Match Details
Date: March 9, 2025
Time: 2:30 PM IST
Venue: Dubai International Stadium, Dubai
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Preview
India will be playing in their third Champions Trophy against New Zealand at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday, March 9, in the 2025 edition of the tournament. After winning four matches in a row, including a group stage win over New Zealand, the Indian cricket team will be confident to get the better of the Black Caps one more time, to become the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 winners. Meanwhile, New Zealand will need to put together a better performance against the Men in Blue on Sunday, to give themselves the best chance of winning the title.
Pitch Report
The pitches at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium have been worn down considerably with regular cricket this season, and during the Sunday’s final of the Champions Trophy, India and New Zealand could be playing on yet another slow surface. If the pitch is going to be conducive for spin bowling in the final of the tournament, then it’s highly likely that the contest is going to be a low-scoring one.
Team Analysis
India
The Indian batting lineup has been exemplary on tough batting pitches of Dubai during the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, scoring above par totals on a regular basis with consistent performances from the likes of Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, and Axar Patel in particular. Mohammed Shami has managed to pick up early wickets for India in the tournament, but much of the damage has been done by the spinners Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, and Varun Chakravarthy.
Champions Trophy 2025 Squad of India
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Rishabh Pant (wk), Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh.
New Zealand
Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson have been a class above the rest of the New Zealand batting lineup in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, but some decent contributions from rest of the batters in the lineup have come quite handy for them. In the bowling department, captain Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry have taken the majority of the wickets for New Zealand, while the other bowlers have chipped-in with key scalps of their own.
Champions Trophy 2025 Squad of New Zealand
Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell (c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Will O'Rourke, Jacob Duffy, Nathan Smith, Devon Conway, Mark Chapman.
Match Prediction
Conclusion
With the Indian cricket team on a seven-match winning streak in ODIs, the chances of them clinching the Champions Trophy are quite high, but at the same time, New Zealand have been quite a tough opponent for them in ICC knockouts throughout history.
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