India National Cricket Team vs New Zealand National Cricket Team (IND vs NZ) Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025 Final: New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner has opted to bat first. The Kiwis have been forced to make one change to their playing XI as fast bowler Matt Henry is injured and replaced by Nathan Smith. India are unchanged.
India are into another ICC white-ball final – their third inside two years. New Zealand are playing in their third ICC final in six years (fourth in nearly a decade). India have often run into New Zealand at these global events and lost to them four times in the last eight ICC tournaments. Rohit Sharma and his troops know very well that if there’s one team they should be wary of in the Champions Trophy final, it’s New Zealand. India, unbeaten so far, have smartly used the Dubai conditions to their advantage by packing their playing XI with spinners. New Zealand have spinners of their own to challenge India. They have played each other in the ongoing tournament before and India, riding on a Varun Chakaravarthy’s five-wicket haul, sealed a comfortable victory.
Playing XIs
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
New Zealand: Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (captain), Nathan Smith, Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke