Champions Trophy 2025: India beat New Zealand

In the Champions Trophy group match, India defeated New Zealand by 44 runs. In response to India's 250 runs in the match played in Dubai, the entire New Zealand team was bundled out for 205 runs. Veteran Kane Williamson's 81-run resistance innings also went in vain. Captain Mitchell Santner scored 28 runs and Will Young scored 22 runs. India's Varun Chakraborty stunned the batsmen with his spinning balls. They sent 5 players to the pavilion. Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets, Pandya, Aksharaptil and Jadeja took one wicket each. The Indian team will face Australia in the first semi-final on Tuesday. New Zealand won the toss and invited India to bat first, who scored 249 runs for the loss of 9 wickets, with Shreyas Iyer 79, Pandya 45 and Akshar Patel scoring 42. Matt Henry took 5 wickets for 42 runs while Jamieson, Ravindra, Santner and O'Rourke took one each. On the occasion of the toss, the Kiwi captain said that there has been a change in the team, Daryl Mitchell is playing in place of Conway in the team, the wicket is looking good and they will try to get India out early. On the other hand, Indian team captain Rohit Sharma said that we would have won the toss and batted, a change has also been made in the Indian team, Warren Chakraborty has been included in the team instead of Harshit Rana. This match between New Zealand and Indian team is also important because after its result the position of the teams on the points table will be clear, after this match it will be known which team will compete with whom in the semi-finals. The team that wins today's match will compete against Australia in the semi-finals, while the team that loses today's match will play against South Africa in the semi-finals. The semi-final team of the tournament has been decided, India, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa have reached the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.