India and New Zealand will play the final group-stage match of 2025 Champions Trophy on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium on March 2. Each the groups have been unbeaten within the event thus far and this might be a battle to take the highest spot within the group.
The final time these two groups confronted in an ICC event was the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 the place the 2 sides performed a high-scoring semi-final on the Wankhede Stadium. The winner of March 2 conflict will face Australia whereas the loser might be up towards South Africa.
Toss Replace
New Zealand gained the toss and determined to bowl first. They introduced in Daryl Mitchell rather than Devon Conway. Then again the Indian staff additionally made an fascinating change by bringing in Varun Chakravarthy rather than Harshit Rana.
Varun Chakarvarthy joins rather than Harshit Rana
Rohit Sharma confirmed that the staff has determined to relaxation Harshit Rana changed the pacer with thriller spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who might be making his debut in a 50-over ICC occasion. The Indian staff will go into the match with 4 spin choices within the type of Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja and Chakravarthy.
What did the captains say on the toss?
Rohit Sharma (India)
Was anyway seeking to bat first, wished to see what we may do upfront after which problem our bowlers since we chased on each video games. Strategy might be similar to the earlier video games, simply making an attempt to do the identical issues. One change for us – Harshit has been rested, Varun is enjoying for us. It’s all about bowling in partnerships, in each video games we’ve mixed to select 19 wickets. Our spinners have restricted them properly after which the seamers have gotten the wickets.
Mitchell Santner (New Zealand)
We’ll have a bowl first, appears to be like like a superb wicket. Need to put some strain early and hopefully it skids on properly later. We nonetheless wish to win, we all know we’re going to be in Lahore later however first activity is to do a job right here, and problem ourselves in several situations. Daryl Mitchell is available in, Conway misses this one.
Taking part in XIs:
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.
New Zealand:
Will Younger, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke.
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