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New Zealand in international cricket: record, rivals and highs
From 2002 to 2026, New Zealand took the field 656 times in the one day formats of men's international cricket. The balance: 209 wins in 393 ODIs and 133 in 263 T20Is, a 54.8% rate in decided games. Below are the format by format record, the rivalries and the scoring records of the period.
Record by format
| Format | P | W | L | T | NR | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODI | 393 | 209 | 160 | 3 | 21 | 56.2% |
| T20I | 263 | 133 | 109 | 10 | 11 | 52.8% |
| Total | 656 | 342 | 269 | 13 | 32 | 54.8% |
Key: P played, W wins, L losses, T ties and NR no result (games washed out or abandoned, which do not enter the win percentage).
Head to head record (ODI + T20I)
| Opponent | P | W | L | T + NR | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 100 | 55 | 41 | 4 | 57.3% |
| India | 89 | 34 | 47 | 8 | 40.0% |
| Sri Lanka | 80 | 42 | 29 | 9 | 57.5% |
| England | 77 | 34 | 36 | 7 | 46.6% |
| Australia | 73 | 18 | 49 | 6 | 26.5% |
| Bangladesh | 63 | 44 | 17 | 2 | 72.1% |
| South Africa | 60 | 25 | 33 | 2 | 43.1% |
| West Indies | 55 | 34 | 14 | 7 | 66.7% |
| Zimbabwe | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 90.0% |
| Ireland | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Rivalries
No rival has crossed New Zealand's path as often as Pakistan: 100 games in the period. Among matchups with at least 10 games, the best record is against Ireland (11 wins in 11 games, 100.0%) and the worst is against Australia (18 in 73, 26.5%).
Highest innings totals
| Score | Format | Opponent | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 401/6 | ODI | Pakistan | Nov 4, 2023 |
| 398/5 | ODI | England | Jun 12, 2015 |
| 393/6 | ODI | West Indies | Mar 21, 2015 |
| 383/9 | ODI | Australia | Oct 28, 2023 |
| 254/5 | T20I | Scotland | Jul 29, 2022 |
| 243/5 | T20I | West Indies | Jan 3, 2018 |
| 243/6 | T20I | Australia | Feb 16, 2018 |
| 238/3 | T20I | West Indies | Nov 29, 2020 |
Scores use cricket notation: runs/wickets lost in the innings (super overs excluded).
One fact to keep
New Zealand is the unlucky finalist of the modern era: it lost the 2015 and 2019 ODI finals (the latter on boundary count with scores level) and the 2021 and 2026 T20 finals, all recorded in this dataset.
Data source: the Cricsheet project (cricsheet.org), men's international ODI and T20I matches, Open Data Commons Attribution (ODC-BY) 1.0 license, snapshot of Jul 10, 2026. Totals, records and percentages are computed by this site from the ball by ball files; the win percentage counts only games with a result (ties count, no results are excluded), and ties settled by a super over follow the official convention and remain ties. Independent site, with no affiliation to the ICC, to any board or to the teams mentioned.
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