Sports Desk. The last match of the group stage in the Champions Trophy 2025 (Champions Trophy) was played between India and New Zealand (IND vs NZ) at the Dubai International Stadium. In this match, New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, India scored 249 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs. In response, the team of New Zealand was all out for 205 runs in 45.3 overs.
India (Team India) won this match by 44 runs. India will now face Australia in the semi -finals. Talking about the match, India started to bat first after losing the toss. For a score of 30, Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli had returned to the pavilion. This was the 300th match of Virat’s ODI career in which he was dismissed for just 11 runs. After that, Shreyas Iyer and Akshar Patel, who came to bat, handled the innings. There was a 98 -run partnership between the two.
Iyer was dismissed by 79 runs in 98 balls, while Akshar scored 42 runs in 61 balls. KL Rahul, who came down to batting at number six, could not show anything special and was dismissed for 23 runs in 29 balls. Hardik Pandya scored fast in the end over. Hardik was dismissed for 45 runs. Talking about bowling, the most successful bowler for New Zealand was Matt Henry, he took five wickets for 42 runs in 8 overs. Shreyas Iyer scored the most runs for India (Team India).
New Zealand started chasing the target not good. On the score of 17, the Kiwi team received the first blow, when Rachin Ravindra was out. After that Will Young also scored 22 runs. Then Derryl Mitchell and Kane Williamson tried to handle the innings, a 44 -run partnership between the two. In the end, Williamson was also dismissed for 81 runs. The entire Kiwi team was reduced to 205 runs. Talking about bowling, Varun Chakraborty took the highest 5 wickets from India. At the same time, Kuldeep Yadav got 2 wickets.
