India vs New Zealand Tests 2024: NZ Win 3-0 — First-Ever NZ Test Series Win in India, India All Out for 46 (Lowest Home Total), Santner Player of Series, Sarfaraz 150 Bengaluru
New Zealand won the 2024 India Test series 3-0 — the first Test series win by New Zealand in India ever, and India's first home Test series defeat since England in 2012. 1st Test Bengaluru: NZ won 8 wickets — India all out for 46 (lowest ever home total; Henry 5/15, O'Rourke 4/22) but then scored 462 2nd innings (Sarfaraz 150, Pant 99). 2nd Test Pune: NZ won 113 runs; Santner 13/157 (7/53 + 6/104). 3rd Test Mumbai Wankhede: NZ won 25 runs. Mitchell Santner won Player of the Series. Washington Sundar took 16 series wickets for India. Rohit Sharma captained India; Tom Latham captained New Zealand.
New Zealand won the 2024 India Test series 3-0 — the first Test series win by New Zealand in India in history, and India's first home Test series defeat since England won in 2012. 1st Test M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru (Oct 16-20): NZ won 8 wickets — NZ 402 (Rachin Ravindra 134, Conway 91) & 110/2; IND 46 (Henry 5/15, O'Rourke 4/22) & 462 (Sarfaraz 150, Pant 99). India's 46 all out was their lowest-ever home Test total. 2nd Test Pune (Oct 24-26): NZ won 113 runs — NZ 259 & 255; IND 156 & 245. Santner 13/157 (7/53 + 6/104). 3rd Test Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai (Nov 1-3): NZ won 25 runs — IND 263 & 121 (chasing 147); NZ 235 & 174. Mitchell Santner won Player of the Series. Washington Sundar took 16 series wickets for India. India's first home 3-0 whitewash since West Indies in 1983-84. Rohit Sharma captained India; Tom Latham captained New Zealand.
India 46 All Out at Bengaluru: Lowest Ever Home Test Total, Then 462 Second Innings
India being bowled out for 46 at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru — their lowest-ever home total in Test cricket, surpassing their previous worst home bilateral score — gave the 1st Test its opening match-day bilateral shock: Matt Henry taking 5/15 and William O'Rourke taking 4/22 to dismiss India for 46 in their 1st innings against New Zealand's 402 (Rachin Ravindra 134, Devon Conway 91 in NZ's 1st innings). India's 46 all out (below NZ's 402 by 356 runs, required to follow on) confirmed the Bengaluru bilateral pitch's seam-assistance in the 1st innings conditions before India's 2nd innings (462, with Sarfaraz Khan's 150 and Rishabh Pant's 99 confirming the batting recovery that NZ's seam bowling had prevented in the 1st innings). Despite India scoring 462 in their follow-on 2nd innings — a recovery from 46 all out that gave the bilateral's 1st Test its individual batting landmark from Sarfaraz (150) and Pant (99) — NZ winning 8 wickets (chasing 110/2 in their 2nd innings) confirmed that India's 462 2nd innings recovery, while historically notable, could not prevent the bilateral loss that their 46 1st innings had put beyond recovery.
Santner 13/157 at Pune and NZ's 3-0 Historic Sweep
Mitchell Santner's 13/157 in the 2nd Test at Pune — 7/53 in India's 1st innings and 6/104 in India's 2nd innings, the third-best match figures by any visiting bowler in India in Tests — gave the bilateral's most dominant bowling performance to NZ's left-arm spinner: Santner dismissing India's batting twice (156 1st innings, 245 2nd innings) against NZ's 259 and 255 bilateral scores, giving NZ their 113-run 2nd Test win that followed the Bengaluru 8-wicket bilateral opening win. The 3rd Test at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai — NZ winning by 25 runs (India chasing 147 and falling for 121 in their 2nd innings: the third successive bilateral result going to NZ as India's batting collapsed in the chase) — confirmed NZ's 3-0 sweep and the bilateral's historical result: the first NZ Test series win in India (in any form, across all previous bilateral visits by New Zealand to India since NZ's first India bilateral in 1955) and India's first home 3-0 bilateral whitewash since West Indies toured India in 1983-84.
India vs NZ Tests 2024 in Context
New Zealand's 3-0 Test series win in India October-November 2024 — NZ's first bilateral series win in India (India 46 all out Bengaluru lowest home; Henry 5/15; O'Rourke 4/22; Sarfaraz 150 and Pant 99 in 462 recovery; Santner 13/157 Pune match figures; NZ winning 8 wickets, 113 runs, 25 runs respectively; Sundar 16 India bilateral wickets; first India home whitewash since WI 1983-84) — confirmed the bilateral upset of the 2024-25 WTC cycle: a NZ bilateral tour that arrived in India between India's England bilateral win (4-1, Jaiswal 712 runs in Jan-Mar 2024) and India's subsequent WTC Final campaign, producing the bilateral result that NZ's bilateral history in India (spanning bilateral visits since the 1950s without a bilateral series win) had not previously achieved. India's response — hosting England again in 2024 and playing the subsequent bilateral programme — confirmed that the NZ bilateral result was the bilateral shock that the 2024-25 Indian bilateral programme contained.
Frequently asked questions
Who won the India vs New Zealand Test series in 2024?
New Zealand won the 2024 India Test series 3-0 — the first-ever NZ Test series win in India. India's 46 all out at Bengaluru was their lowest-ever home Test total (Henry 5/15, O'Rourke 4/22). Santner won Player of the Series (13/157 at Pune — 7/53 + 6/104). NZ won by 8 wkts (Bengaluru), 113 runs (Pune), and 25 runs (Mumbai). Rohit captained India; Latham captained NZ.