have all represented India at the International level.
Yashasvi’s 400 runs is seventh among all time run getters in a single edition of this tournament and is only next to Shikhar Dhawan’s 505 runs in the 2004 edition, among the Indian players.
West Indies will next be hosting this tournament for the first time in 2022.