India and New Zealand Champions Trophy 2025 Final highlights. New Zealand Captain Mitchell Santner chose to bat first after winning the toss.
Daryl Mitchell (63) and Michael Bracewell (53*) hit the top runs for the New Zealand. New Zealand hardly manage to post 251 with loss of 7 wickets on board after a perfect start. Spinners done brilliant job in the middle overs to restrict the New Zealand to a low total of 251.
Rohit sharma bring the experienced Varun Chakaravarthy inside the power play. He delivered with taking Will Young on 15 in his very first over. Kuldeep Yadav left arm wrist spinner, take the in form batter Rachin Ravindra on his very first delivery of the spell.
New Zealand loss quick wickets after their batting power play. Ravindra (37) and Williamson (11) fell to Kuldeep Yadav in his first two overs. Daryl Mitchell played very defensive, he played 101 balls and score 63 runs with only 3 fours. Glenn Phillips (34) and Michael Bracewell 53* played late cameo to the innings.
Varun and Yadav bowled well and take 2 wickets to each in their 10 overs spell. Ravindra Jadeja bowled exceptionally well with taking Tom Latham and giving 30 runs only. Axar Patel bowled 8 overs and gives only 29 runs but fail to provide a break through.
Mohammed Shami bowled 9 overs and take the most important Daryl Mitchell but remain expensive with leaking 74 runs. Hardik bowled 3 overs and conceded 30 runs with economy of 10 runs per over. Spinners done pretty good in the most important match.
India start the chase and Sharma hit 1st six of his innings in the very first over of Kyle Jamieson. Sharma and Gill provide a good start to the Indian chase. Rohit Sharma hit 76 runs on 83 balls with help of 3 sixes and 7 fours.
The momentum shifted as India loss their top order batters after giving a perfect start to the chase in the Champions Trophy 2025 Final. Shubman Gill 31 fell to Santner after 18 overs and India were 105/1. Virat Kohli got LBW in very next over with scoring only a single.
India fell some pressure as they were 122/3 after 26 overs. Mitchell Santner and Michael Bracewell take 2 wickets each. Ravindra take one wicket and give 47 runs. Bracewell was the most economical bowler for New Zealand giving only 28 runs in his 10 overs spell.
Shreyas Iyer 48, Axar Patel 29, Hardik Pandya 18, KL Rahul 34* and Jadeja 9* hit some important runs in the chase. India won the Champions Trophy Final for the third time with this victory over New Zealand at Dubai on 9th of March 2025.
Rohit Sharma receives man of the match award on his brilliant knock of 76 runs. Rachin Ravindra became player of the tournament. The tournament is over with India’s 4 wicket win over New Zealand.
