Stats - Rohit's India make history, but of the unwanted kind

1 - It's the first instance of India being whitewashed at home in a Test series of three or more matches. India were blanked in a Test series at home only twice before - 2-0 by South Africa in 2000 and 1-0 by England in 1980.

This is also the first instance of India losing three Tests in a series at home since 1983. India had suffered three defeats (in longer series) five times between 1958 and 1980.

1 - This is the first time New Zealand have won three matches in a Test series.

31-1 - India's win-loss record while chasing targets of 200 or fewer runs in Tests at home. The defeat in Mumbai was the first for India. The previous lowest target was 221 against Pakistan in 1987 in Bengaluru (then Bangalore).

2 - This is also the second-lowest target they failed to chase down in a loss - the lowest is 120 against West Indies in 1997 in Bridgetown, where they were bowled out for 81.

It is also the second-lowest target that New Zealand have defended successfully in Tests. The lowest is 137 against England in Wellington in 1978, which they won by 72 runs.

4 - Number of defeats (in ten home Tests) for India in 2024, the joint-highest for them - it also happened in 1969.

Rohit Sharma now has five Test defeats at home as captain, the second-highest for India behind MAK Pataudi's nine, which included the four losses in 1969.

25 - Wickets for Ajaz Patel in the two Tests he has played at the Wankhede Stadium, the most by any bowler at a venue against India in India. The previous highest was 22 for Ian Botham, also at the Wankhede.

8 - Bowlers with two ten-wicket match hauls at an away venue, including Ajaz at the Wankhede. Shane Warne was the last of the previous seven; he had two ten-wicket match hauls in four Tests at The Oval.

1 - Ajaz and Ravindra Jadeja combined for the first instance of four five-wicket hauls by left-arm bowlers (spinners or otherwise) in a Test match.

Only once before did two left-arm bowlers have ten-wicket hauls in the same Test - Iqbal Qasim and Ray Bright in the 1980 Karachi Test between Pakistan and Australia.

7.1 - The point at which India lost their fifth wicket, the earliest in a Test innings in India since 1998. The previous mark was at 8.2 overs, also against New Zealand in 1999 in Mohali.

13.3 - Rohit Sharma's batting average across ten Test innings in this home season, the second-lowest for a captain in a home Test season (minimum of eight innings in the top seven). The lowest is by Nasser Hussain, who averaged 10.22 across six home Tests in 2000.

2 - India batters to complete their fifties at better than a run-a-ball in both innings of a Test match: Yashasvi Jaiswal against Bangladesh in Kanpur earlier this season, and Rishabh Pant in this Test.