New Zealand and India begin a five-match one-day series at Eden Park, Auckland, on Wednesday 4 November 2026. The match is scheduled as a day/night fixture with a 3:00 pm local start (7:30 am IST), according to Wikipedia's series page and CricTracker's schedule. It is the first ODI of the 2026-27 India tour of New Zealand, which also includes two Tests later in the month.
What is at stake
The ODIs follow a five-match T20I series that India won 3-2. India took the first three games, at Christchurch twice and Wellington, but New Zealand won the fourth at Eden Park by 87 runs and the fifth at Hamilton on 1 November by seven wickets. New Zealand’s 259/7 in Auckland was recorded as their highest T20I total. The one-day series is a fresh start in a different format, but the visitors arrive having lost their last two matches of the tour and the hosts arrive with momentum.
Captains and squads
Mitchell Santner captains New Zealand in all five ODIs. India's leadership changes during the series: Shubman Gill is named captain for the first three matches, with Shreyas Iyer as vice-captain, and Iyer takes over for the fourth and fifth ODIs, which are played at Bay Oval, Tauranga. Both sources list the same arrangement.
India's squad for the first three ODIs includes Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj. New Zealand's group for the first three games includes Devon Conway, Tom Latham, Will Young, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson and Jacob Duffy. The final XI will only be known at the toss, so no XI is named here.
The venue
Eden Park hosted the fourth T20I of this tour, where New Zealand made 259/7. That was a T20 match and says little about 50-over conditions. No pitch report or weather forecast for 4 November had been published at the time of writing.
What to watch
- Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are in India’s ODI squad for the first three matches, while the T20I squad was a much younger group led by Iyer.
- New Zealand’s selectors have named separate squads for the first three and last two ODIs, so the Eden Park side is the one that will shape the early series.
- India’s captaincy handover after the third ODI means the first three games are the only ones Gill is down to lead.
Prediction
No pick or expected scores are given. There is no ODI head-to-head record, recent ODI form or pitch report to support a forecast, so this preview does not make one.
