India vs New Zealand : India beats New Zealand, now Team India will face Australia in the semi-finals.

India vs New Zealand : India defeated New Zealand by 44 runs in their last match of the league stage at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. With this win, the Indian team has reached the first position in the points table from Group A and now they will face Australia in the semi-finals. India will face Australia in the semi-finals on March 4.

New Zealand did not have a good start while chasing the target of 250 runs given by India and the team lost the wickets of both the openers at the score of 49. But after this Kane Williamson held one end. Kane Williamson kept the team in the run chase by making a partnership of 44 runs for the third wicket with Daryl Mitchell and 40 runs for the fourth wicket with Tom Latham.

However, Indian spinners led by Varun Chakravarthy took wickets at regular intervals and bundled out New Zealand for 205 runs. Kane Williamson was the highest run scorer for New Zealand, who scored 81 runs, while Mitchell Santner scored 28 runs. For India, Varun Chakravarthy took 5 wickets for 42 runs in 10 overs. While Kuldeep Yadav got two wickets.Earlier, thanks to the important innings of Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel, India scored 249 runs for 9 wickets against New Zealand in the Group A match of Champions Trophy 2025 on Sunday. Team India had a bad start after losing the toss and batting first at the International Cricket Stadium in Dubai and lost the wickets of Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for 30 runs in 6.4 overs.

After this, Iyer (79) and Akshar Patel (42) made a crucial partnership of 98 runs for the fourth wicket to bring India back. However, the Blackcaps regained control of the match with the wicket of Akshar and after that gave shocks to India at regular intervals. Hardik Pandya scored 45 runs in the end, but he too could not take India to 250. For the Blackcaps, Matt Henry took 5 wickets for 42 runs.

The playing eleven of both the teams were like this

India Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.

New Zealand Playing XI: Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke.

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