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Australia vs New Zealand Scorecard, 2nd T20I, Australia vs New Zealand 2025
Match Info
| Series: | Australia in New Zealand 2025 |
| Date: | Oct 03 2025, Fri - 11:45 AM (IST) |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| City: | Tauranga |
| Venue: | Bay Oval |
| Toss: | New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| New Zealand Playing XI: | Tim Seifert (wk), Devon Conway, Tim Robinson, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Michael Bracewell (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Ben Sears, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy |
| Australia Playing XI: | Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh (c), Matt Short, Tim David, Alex Carey (wk), Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood |
- Australia have won their last four consecutive men’s T20Is against New Zealand after winning only three of their previous seven, equaling the longest winning run of either team in the history of this fixture; their last defeat to the Black Caps was in October 2022.
- Australia have won six of their last seven men’s T20Is against New Zealand in New Zealand including their last four in a row and haven’t lost a meeting against them there since March 2021; indeed, three of their last four such wins have come after they had lost the toss on the day.
- New Zealand have won eight of their last 11 bilateral multi-game men’s T20I series on home soil including their last two in a row, while defeat in this match would see them lose their first home series since a 0-3 loss to Australia in February 2024.
- New Zealand’s six-wicket loss to Australia in the first match of this series was just their fourth loss in 13 men’s T20I matches at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, while a pair of losses in January 2018 and February 2020 are the only time they’ve lost consecutive matches at the venue.
- Australia have won 11 of their last 12 men’s T20Is including their last two in a row and are on a six-game winning streak away from home in the format, batting second and successfully chasing down a target in each of those six away victories.
- Australia dropped four catches (from seven attempts) in the first match of this men’s T20I series against New Zealand, their most dropped attempts in a match since dropping five ag ainst Afghanistan in June 2024; indeed, Australia have a 73% catch success rate since the beginning of August 2025 which better than only Sri Lanka (71%) and Afghanistan (70%) among full member nations.
- Australia have had 87% of their dismissed batters lose their wicket within the first 20 balls of their innings in the last 12 months in men’s T20Is, the highest rate of any full member team in the format and more than 10 percentage points higher than New Zealand (76%).
- Tim Seifert (New Zealand) has scored 40+ runs in four of his last five T20I innings when New Zealand have batted second on the day, scoring 255 runs at an average of 85 across that frame including 66 runs unbeaten against South Africa on July 22, 2025 in his last such innings.
- Tim Robinson (New Zealand) has scored 246 runs at an average of 123 across his five T20I innings in 2025, including an unbeaten 106 runs from 66 balls against Australia in the first match of this series; indeed, he has a career batting average of 79 from three innings at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui which is the highest of any batter to play more than a single innings there.
- Mitchell Marsh (Australia) has either scored 50+ runs or taken a catch in four of his last six T20I matches, including half centuries in each of his last two innings in the format; in fact, he has scored 882 runs at an average of 40.1 across his last 22 T20 innings (for Australia & Lucknow Super Giants).
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