CT2025 NZ vs IND Playing 11: The 12th match of ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was scheduled to be played between Mitchell Santner-led New Zealand and Rohit Sharma-led India on March 2 in Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.
New Zealand and India have played 118 ODIs so far with India having an edge over New Zealand. India won 60 matches while New Zealand won 50 ODIs with seven matches ended no result.
Virat Kohli will be playing in 300th ODI today. Notably, he scored a century in his 200th ODI appearance against the same opponent in 2017.
Winning the toss, New Zealand captain Mitch Santner said “We’ll have a bowl first, looks like a good wicket. Want to put some pressure early and hopefully it skids on well later. We still want to win, we know we are going to be in Lahore later but our job here is do a job here. Daryl Mitchell comes in, Conway misses this one“.
New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke
On the other hand, India captain Rohit Sharma said ” Was anyway looking to bat first, wanted to see what we could do upfront and then challenge our bowlers since we chased on both games.
Approach will be very similar to the previous games, just trying to do the same things. One change for us – Harshit has been rested, Varun is playing for us. It is all about bowling in partnerships, in both games we have combined to pick 19 wickets. Our spinners have restricted them well and then the seamers have got the wickets”.
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 Chakravarthy
