The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is being played between India and New Zealand at the International Cricket Stadium in Dubai. Where New Zealand won the toss and invited Team India to bat first. At the same time, there has been a change in India’s playing eleven in this match. Varun Chakraborty has got a chance in place of Harshit Rana.
On the other hand, there has been a change in the New Zealand team. Derail Mitchell has returned to the team in place of Devon Conway. At the same time, after winning the toss, Kiwi captain Mitchell Santner said that, we will bowl first, it is a good wicket. We want to put some pressure in the beginning. It is expected that later it will move well. We want to win. We know that we want to win. We know that we will later be in Lahore but our job is to do our work here.
At the same time, Team India captain Rohit Sharma said that if the toss was in his favor, he would have decided to bat first. First wanted to bat, wanted to see what we can do in the beginning and then challenge our bowlers because we have chased both matches. Rohit further explained that his strategy will be similar to the previous matches. They will try to play in the same way. All this is about bowling in partnership, in both matches we have taken 19 wickets. Our spinners have stopped them well and then fast bowlers have taken wickets.
Playing XI of both teams
India- Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Akshar Patel, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.
New Zealand- Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Derill Mitchell, Tom Latham, Glenn Philips, Michael Bracewell, Michel Santner (Captain), Matt Henry, Kyle Jameson, William Verorke.
