New Zealand cricket team in India in 1999–2000

The New Zealand national cricket team toured India and played three Test matches and five Limited Overs Internationals (LOI) between September and November 1999.

New Zealand cricket team in India in 1999–2000
	India	New Zealand
Dates	30 September – 17 November 1999
Captains	Sachin Tendulkar	Stephen Fleming
Test series
Result	India won the 3-match series 1–0
Most runs	Sachin Tendulkar (435)	Stephen Fleming (261)
Most wickets	Anil Kumble (20)	Daniel Vettori (12)
Player of the series	Anil Kumble (Ind)
One Day International series
Results	India won the 5-match series 3–2
Most runs	Sourav Ganguly (301)	Nathan Astle (234)
Most wickets	Anil Kumble (6) Nikhil Chopra (6)	Daniel Vettori (6)
Player of the series	Sourav Ganguly (Ind)

Squads

Test squads		ODI squads
India	New Zealand	India	New Zealand
Sachin Tendulkar (c)	Stephen Fleming (c)	Sachin Tendulkar (c)	Stephen Fleming (c)
Rahul Dravid	Nathan Astle	Sourav Ganguly	Nathan Astle
Sadagoppan Ramesh	Craig Spearman	Rahul Dravid	Roger Twose
Sourav Ganguly	Chris Cairns	Ajay Jadeja	Chris Cairns
Devang Gandhi	Adam Parore (w/k)	Robin Singh	Craig Spearman
Javagal Srinath	Craig McMillan	Sunil Joshi	Chris Harris
MSK Prasad (w/k)	Gary Stead	Vijay Bharadwaj	Adam Parore (w/k)
Anil Kumble	Matt Horne	Devang Gandhi	Scott Styris
Ajay Jadeja	Dion Nash	Nikhil Chopra	Daniel Vettori
Vijay Bharadwaj	Matthew Bell	Javagal Srinath	Alex Tait
Sunil Joshi	Chris Harris	MSK Prasad (w/k)	Chris Drum
Harbhajan Singh	Daniel Vettori	Anil Kumble	Dion Nash
Venkatesh Prasad	Paul Wiseman	Venkatesh Prasad	Shayne O'Connor
	Shayne O'Connor	Ajit Agarkar	Matt Horne
		T Kumaran
		Debasis Mohanty

Test series

1st Test

10–14 October 1999 Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
83 (27 overs) Javagal Srinath 20 (35) Dion Nash 6/27 (11 overs)		215 (91.1 overs) Craig Spearman 51 (122) Javagal Srinath 6/45 (22 overs)
505/3d (183 overs) Rahul Dravid 144 (327) Daniel Vettori 2/171 (71 overs)		251/7 (135 overs) Stephen Fleming 73 (250) Anil Kumble 3/42 (41 overs)

Match drawn Mohali, Chandigarh Umpires: Peter Manuel (SL) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind) Player of the match: Javagal Srinath (Ind)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to field
• Test Debut: MSK Prasad, Vijay Bharadwaj and Devang Gandhi (IND)

2nd Test

22–25 October 1999 Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
330 (148.1 overs) Devang Gandhi 88 (186) Daniel Vettori 6/127 (55.1 overs)		256 (102.5 overs) Chris Cairns 53 (139) Anil Kumble 4/67 (32.5 overs)
83/2 (18.2 overs) Sachin Tendulkar 44 (39) Chris Cairns 1/10 (3 overs)		155 (66.5 overs) Adam Parore 48 (137) Anil Kumble 6/67 (26.5 overs)

India won by 8 wickets Green Park, Kanpur Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) and Arani Jayaprakash (Ind) Player of the match: Anil Kumble (Ind)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat

3rd Test

29 October–2 November 1999 Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
583/7d (167 overs) Sachin Tendulkar 217 (344) Daniel Vettori 4/200 (57 overs)		308 (141.4 overs) Nathan Astle 74 (227) Anil Kumble 5/82 (48 overs)
148/5d (32 overs) Saurav Ganguly 53 (62) Nathan Astle 1/13 (5 overs)		252/3 (95 overs) Gary Stead 78 (173) Harbhajan Singh 1/55 (26 overs)

Match drawn Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Rudi Koertzen (Rsa) and V. K. Ramaswamy (Ind) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat

One Day Internationals (ODIs)

1st ODI

5 November 1999 Scorecard

New Zealand 349/9 (50 overs)	v	India 306 (47 overs)
NJ Astle 120 (136) BKV Prasad 3/75 (10 overs)		AD Jadeja 95 (97) NJ Astle 3/40 (7 overs)

New Zealand won by 43 runs Municipal Stadium, Rajkot Umpires: K Hariharan and I Sivaram Player of the match: NJ Astle (NZ)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• SB Styris (NZ) made his ODI debut.

2nd ODI

8 November 1999 Scorecard

India 376/2 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 202 (33.1 overs)
SR Tendulkar 186* (150) CL Cairns 1/73 (10 overs)		SB Styris 43 (52) BKV Prasad 2/38 (5.1 overs)

India won by 174 runs Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: Jasbir Singh and SK Tarapore Player of the match: SR Tendulkar (IND)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd ODI

11 November 1999 Scorecard

India 261/5 (50 overs)	v	New Zealand 247/8 (50 overs)
SC Ganguly 153* (150) NJ Astle 2/47 (10 overs)		NJ Astle 97 (111) N Chopra 3/32 (9 overs)

India won by 14 runs Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior Umpires: SC Gupta and K Parthasarathy Player of the match: SC Ganguly (IND)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.

4th ODI

14 November 1999 Scorecard

New Zealand 236/9 (50 overs)	v	India 188 (45.3 overs)
CL Cairns 80 (114) N Chopra 2/33 (9 overs)		SB Joshi 61* (56) CJ Drum 2/31 (6 overs)

New Zealand won by 48 runs Nehru Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: SK Bansal and S Choudhary Player of the match: CL Cairns (NZ)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• T Kumaran (IND) made his ODI debut.

5th ODI

17 November 1999 Scorecard

New Zealand 179/9 (50 overs)	v	India 181/3 (44 overs)
RG Twose 47 (94) T Kumaran 3/24 (9 overs)		SC Ganguly 86 (110) DL Vettori 2/46 (10 overs)

India won by 7 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Umpires: VM Gupte and SK Sharma Player of the match: SC Ganguly (IND)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• DJ Gandhi (IND) made his ODI debut.