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IND vs NZ Final: India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets to win the Champions Trophy 2025 title. Team India has won the Champions Trophy title again after 12 years. India has hoisted the tricolor in Dubai by capturing an ICC trophy for the second consecutive year. Earlier, the Indian team also won the T20 World Cup title in 2024. Rohit Sharma’s 76 runs, Shreyas Iyer’s 48 runs and Hardik Pandya’s cameo innings of 18 runs in the last overs also contributed significantly to Team India’s victory.
India became world champion for the third time
India has won the Champions Trophy title for the third time in total. Now India has also become the country to win the Champions Trophy the most number of times. Let us tell you that Australia has also won the Champions Trophy twice. India shared the Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka in 2002, then in 2013, Team India won the trophy under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. Now in 2025, India has become the champion of champions for the third time by defeating New Zealand by 5 wickets.
Rohit, Shreyas and…, the whole Team India did wonders
In the final match of Champions Trophy 2025, New Zealand batted first and scored 251 runs on the scoreboard. Daryl Mitchell scored the most runs for the Kiwis, who played an innings of 63 runs. But Team India definitely suffered in the last 10 overs of New Zealand’s innings because the Kiwis scored 79 runs in the last 10 overs. Michael Bracewell played an innings of 53 runs in 40 balls to take New Zealand to 251 runs.
Chasing the target of 252 runs, Team India got a great start from Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill. There was a brilliant partnership of 105 runs between Rohit and Gill. Gill scored 31 runs and Rohit Sharma scored 76 runs. Team India was under pressure after the wickets of Gill and Virat fell, in such a situation, Shreyas Iyer reduced the pressure on the Indian team by playing an innings of 48 runs. In the last overs, Hardik Pandya played a short but very important innings of 18 runs. KL Rahul also made a comparable contribution of 34 runs.
India’s 25-year-old revenge completed
With this victory, India has also completed its 25-year-old revenge from New Zealand because New Zealand won the title by defeating India in the final of the 2000 Champions Trophy. In the year 2000, when the final match of both the teams took place, Sourav Ganguly played a century innings of 117 runs for India. But Chris Cairns’ unbeaten innings of 102 runs was heavy on the Indian team. This time no century was scored in Dubai, but Ravindra Jadeja ensured India’s victory by hitting the winning shot in the form of a four.
At one time the match was in New Zealand’s bag, then the game turned around like this; Know the 3 important moments of the final match
India has won the final of the 2025 Champions Trophy. Team India won the title match by 4 wickets. Although the final match was mostly in India’s hands, but there was also a time when the match turned towards New Zealand. Here we will tell you about the 3 most important moments of the final match.
1- Initial 3 important wickets taken within just 18 runs
Playing first, New Zealand had an explosive start. Rachin Ravindra was attacking the Indian fast bowlers. He was hitting fours and sixes very easily. New Zealand’s score had crossed 50 before seven overs. It seemed that the Kiwi team was in the mood to score 300 runs, and the score would cross 270, but then the first wicket fell at a score of 57 in the 8th over and then India took 3 wickets at an interval of 18 runs. With no wicket at 57, New Zealand’s score became 75 for 3.
2- No runs were scored in 11 to 30 overs and wickets kept falling
India had made a great start chasing the target of 252 runs. But between 20 to 30 overs, New Zealand’s spinners dominated. The score was 100 in 18 overs, but when Rohit was out in the 27th over, the score was only 122 runs. When India lost the third wicket at 122 in the 27th over, the match turned in the Kiwi team’s favor, but Shreyas Iyer did not let the pressure dominate. However, as soon as Rohit was out, Iyer got a lifeline, if Iyer had been out at that time, the pressure could have dominated Team India.
3- Only 32 runs were left in the last five overs
The pressure of the final match is different. In such a situation, all the teams want that they should not need too many runs in the last overs. Team India did something similar. The Indian team needed only 32 runs in the last five overs against New Zealand. In such a situation, there was no pressure on Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul. That is why India won the match easily with 6 balls remaining.
