India vs New Zealand 2026: all 29 player ratings

113 off 38 balls in Wellington, with eleven sixes and nine fours, a hundred that ended the match in 13.2 overs and brought him Player of the Match. 29 off 12 in the opener set the tone. His 197 runs came at 223.86, but 28 across the last two games, 27 in Auckland and 1 in Hamilton, are all that keep him below Phillips.

India's finisher of the series: 42 not out off 15 in the opener, 31 off 17 in the second game, 4 not out off 1 ball in Wellington, 28 in Auckland and 33 in Hamilton. 138 runs at a strike rate of exactly 200, dismissed three times in five innings. No headline score, but a useful contribution in almost every match.

The rescue innings of the series: 51 not out off 26 from 70 for 5 in Christchurch, Player of the Match in a chase Santner's 4 for 21 had nearly stolen, then a patient 35 off 35 in Auckland. A modest aggregate of 99, three catches, and the one innings that most changed a result after Abhishek's hundred.

Six wickets, at least one in every match, and the 150th of his T20I career, Mitchell Santner in Auckland, which made him the first Indian to reach the mark. He bowled the hard overs in all five games and went at 9.45 for his trouble: not cheap, never wicketless, and India's most reliable route to a wicket.

Led India to the series win and finished with 50 off 23 in Hamilton, a 93-run third-wicket stand with Ishan Kishan. 42 in the opener was his other substantial innings; 126 runs at 25.20 is light for this mark on its own, and the captaincy of a 3-0 start in New Zealand lifts it.

Set the series tone with 67 off 33 in the opener, Player of the Match, then faded: 14, 18, 4 and 4. 107 runs at 21.40, and 40 of them in his last four innings. Kept wicket in every match except Auckland.

Two matches of genuine pace. 3 for 48 at Eden Park, Seifert, Mitchell and Jacobs, was India's best spell in that 259-run game, after 1 for 40 in Christchurch: four wickets at 22.00 each, at 11 an over on the smallest ground of the tour.

A wicket in each of the last four games, Jacobs, Allen, Phillips in Auckland and Seifert for 93 in Hamilton, plus an unbeaten 26 off 13 that finished the second chase alongside Tilak Varma. The cost was real: 192 runs conceded at 11.29, including 0 for 64 in four overs at Eden Park.

Two matches, one innings of note: 45 off 19 in Wellington, sharing a 133-run opening stand with Abhishek that broke the series decider open in the powerplay, at 15 years old. His other innings was 4 off 8, so the mark rests on one spectacular quarter-hour.

Three wickets in 15 overs: Finn Allen in Christchurch and again in Auckland, and Phillips, caught and bowled, in Wellington, plus 42 runs including 24 off 14 in the opener and three catches. A working series rather than a decisive one; no spell of his changed a match.

Three matches and one innings that mattered: 61 off 32 in Hamilton, putting on 93 with Iyer. Scores of 1 and 0 in the other two games. Kept wicket in Auckland.

Two wickets in four matches: Finn Allen, bowled, for 30 runs in four overs in the second game, and Michael Bracewell's 65 ended lbw in Auckland. Between those spells 158 runs conceded at 10.53, with long wicketless stretches. An unbeaten 18 off 17 with the bat in Auckland was a bonus.

One match, the finale, and one big wicket: Daryl Mitchell for 29, caught by Abhishek Sharma with the chase building. Four overs for 45 is expensive even on this tour's terms, and a single appearance is all there is to judge.

The senior seamer's tour never started: one wicket (Daryl Mitchell, in the second game) in four matches, 180 runs conceded at 11.25 an over, and 40 or more runs given up in every game.

Player of the Series by a distance: 341 runs, the most by any batter in a bilateral T20I series, passing Phil Salt's 331. 82 not out off 40 in the opener, 70 off 43, 17, a 107 off 49 balls with ten sixes in Auckland and 65 not out in the finale. Dismissed three times in five innings, plus five catches. The defining player of the tour, in a side that lost it.

176 runs at 44.00, the third-highest total of the series, and joint-best fielder with five catches. His 89 not out off 52 held the Wellington innings together; around it he made 28, 6, 24 off 9 balls in Auckland and 29. The steadiest New Zealand batter after Phillips.

Nine wickets at 15.56 and an economy of 7.37, the best of any bowler with more than one wicket, in a series that went for 10.64 an over. His 4 for 21 in Christchurch, Abhishek, Iyer, Axar and Dhir, left India 70 for 5 chasing 181. Two more in the opener, one in each of the next two games, three catches. His batting added 9 runs.

Player of the Match in the finale with 4 for 19, the best figures of the series, Abhishek and Samson inside the first four overs, then Nitish Kumar Reddy and Bhuvneshwar Kumar at the death. Six wickets at 21.67 across four matches; he was the one home quick who combined wickets with any control. One wicket each in the opener and in Auckland, none in Wellington.

A contribution in every match: 31, 58, 39 not out, 7 and 1 not out, 136 runs at 45.33. The 58 off 46 in Christchurch added 116 with Phillips after New Zealand had slipped to 41 for 3, and was his best work. Valuable runs at 146.24, never a dominating innings.

134 runs at 161.45 with ten sixes and no fifty: 45, 16, 40, 31 and 2. Started quickly in four straight matches, which kept India's opening bowlers under pressure, but no innings passed 45, and he fell for 2 in the Hamilton chase.

Five wickets in four matches, four of them in one spell: 4 for 23 at Eden Park, Samson, Kishan, Dhir and Arshdeep, the best figures of the series by a New Zealand seamer bar Milne's 4 for 19. Expensive in the other three games (1 for 41, 0 for 44, 0 for 27), but that one spell won a match.

One huge innings and a thin series around it: 93 off 50 in Hamilton, 74 of them in boundaries, and 36 runs in his other four innings combined (24, 7, 2 and 3). The finale lifts the mark; without it this was a poor tour.

The Auckland cameo: 65 off 25 balls at number six, with six sixes, took a strong total to 259. 82 runs at 248.48 across three innings, twice unbeaten. His off-spin was the mirror image, two wickets in the opener but 146 runs from 12 overs at 12.17 an over.

A support series done properly: three wickets, two of them in Hamilton (2 for 28, Iyer and Tilak Varma), four catches, and an unbeaten 6 in his only innings. 129 runs from 12 overs. Nothing decisive, nothing wasted.

One match, the finale: Ishan Kishan for 61 and Naman Dhir for 33, 2 for 38 in four overs. At 9.50 an over he was New Zealand's tidiest seamer on the night apart from Milne. One match is all there is to judge.

One match, and the two biggest wickets of it: in Wellington he ended Abhishek's 113, caught by Phillips, and bowled Samson, finishing with 2 for 45 in 3.2 overs. Expensive, but he removed both set batters in the innings that sealed the series.

Three wickets in two short bursts at 21.00 each: Sooryavanshi in Wellington, and Abhishek and Tilak Varma in Auckland. The trade-off was 12.60 an over in just five overs of work.

Pace without penetration: one wicket in two matches, Axar Patel in the opener, and 71 runs in six overs. Not seen after the Christchurch games.

Two matches, no wickets, 68 runs in 5.4 overs. His one good spell, 2-1-11-0 in the second game, contained the only maiden of the series, but 57 runs in the opener is the line that defines his tour.