# India women's cricket team in New Zealand in 2018–19

The India women's cricket team toured New Zealand to play the New Zealand women's cricket team in January and February 2019. The tour consisted of three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs), which formed part of the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship, and three Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. The WT20I matches took place on the same day as the corresponding men's fixtures at the same venues.
In the third WODI of the series, India's captain Mithali Raj became the first woman to play in 200 ODI matches. India Women won the WODI series 2–1. New Zealand Women won the WT20I series 3–0.

## Squads

| WODIs | WODIs | WT20Is | WT20Is |
| New Zealand | India | New Zealand | India |
| Amy Satterthwaite (c) Suzie Bates Bernadine Bezuidenhout (wk) Sophie Devine Lauren Down Maddy Green Holly Huddleston Leigh Kasperek Amelia Kerr Katie Perkins Anna Peterson Hannah Rowe Lea Tahuhu | Mithali Raj (c) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Dayalan Hemalatha Mansi Joshi Harmanpreet Kaur Smriti Mandhana Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Poonam Yadav | Amy Satterthwaite (c) Suzie Bates Bernadine Bezuidenhout Sophie Devine Caitlin Gurrey Hayley Jensen Leigh Kasperek Amelia Kerr Frances Mackay Katey Martin Rosemary Mair Anna Peterson Hannah Rowe Lea Tahuhu | Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Ekta Bisht Dayalan Hemalatha Mansi Joshi Smriti Mandhana Shikha Pandey Anuja Patil Priya Punia Mithali Raj Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav |
Bernadine Bezuidenhout was ruled out of New Zealand's WT20I squad due to an injury and was replaced by Anna Peterson.

## Tour match
### 50-over match: Central Districts Hinds v India Women

* 18 January 2019 11:00 Scorecard
| India 217/9 (50 overs) | v | Central Districts Hinds 79 (31.4 overs) |
| Mona Meshram 78* (90) Jess Watkin 4/34 (10 overs) | | Jess Watkin 17 (19) Poonam Yadav 4/6 (5.4 overs) |
* India Women won by 138 runs Nelson Park, Napier Umpires: Richard Hooper (NZ) and Glen Walklin (NZ)
* India Women won the toss and elected to bat.

## WODI series
### 1st WODI

* ICC Women's Championship 24 January 2019 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 192 (48.4 overs) | v | India 193/1 (33 overs) |
| Suzie Bates 36 (54) Ekta Bisht 3/32 (9 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 105 (104) Amelia Kerr 1/33 (6 overs) |
* India Women won by 9 wickets McLean Park, Napier Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Tony Gillies (NZ) Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: India Women 2, New Zealand Women 0.

### 2nd WODI

* ICC Women's Championship 29 January 2019 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 161 (44.2 overs) | v | India 166/2 (35.2 overs) |
| Amy Satterthwaite 71 (87) Jhulan Goswami 3/23 (8.2 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 90* (83) Lea Tahuhu 1/16 (6 overs) |
* India Women won by 8 wickets Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Kim Cotton (NZ) Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Ind)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: India Women 2, New Zealand Women 0.

### 3rd WODI

* ICC Women's Championship 1 February 2019 14:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| India 149 (44 overs) | v | New Zealand 153/2 (29.2 overs) |
| Deepti Sharma 52 (90) Anna Peterson 4/28 (10 overs) | | Amy Satterthwaite 66* (74) Poonam Yadav 1/31 (5 overs) |
* New Zealand Women won by 8 wickets Seddon Park, Hamilton Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Ashley Mehrotra (NZ) Player of the match: Anna Peterson (NZ)
* New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Mithali Raj (Ind) became the first woman to play in 200 ODI matches.
* Points: New Zealand Women 2, India Women 0.

## WT20I series
### 1st WT20I

* 6 February 2019 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 159/4 (20 overs) | v | India 136 (19.1 overs) |
| Sophie Devine 62 (48) Deepti Sharma 1/19 (4 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 58 (34) Lea Tahuhu 3/20 (4 overs) |
* New Zealand Women won by 23 runs Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Kim Cotton (NZ) Player of the match: Lea Tahuhu (NZ)
* India Women won the toss and elected to field.
* Caitlin Gurrey, Rosemary Mair (NZ) and Priya Punia (Ind) all made their WT20I debuts.
* Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest fifty by an Indian woman in a WT20I (24 balls).

### 2nd WT20I

* 8 February 2019 15:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| India 135/6 (20 overs) | v | New Zealand 136/6 (20 overs) |
| Jemimah Rodrigues 72 (53) Rosemary Mair 2/17 (4 overs) | | Suzie Bates 62 (52) Arundhati Reddy 2/22 (4 overs) |
* New Zealand Women won by 4 wickets Eden Park, Auckland Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ) and Ashley Mehrotra (NZ) Player of the match: Suzie Bates (NZ)
* New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.

### 3rd WT20I

* 10 February 2019 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard
| New Zealand 161/7 (20 overs) | v | India 159/4 (20 overs) |
| Sophie Devine 72 (52) Deepti Sharma 2/28 (4 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 86 (62) Sophie Devine 2/21 (4 overs) |
* New Zealand Women won by 2 runs Seddon Park, Hamilton Umpires: Kim Cotton (NZ) and Ashley Mehrotra (NZ) Player of the match: Sophie Devine (NZ)
* New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.