The Indian spinner Varun Chakravarthy bags the wicket of Glenn Phillips in the finals of the Champions Trophy 2025 played on March 09 in Dubai.
He dismissed Phillips for 34 runs in the 38th over to further haunt injured New Zealand. Varun Chakravarthy broke the 57-run partnership between Glenn Phillips and Daryl Mitchell in the match.
Varun has bagged two wickets in a crucial time-breaking opener partnership and for the fifth stand.
It is worth mentioning that New Zealand has a 3-1 record in ICC knockout matches against India, having won the CT final in 2000, the 2019 World Cup semifinal and the WTC final in 2023. India’s only win came in the 2023 World Cup semifinal played in India.
Varun Chakaravarthy, yet again with the breakthrough!
Glenn Phillips is bowled out for 34 runs.
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Batting first, Rachin Ravindra and Will Young opened the innings while Mohammed Shami opened the attack. The Kiwi openers aimed for a solid start as they put pressure on Indian bowlers Shami and Hardik.
In the 4th over of the inning from Hardik Pandya, Rachin Ravindra scored 16 runs in an over which gave momentum for the Kiwis.
The young all-rounder got two lifelines with Shami and Shreyas Iyer dropping his catch in the seventh over.
India who is desperate for a wicket, introduced Varun Chakravarthy to the bowling in the powerplay who bagged the wicket of Will Young for 15 runs.
Willamson came to bat and the duo posted 69 runs in the powerplay. Kuldeep Yadav who was introduced to bowling in the 11th over, went on to pick the wicket of Rachin Ravindra on the very first ball for 37 runs.
He once again picked a wicket of Kane Williamson in the 13th overs due to which Kiwis lost three wickets for 75 runs.
Tom Latham and Daryl Mitchell are aiming to recover the side for top order collapse to balance the score in the board. By the end of 20 overs, New Zealand scored 101 runs for three wickets.
With the duo slowly building their partnership, Jadeja picked wicket of Tom Latham for 14 runs on a lbw in the 24th over of the match.
Glenn Philiips came to crease and joined Daryl Mitchell helped the side to cross 150 run mark and forged a 57 run partnership.
