IND vs NZ Full Highlights: India Won The Title, Defeated New Zealand In The Final
IND vs NZ, ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Final: India defeated New Zealand by four wickets in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Final.
With this, Team India settled a 25-year-old score with the Kiwis. India once again won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Final title after 12 years. After playing first in the final, New Zealand scored 251 runs.
In Champions Trophy 2025 Final response, Team India scored 254 runs for 6 wickets in 49 overs. Captain Rohit Sharma played the highest innings of 76 runs for India. At the same time, KL Rahul returned unbeaten on 34 runs.
Team India, which came out to chase the target of 252 runs given by New Zealand, got a strong start from the pair of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill. Both of them shared a 105-run partnership for the first wicket and prepared the platform for the team’s victory.
However, after this India suffered three setbacks. But then Axar Patel and Shreyas Iyer came and shared a 61-run partnership for the fourth wicket and took Team India to victory. In the end, Ravindra Jadeja scored the winning runs for India.
For India, captain Rohit Sharma played an innings of 76 runs in 83 balls. While Shreyas Iyer scored 48, KL Rahul remained unbeaten on 34, and Shubman Gill scored 31 runs. For New Zealand, Mitchell Santner took 2 wickets for 46 runs in 10 overs.
Earlier today, after winning the toss and batting first in Dubai, the Kiwi team could only reach 251 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 50 overs. The most successful batsman from the opposition team was Daryl Mitchell, who scored 63 runs in 101 balls. Apart from Mitchell, Michael Bracewell played an unbeaten innings of 53 runs in 40 balls.
The pair of Will Young and Rachin Ravindra gave New Zealand an aggressive start, but as soon as both of them were out, New Zealand’s batting came under pressure. Indian spinners bowled tight between 11 and 41 overs. Varun Chakraborty and Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets each for India.
Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wicket keeper), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (captain), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke.
Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.
