Team India will be embarking on their tour of New Zealand, as the Men in Blue are all set to face the challenge posed by the BlackCaps for a multi-format assignment, which is set to get underway on Thursday, October 22.
Both the finalists of the 2026 T20 World Cup will start the tour with five T20Is, the first of which will be played at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch. The fifth and final one will be played on November 01.
The action will then move on to the one-day internationals (ODIs), wherein Indian superstars Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are set to stage their aura across five matches in a squad that will be led by Shubman Gill. Gill, however, will not play the fourth and fifth ODI, and thus, India will be led by Shreyas Iyer. The hosts, on the other hand, will be captained by veteran all-rounder Mitchell Santner across the white-ball series.
The team will then tune to whites to play a couple of Test matches that are a crucial part of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025-27 cycle, with a place in the top two on the line for both sides. Gill will return to action as skipper of the Test squad. The hosts have yet to name their squad for the red-ball fixtures, set to be played in Wellington and Christchurch.
NZ vs IND 2026: Full Squads
New Zealand T20I squad
Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Tim Seifert, Bevon Jacobs, Mitchell Santner (C), Michael Bracewell, Josh Clarkson, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Nathan Smith, Jacob Duffy, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Adam Milne, Blair Tickner
New Zealand ODI squad (1st, 2nd, and 3rd game)
Devon Conway, Tom Latham, Will Young, Mitchell Santner (C), Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Jacob Duffy, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Blair Tickner
New Zealand ODI squad (4th and 5th game)
Finn Allen, Mitchell Hay, Nick Kelly, Tim Seifert, Will Young, Mitchell Santner (C), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Kriston Clarke, Jacob Duffy, Lockie Ferguson, Matthew Fisher, Blair Tickner
New Zealand Test squad
To be announced*
India T20I Squad
Shreyas Iyer [C], Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson [WK], Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan [WK], Tilak Varma [VC], Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Naman Dhir, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav
India ODI squad (1st, 2nd and 3rd game)
Shubman Gill (C), Shreyas Iyer (VC), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul (WK), Ishan Kishan (WK), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, and Prasidh Krishna
India ODI squad (4th and 5th game)
Shreyas Iyer (C), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan (WK & VC), Kumar Kushagra (WK), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Auqib Nabi, and Yash Thakur
India Test squad
Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Dhruv Jurel, Devdutt Padikkal, Sai Sudharsan, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravindra Jadeja, Anshul Kamboj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, and Akash Deep
NZ vs IND 2026: Full Schedule
| Match | Date | Venue | Time (IST) |
| 1st T20I | October 22 | Christchurch | 12:30 PM |
| 2nd T20I | October 24 | Christchurch | 12:30 PM |
| 3rd T20I | October 27 | Wellington | 12:30 PM |
| 4th T20I | October 30 | Auckland | 12:30 PM |
| 5th T20I | November 01 | Hamilton | 12:30 PM |
| 1st ODI | November 04 | Auckland | 7:30 AM |
| 2nd ODI | November 07 | Wellington | 7:30 AM |
| 3rd ODI | November 10 | Hamilton | 7:30 AM |
| 4th ODI | November 13 | Mount Mauganui | 7:30 AM |
| 5th ODI | November 15 | Mount Maunganui | 7:30 AM |
| 1st Test | November 19-23 | Wellington | 3:30 AM |
| 2nd Test | November 27-December 01 | Christchurch | 3:30 AM |
NZ vs IND 2026: Broadcast and Live Streaming
The entire India tour of New Zealand 2026 will be broadcast on linear television in India by Sony Sports Network channels.
The online live streaming for the India tour of New Zealand 2026 will be on SonyLIV (mobile app and website).
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