CT2025 IND vs NZ Playing 11: The finals of the Champions Trophy 2025 are set to be played between Rohit Sharma-led India and Mitchell Santner-led New Zealand on March 09 at Dubai International Stadium, Dubai.
While meeting in the group stages, India secured a 44-run victory in the match and remained unbeaten to face Australia in the semi-finals. Meanwhile, the Kiwis secured a stunning win against South Africa in the semi-finals to face India once again.
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— BCCI (@BCCI) March 9, 2025
New Zealand has the upper hand against India when it comes to ICC tournaments. However, in terms of format, they have faced 119 matches in ODIs where India has 61 wins while New Zealand has 50 and seven ended in no result and one ended in a tie.
The highly electrifying clash between these teams has already featured in the 2000 edition’ summit clash where New Zealand won the match by four wickets.
On the other hand, India has the most wins in the recent outings against Kiwis. It will be a high thriller encounter to be featured at Dubai Stadium.
CT2025 IND vs NZ Playing 11
New Zealand won the toss and opted to bat first in the finals of the tournament. Speaking at the toss Mitchell Santner said –
“We’re going to have a bat first. Looks like a pretty good wicket, similar to the one we played India here a week ago.”
“Want to get runs on the board and see what happens. Obviously expected a few blue shirts, great atmosphere, great ground. Going to be slightly different from what we got in Pakistan. We saw how India played and what they got out of it.”
“Hope it slows down a bit later. Different guys have stepped up at different times. You want guys firing from the start and we have done that, as have India. Unfortunately Matt Henry has been ruled out, we’ve got Nathan Smith coming in.”
New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Nathan Smith, Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma said, “We’ve been here enough, batted first and bowled first, don’t really mind batting second. It hasn’t changed much, we’ve chased and won as well.”
“It does give you a lot of confidence, takes the toss away from the game. At the end of the day, what matters is how well you want to play.”
“That’s what we’ve spoken about in the dressing room, not to worry about the toss and to just play well, that’s what we’ve done and we have to do today as well.”
“New Zealand have been a very good team over the past so many years, they tend to play good cricket in ICC tournaments. The challenge for us is to play well against them now. Same team for us.”
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
