Latham scored 24 runs on debut, batting at number five, in an
ODI against
Zimbabwe in 2012. He made his
Twenty20 International debut against the
West Indies on 30 July, making 15 and 19 in the series. Latham also played in the tour's ODI series but failed to contribute significantly, his highest score being 32. He was recalled against
Bangladesh, where he played a bright innings of 43 while opening the batting, and scored a match-winning 86 off 68 balls during the following tour of Sri Lanka. He made his
Test match debut against India in February 2014, with scores of 29 and 0. He then toured the West Indies with New Zealand in June, playing in all three Tests and two T20s. He had a highly successful Test series, scoring three half-centuries and 288 runs in total, finishing second in the series list of top run scorers, just behind teammate
Kane Williamson. In doing so he helped his team to an overseas series victory. By July 2014 he had claimed the spot of
opener after a run of poor form for incumbents
Hamish Rutherford and
Peter Fulton. His first Test century was achieved against
Pakistan in
Abu Dhabi, on 11 November 2014; he scored 103. Despite his position as an opening batsman in Test matches, Latham was named as a middle-order batsman and backup wicket-keeper to
Luke Ronchi for the
2015 Cricket World Cup. He also shared Test wicket-keeping duties
against England with
BJ Watling, keeping for New Zealand in the first Test at
Lord's following an injury to Watling. When he is not a keeper he generally fields close to the wicket or in the slips. Latham was selected to
tour Zimbabwe in 2015 as an opening batsman. During the second ODI of the series, he scored his maiden ODI century of 110 not out as part of an unbeaten partnership with
Martin Guptill of 236 as New Zealand won the match by 10 wickets to level the series. In the third Test against Australia in
the 2015–16 Trans–Tasman Trophy, the first ever day-night Test match, Latham became the first man to score a fifty in a day-night Test. During the tour he took the only wicket in his high level playing career, a caught behind to dismiss
Ryan Carters who had scored 209 alongside
Aaron Finch's 288 not out in a game that was abandoned due to pitch conditions shortly after the wicket. In
October 2016, while playing against
India at
Dharamshala Latham became the tenth batsman and the first New Zealander to
carry his bat in an ODI. In January 2017 Latham was named as the New Zealand wicket-keeper for the
Chappell-Hadlee series. In the first ODI of that series he equalled New Zealand's record of five dismissals as a wicket keeper in an ODI innings. Due to poor form with the bat, however, he was dropped from the ODI team on 1 March during the series against South Africa. In May 2017 Latham was recalled and named as captain for the
Ireland Tri-Series against Ireland and Bangladesh in Ireland with a number of regular players playing in the
2017 Indian Premier League. In October 2017, Latham was given the wicket-keeping duties against India and moved down to no. 5 due to his ability to play against spin. He scored an unbeaten 103 from 102 balls in the first game of the 3-match series. In December 2017 Latham resumed his role as acting ODI captain against West Indies with Kane Williamson and Tim Southee rested. In May 2018, he was one of twenty players to be awarded a new contract for the 2018–19 season by
New Zealand Cricket. In December 2018,
against Sri Lanka, he made the highest score while
carrying the bat in Test cricket, with 264
not out. In April 2019, he was named in
New Zealand's squad for the
2019 Cricket World Cup. In July 2019, in New Zealand's semi-final match against
India, Latham played in his 150th international match for New Zealand. In January 2020, in the third Test
against Australia, Latham captained New Zealand for the
first time in Test cricket, after
Kane Williamson was ruled out of the match due to flu. In February 2020, in the first and second ODI against India, Latham captained New Zealand to win by 4 Wickets and 22 runs after
Kane Williamson was ruled out of the match due to a shoulder injury. In December 2022, during the
first Test against Pakistan, Latham scored his 13th century in Test cricket, the most by a New Zealand opener in Tests. Latham was named New Zealand Test team captain in October 2024. ==List of international centuries==