India vs New Zealand
IND vs NZ, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The Champions Trophy in 2025, India and New Zealand met in Dubai on March 2. Although both the teams had already qualified for the semi -finals, but the result of this match made it clear which team would face in the semi -finals. India defeated New Zealand by 44 runs to finish the top in Group-A, winning the third consecutive win in the tournament. With this, it was decided that in the semi -finals, Team India will now face the World Champion Australia while the New Zealand team will take on South Africa.
Batting first, Team India could score 249 runs after losing 9 wickets in 50 overs. Shreyas Iyer scored the most 79 runs. For New Zealand, Matt Henry bowled amazing and showed 5 batsmen from India to the pavilion. Matt Henry made young openers Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami their victims. In response to India’s 249 runs, the New Zealand team collapsed for 205 runs in 45.3 overs. Kane Williamson could play a big innings for New Zealand. He scored 81 runs. Varun Chakraborty contributed significantly in covering New Zealand on such a low score. Varun, while attending the ICC ODI tournament for the first time, showed a big feat to take 5 wickets. In this way, there was a new record in the history of ODI cricket.
Unique record made in ODI
Actually, Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets for 42 runs in 10 overs. At the same time, Matt Henry also dismissed 5 Indian batsmen for 42 runs in 8 overs. In this way, a wonderful record in the history of ODI cricket became. You will be surprised to know that this has happened for the first time in ODI cricket when 2 bowlers took equal wickets in one match. Both Varun and Henry took 5-5 wickets in their bag, giving 42-42 runs. So far, 4852 ODIs have been played and for the first time such a unique view has been seen in a match.
All four teams ready for semi -finals
Let me tell you, the first semi-final match of the Champions Trophy between India and Australia will be played at Dubai International Stadium on March 4, while New Zealand and South Africa will be face to face in the second semi-finals on March 5 at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Now it will be interesting to see which 2 teams manage to make it to the finals.
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