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India vs New Zealand Final: The final match of the 2025 Champions Trophy is to be played today. Teams of India and New Zealand will face each other in the title match. This match will be played at Dubai International Stadium. The toss of the final match will be at 2 pm according to Indian time, while the match will start at 2:30 pm.
If we look at the teams of India and New Zealand and the pitch of Dubai, then Team India is the favorite in the final match, but the Kiwi team has a 100 percent record against India in the final of the ICC tournament. In such a situation, captain Rohit Sharma will not make the mistake of taking New Zealand lightly at all. The New Zealand team has defeated India in the final of the Champions Trophy in 2000 and in the WTC final.
India vs New Zealand Match Pitch Report
It is being told that the same pitch on which the match of India and Pakistan was held, has been prepared for the India vs New Zealand final match. Talking about the pitch, the batsmen will have to face a lot of challenges here. The pitch will be slow, spinners will get good help here. Fast bowlers can also trouble the batsmen. Although fast runs can be scored here in the beginning, but in the middle order, one will have to rely more on singles and doubles.
Dew will not play any role in Dubai, so the captain who wins the toss can decide to bat first. Although chasing the runs here is also not very difficult, but if the team batting first scores 290-300, then it will be very difficult for the team batting in the second innings to achieve the target.
India’s playing XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakraborty.
New Zealand’s playing XI: Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (captain), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson and Will Oruk.
Team India has won the Champions Trophy 2025 title. Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has lifted the second trophy within 9 months. After winning the T20 World Cup 2024 title, Team India won the Champions Trophy again after 12 years under the captaincy of Rohit. In the final played on Sunday 9 March at the Dubai International Stadium, Team India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets with the help of excellent bowling and captain Rohit Sharma’s strong innings. With this, Team India also avenged the defeat from New Zealand in the final of the same tournament 25 years ago. Along with this, it also made a record of winning this trophy the most number of times.
About 9 months ago, under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, Team India ended the drought that had been going on for years by winning the T20 World Cup title. That victory not only ended the wait but also increased the hunger of Team India. Its effect was seen in the Champions Trophy, where again Rohit’s team performed strongly throughout the tournament and captured the title without losing a single match.
Spinners put a check on the batsmen
Once again Indian captain Rohit Sharma lost the toss at the Dubai International Stadium but the result was the same as it was after losing the toss in the last 4 matches. Once again the Indian spinners put a check on the pace of runs and brought success to the team. Varun Chakravarthy (2/45) gave the first success while the real magic was done by Kuldeep Yadav (2/40). Kuldeep, who was facing criticism for the lack of consistency in his bowling throughout the tournament, bowled Rachin Ravindra (37) on the very first ball. Then in the very next over he also got the wicket of Kane Williamson.
After this, Daryl Mitchell (63) handled the New Zealand innings, while he also got support from Glenn Phillips (34). But the New Zealand team could have collapsed a little more quickly if Team India had not dropped the catches of these two batsmen. Overall, India dropped 4 catches in this final. Still, the Indian spinners did not let New Zealand take much advantage of them with tight bowling. In the end, Michael Bracewell played an innings of 53 runs (not out) in just 40 balls and took the team to a match-worthy score of 251 runs.
Rohit showed his flair in the final
Team India expected and needed a big innings from their captain Rohit in this final. No big innings came out of Rohit’s bat in the entire tournament and he could not even score a half-century in the final matches. Also, speculations about his retirement were constantly going on. Rohit (76) took full advantage of this opportunity and with his aggressive style pushed New Zealand on the backfoot right from the beginning. Rohit scored a quick half-century and then made a century partnership with Shubman Gill (31).
Team India suffered two quick blows here and after Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli (1) also returned to the pavilion. Soon captain Rohit also lost his wicket. From here, Shreyas Iyer (48) and Akshar Patel made a comeback for the team by making a partnership of 61 runs. Shreyas missed the half-century and Akshar Patel (29) also returned to the pavilion shortly. But KL Rahul (34 not out) and Hardik Pandya brought the team very close to victory. Hardik was out just before victory but Rahul along with Ravindra Jadeja took a sigh of relief only after winning the title for the team.
