New Zealand vs India, 2nd ODI, Nov 7, 2026: form and head-to-head
Match centre
Starts
07:30
Match yet to begin
- Date
- Sat, 7 Nov
- Venue
- Sky Stadium, Wellington
- Round
- 2nd ODI
- Format
- ODI
Before play
- Start time
- 07:30 Sri Lanka time
What the reporting says
Jasprit Bumrah returns to India's Test squad after being withdrawn from the previous WTC series against Sri Lanka.
Rishabh Pant is picked but only subject to fitness, having missed the India A tour of New Zealand with an Irani Trophy injury.
Kuldeep Yadav is recalled after being left out of India's previous Test of this WTC cycle against Sri Lanka.
Kuldeep took only one wicket in the two-match Sri Lanka series, and has 80 wickets in 19 Tests overall.
India are fifth in the 2025-27 WTC table on 51.52 per cent after beating Sri Lanka in the first Test and drawing the second.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar returns to India's T20I side after nearly four years out, ahead of the five-match series starting in Christchurch.
Facts taken from the stories linked beside them, each from a sentence in the original.
