IND vs NZ: Team India won the Champions Trophy title for the third time, took 25-year-old revenge from New Zealand
IND vs NZ Final: In the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final, the Indian team, captained by Rohit Sharma, defeated the New Zealand team by 4 wickets to win this trophy for the third time. In 49 overs, the Indian team reached their 252-run target in the championship game.
Ankush Pandey
IND vs NZ Final: Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has succeeded in winning this trophy for the third time by defeating the New Zealand team by 4 wickets in the final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. In this title match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the New Zealand team decided to bat first after winning the toss, after which they were successful in scoring 251 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 50 overs.
At the same time, the opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave a great start to Team India, who came out to chase the target, but after this, the Kiwi team made a comeback in the match due to sudden fall of wickets. However, in the end, the pair of KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya played carefully and took the team towards victory, but when the Indian team needed 11 runs to win, Hardik was out after scoring 18 runs before that. After this, KL Rahul along with Ravindra Jadeja returned after giving victory to the Indian team in 49 overs.
Rohit-Gill gave a good start
The Indian team got a target of 252 runs in the final match against New Zealand, after which the opening pair of captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, who came to start the innings for Team India, scored 64 runs without any loss in the first 10 overs. After this, while Rohit continued to score runs at a fast pace from one end, Shubman Gill was seen playing cautiously on the other side. There was a partnership of 105 runs between the two for the first wicket, in which Gill scored 31 runs.
New Zealand's spin bowlers helped their team come back in the match
While Mitchell Santner made Shubhman Gill his victim, everyone expected a big inning from Virat Kohli, who came to bat after that, but he was out LBW after scoring just one run on Michael Bracewell's ball and returned to the pavilion. From here Shreyas Iyer and captain Rohit Sharma tried to handle the innings, but while trying to play a big shot on Rachin Ravindra's ball, Rohit Sharma was stumped out on a personal score of 76 and returned to the pavilion. Team India lost its third wicket on a score of 122.
Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel together handled the innings
After three quick blows, Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel together handled the innings of Team India; both of them together made a partnership of 61 runs in 75 balls for the fourth wicket and helped Team India to come back in this match. While Shreyas Iyer got out after playing an inning of 48 runs in this match, Axar Patel scored 29 runs.
KL Rahul once again returned to the pavilion unbeaten after giving victory
KL Rahul returned to Team India's victory by playing an unbeaten innings of 34 runs in the final match of ICC Champions Trophy 2025. During this, he also got the support of Hardik Pandya, who managed to play an important innings of 18 runs. On the other hand, if we talk about the bowlers of the Kiwi team, then Michael Bracewell and Mitchell Santner managed to take 2-2 wickets.
Mitchell and Bracewell showed amazing performance in New Zealand's innings
If we talk about the batting performance of the Kiwi team in the final match, then half-century innings were seen from the bat of Daryl Mitchell and Michael Bracewell. While Daryl Mitchell played an innings of 63 runs, an unbeaten innings of 53 runs was seen from the bat of Michael Bracewell, on the basis of which the Kiwi team managed to reach the score of 251 runs in the final match.
