
Samira Vishwas
Tezzbuzz|14-11-2026
Delhi: In the fourth ODI against the New Zealand cricket team, the Indian team had to face such a shameful defeat, which will hurt the Indian fans for a long time. In the match played on Friday at Bay Oval, the host team had to face defeat against India by 244 runs. With this victory, New Zealand has kept itself alive in the five-match series. However, the Indian team is still ahead 2-1 in the series and has a chance to win the series by winning the last match.
In this match, New Zealand batted first and scored a big score of 333 runs after losing all the wickets. Will Young batted brilliantly and scored 125 runs in 108 balls. At the same time, Tim Seifert played an innings of 58 runs facing 48 balls.
The Indian team, which came to chase the target of 334 runs, came under pressure from the very beginning. Matt Henry took three wickets in the first over without giving any runs. He did not even give a chance to Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer to open their accounts. After this, the Indian batting could not maintain itself and the entire team was reduced to just 89 runs in 26.4 overs. Henry took a total of 6 wickets and became the player of the match.
With this crushing defeat, many unwanted records were registered in the name of the Indian team. Let us know about those 5 records, which Team India would hardly want to remember.
The 244-run defeat against New Zealand is India's second biggest defeat in ODI cricket. The Indian team remained just 2 runs away from its worst record in this matter.
India's biggest defeat in ODI was against Sri Lanka in Sharjah in 2000. In that match, Team India had to face defeat by 245 runs. In the final of Coca-Cola Champions Trophy, Sri Lanka had scored 299 runs while batting first. In reply, the Indian team was all out for just 54 runs in 26.3 overs. The defeat against New Zealand was the sixth time in ODIs when India had to face defeat by a margin of 200 or more runs.
Kiwi bowlers broke the back of Indian batting in the beginning itself. By the end of the first 10 overs, Team India had scored only 26 runs and lost 4 wickets. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Ruturaj Gaikwad had returned to the pavilion.
This was only the second time in ODI cricket, when the Indian team lost its first 4 wickets within 10 overs. Earlier, India's situation was like this against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup. In that match, Team India had lost 4 wickets for just 9 runs.
In the fourth ODI against New Zealand, Rohit Sharma was out on the very first ball of the Indian innings. He returned to the pavilion without opening the account. Along with this, an unwanted record was also added to his name.
Rohit has reached joint second place in the list of Indian batsmen who were dismissed on the first ball of the ODI innings. He has been out like this once so far. Apart from them, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Manoj Prabhakar have also lost their wicket once each on the first ball of the innings.
Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag are at the forefront of this list. Both the batsmen were out 3-3 times on the first ball of the ODI innings.
Matt Henry wreaked such havoc in the first over of the Indian innings that Team India's score became 3 wickets for 0 runs. India became the fourth team in the history of ODI cricket, which lost its first 3 wickets without scoring any runs. Before this, this has also happened with the teams of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Australia.
The fourth ODI against New Zealand was also special for Shreyas Iyer. In the absence of Shubman Gill, he was given the captaincy of the Indian team. This was his first match as captain in ODI cricket.
But this was not a good start for Shreyas. He was out on the very first ball of his innings without opening the account. With this, an unwanted record was registered in his name. Shreyas became the first Indian player to be out for a duck in the debut match of ODI captaincy.
By how many runs did India lose in the fourth ODI against New Zealand?
The Indian team had to face defeat by 244 runs in the fourth ODI against New Zealand.
Which unwanted records did India make in the fourth ODI?
India made unwanted records like its second biggest defeat in ODI, losing 4 wickets within 10 overs and losing the first 3 wickets without scoring any runs.




