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ICC Champions Trophy 2025: New Zealand vs India

ICC Championship Trophy 2025: India vs New Zealand

On 2nd Mar. 2025, the twelveth and last match of Group A as New Zealand vs India of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai.

In this match, New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill opened the Indian innings. Shreyas Iyer scored 79 runs as the inning’s highest, followed up by Hardik Pandya, who added 45 runs. India made a total of 249/9 on the scoreboard. Matt Henry took 5 wickets. On the other side, New Zealand got all out at 205 runs in 45.3 overs. Varun Chakravarthy took his 5 wickets by spending 42 runs. Kuldeep Yadav followed him by taking 2 wickets and giving 56 runs.

Team Squads: New Zealand vs India

India

Rohit Sharma (c)
Shubman Gill
Virat Kohli
Shreyas Iyer
Axar Patel
KL Rahul
Hardik Pandya
Ravindra Jadeja
Harshit Rana
Mohammed Shami
Kuldeep Yadav

New Zealand

Will Young
Devon Conway
Kane Williamson
Daryl Mitchell
Tom Latham
Glenn Phillips
Michael Bracewell
Mitchell Santner (c)
Nathan Smith
Matt Henry
Will O’Rourke

Following are the remaining matches in total before concluding the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The complete list of matches with their schedule is listed at this link.

~~19 Feb :: Pakistan vs. New Zealand, National Stadium, Karachi~~

~~20 Feb :: India vs. Bangladesh, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai~~

~~21 Feb :: Afghanistan vs. South Africa, National Stadium, Karachi~~

~~22 Feb :: Australia vs. England, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore~~

~~23 Feb :: India vs. Pakistan, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai~~

~~24 Feb :: Bangladesh vs. New Zealand, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi~~

~~25 Feb :: Australia vs. South Africa, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi~~

~~26 Feb :: Afghanistan vs. England, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore~~

~~27 Feb :: Pakistan vs. Bangladesh, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi~~

~~28 Feb :: Afghanistan vs. Australia, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore~~

~~1 Mar :: South Africa vs. England, National Stadium, Karachi~~

~~2 Mar :: India vs. New Zealand, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai~~

4 Mar :: India vs. Australia, Semi-final 1, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai*

5 Mar :: South Africa vs New Zealand, Semi-final 2, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore**

9 Mar :: Final—Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore ***

Every game begins at 14:00 Pakistan Standard Time

* If India qualify, the first semi-final will include India

** If Pakistan qualify, the second semi-final will include Pakistan

*** If India advances to the final, the final match will be played in the Dubai International Cricket Stadium

ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Australia vs England

ICC Champions Trophy 2025: England vs Australia

Today, on 22nd Feb, in another match of the Championship Trophy 2025, Australia defeated England by 5 wickets at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. England had put up a huge score of 351 runs for 8 wickets in 50 overs. Whereas, Australia chased down the 352-run target in 47.3 overs only and defeated England by 5 wickets. The credit goes to Josh Inglis, who had scored unbeaten 120, not out off 86 balls.

Josh Inglis became the first Australian wicketkeeper to score a century in the ICC Champions Trophy. He scored his hundred in 77 deliveries. He is the third Australian batsman after Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting who scored a century in the tournament.

Australia started weak by losing 3 wickets for a score total of 122. At that point, Inglis came in and hit down all bowlers of his opponent team and stitched a superb 146-run partnership in just 116 balls for the fourth wicket. In the first phase, Ben Duckett of England hit a superb 165 that helped England put a score of 351 on the board.

Here is the list of achievements by Australian batters.

Highest score for Australia keeper batter in ICC Champions Trophy:

106* Josh Inglis vs England, Lahore, 2025

92: Adam Gilchrist vs West Indies, Mumbai, 2006

56: Tim Paine vs India, Centurion, 2009

54: Adam Gilchrist vs Bangladesh, Colombo, 2002

Centuries for Australia in ICC Champions Trophy:

136* Shane Watson vs England, Centurion, 2009

111* Ricky Ponting vs England, Centurion, 2009

105* Shane Watson vs New Zealand, Centurion, 2009

104* Josh Inglis vs England, Lahore, 2025

Australian XI

Matthew Short,
Travis Head,
Steven Smith (c),
Marnus Labuschagne,
Josh Inglis (wk),
Alex Carey,
Glenn Maxwell,
Ben Dwarshuis,
Adam Zampa,
Spencer Johnson,
Nathan Ellis.

England XI

Philip Salt,
Ben Duckett,
Jamie Smith (wk),
Joe Root,
Harry Brook,
Jos Buttler (c),
Liam Livingstone,
Brydon Carse,
Jofra Archer,
Adil Rashid,
Mark Wood

Following are the remaining ten matches in total before concluding the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The complete list of matches with their schedule is listed at this link.

23 Feb :: Pakistan vs. India, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai

24 Feb :: Bangladesh vs. New Zealand, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi

25 Feb :: Australia vs. South Africa, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi

26 Feb :: Afghanistan vs. England, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

28 Feb :: Afghanistan vs. Australia, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore

1 Mar :: South Africa vs. England, National Stadium, Karachi

2 Mar :: New Zealand vs. India, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai

4 Mar :: Semi-final 1, Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai*

5 Mar :: Semi-final 2, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore**

9 Mar :: Final—Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore ***

ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan vs Bangladesh

Today, on 27th Feb, Pakistan was to take on Bangladesh at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Despite the fact that this match result won’t influence the semi-final spots, which have already been locked in by India and New Zealand, both had a dream of winning at least one of their matches. They would be playing for their pride.

Pakistan vs. Bangladesh Abandoned – Rain Wins the Day!

Unfortunately, things have gone worst due to heavy rain in Rawalpindi. Now the umpires’ final verdict has come. The match has been abandoned now. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh will get a point each, but it doesn’t really matter at the level. This match was the second to last match of Group A matches. The last match of Group A remains between India and New Zealand on 2nd March. In Group B, there are left two matches. One is between Afghanistan and Australia, and the last match of this group is between South Africa and England.

Teams Squads

Pakistan

Mohammad Rizwan (c)
Babar Azam
Imam-ul-Haq
Kamran Ghulam
Saud Shakeel
Tayyab Tahir
Faheem Ashraf
Khushdil Shah
Salman Ali Agha
Usman Khan
Abrar Ahmed
Haris Rauf
Mohammad Hasnain
Naseem Shah
Shaheen Shah Afridi

Bangladesh

Nazmul Hossain Shanto (c)
Soumya Sarkar
Tanzid Hasan
Towhid Hridoy
Mushfiqur Rahim
Md Mahmud Ullah
Jaker Ali Anik
Mehidy Hasan Miraz
Rishad Hossain
Taskin Ahmed
Mustafizur Rahman
Parvez Hossain Emon
Nasum Ahmed
Tanzim Hasan Sakib
Nahid Rana

Following are the remaining six matches in total before concluding the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The complete list of matches with their schedule is listed at this link.

~~19 Feb :: Pakistan vs. New Zealand, National Stadium,~~ Karachi