In the eighteenth match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, India will take on New Zealand at Trent Bridge in Nottingham today. India has two wins from two matches while New Zealand has three wins from three matches.

Team India has had a great start of their CWC 2019 campaign and will look to maintain their momentum against New Zealand as well. In the first two matches, they played as a collective unit. Both openers have got one hundred each, captain Virat Kohli scored in the 80s, Hardik Pandya and MS Dhoni fired with good cameos. In the bowling, Jasprit Bumrah and Yuzvendra Chahal have been excellent and Bhuvneshwar Kumar too has done well and only Kuldeep Yadav had an off day. Though the injury to Shikhar Dhawan is a setback they have good enough players to replace him.

On the other hand, New Zealand too has had a great start with three wins from three matches but two of the matches were against weak teams and India match will be a real test for them. New Zealand bowlers Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, and James Neesham are in great form and will look to create problems for Indian batsmen with their pace and bounce. In the batting Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson, and Ross Taylor all have got the fifties but they haven't been tested yet against a good bowling line up. Overall it should be a good contest between two good sides. 

All the major stats and facts ahead of match eighteen between India and New Zealand in Trent Bridge :

Head to Head in ODIs -

Matches - 106

India won - 55

New Zealand won - 45

Tied - 1

No results - 5

1 - It will be the first match between India and New Zealand in the ODI World Cup since 2003. 

3 - India has three wins from six ODIs while New Zealand has only two wins from seven ODIs at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. 

4-1 India beat New Zealand by 4-1 in the five-match ODI series they played in New Zealand earlier this year in January. 

7 - India and New Zealand have played 7 matches against each other in ODI World Cups, of which India won 3 and New Zealand won 4.

20 - Mohammad Shami has taken 20 wickets at an average of 22.70 in just 9 ODIs against New Zealand. 

24 - Both Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Trent Boult have taken 24 wickets each in ODIs this year - the joint second most wickets after Pat Cummins (26) in this year so far.  

1302 - Virat Kohli has scored 1302 runs at an average of 68.52 in 22 ODI innings with 5 hundreds and 7 fifties against New Zealand. 

11000 - Virat Kohli needs 57 more runs to achieve the milestone of 11000 ODI runs.