Australia vs New Zealand Scorecard, 1st T20I, Australia vs New Zealand 2025
Result · Oct 01 2025, Wed - 11:45 AM (IST)
NEW ZEALAND181/6
AUSTRALIA185/4
Australia won by 6 wickets
CRR:11.21
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Australia in New Zealand 2025 |
| Date: | Oct 01 2025, Wed - 11:45 AM (IST) |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| City: | Tauranga |
| Venue: | Bay Oval |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Tim Seifert (wk), Devon Conway, Tim Robinson, Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Bevon Jacobs, Michael Bracewell (c), Zak Foulkes, Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry, Jacob Duffy |
| Australia Playing XI: | Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Matt Short, Tim David, Alex Carey (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Ben Dwarshuis, Xavier Bartlett, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood |
- This is set to be the fourth multigame bilateral men’s T20I series between New Zealand and Australia; each of the previous three iterations has seen a different result (February 2010 1-1 draw, March 2021 3-2 New Zealand, February 2024 3-0 Australia).
- New Zealand have lost only one of their last 11 multigame bilateral men’s T20I series (W5 D5) and have won each of their last two; the last time the Black Caps recorded a longer winning run in such series was a span of four from July to August in 2022.
- Australia have lost only one of their last nine multigame bilateral men’s T20I series (W7 D1) and have won each of their last three; the last time they recorded a longer winning run in such series was a span of four from February 2019 to February 2020.
- New Zealand have won their last four men’s T20Is at Bay Oval; a fifth consecutive win in this match would be their outright longest winning run at the venue (also W4 from January 2016 to January 2018) – this will be the Black Caps’ first meeting against Australia at the venue in the format.
- Australia have made a strong connection on 23% of their balls faced in men’s T20Is in 2025, the highest rate of any Test playing country this year; indeed, their collective batting strike rate (158.4) is the best of any team this year.
- New Zealand have a batting dot ball rate of 32% in men’s T20Is in 2025, the best of any Test playing country this year; in addition, the Black Caps’ collective batting average (32.3) is the best of any full-member team.
- Tim David (Australia) has scored 289 runs at an average of 72.3 across his last six T20I innings; he is 75 away (925) from becoming the 10th player to score 1,000 runs for Australia in the history of the men’s format.
- New Zealand trio Kyle Jamieson (33.3% of 48 balls bowled), Rachin Ravindra (33.3% of 24 balls bowled) and Jacob Duffy (25.9% of 220 balls bowled) have had batters play and miss at a higher percentage of their deliveries than any other players from Test playing countries in men’s T20Is in 2025 (min. 20 balls bowled).
- Mitchell Marsh (27) is one away from equaling George Bailey (28) for the second most appearances as captain of Australia in men’s T20Is (Aaron Finch – 76); Marsh (W23) has already recorded the second most wins as captain of Australia in the history of the format (Aaron Finch – W40).
- Tim Seifert has scored 27% of New Zealand’s runs when he’s played in men’s T20Is in 2025, the second-best rate of any player (min. 2 innings) for a Test playing country this year (Abhishek Sharma – 32.6% for India).