NZ vs BAN 6th Match Live Streaming – ICC CT25 February 24, 2025
In the sixth match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Bangladesh and New Zealand will face off against each other. At this point, both teams have played one of their group matches. This will be the first match of the Champions Trophy 2025 in Rawalpindi. Check the complete preview of the Bangladesh vs New Zealand game here.
Bangladesh vs New Zealand Champions Trophy Match Preview
Bangladesh’s best chance to pick a win here is against New Zealand as they can strangle the opposition with their spin attack. Despite the pitch at Rawalpindi is supportive for the batters and for the pacemen, so in that context, New Zealand will have the upper hand. Bangladeshโs main weapon is spin bowling. So in simple words, itโs a battle between Kiwi pacers and Bengali spinners.
The champion of the 2000 CT event New Zealand have got plenty of fire power in their batting firepower lineup and they have got good pacers as compared to the Bangladesh side. New Zealand’s last group match will be against Team India in the United Arab Emirates. So New Zealand would look to win against Bangladesh because India will offer more competition to them as India is a relatively better side.
Since this will be the first match at Rawalpindi, it is hard to predict how the pitch will behave like but if there is even the slightest of assistance present for the spinners, Bangladesh will have the edge in this game otherwise New Zealand will start this game as favorites
Bangladesh vs New Zealand Champions Trophy Playing XI
Bangladesh
Bangladesh will look to play all of their three Frontline Pacers on this track that is Nahid Rana Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed. They can also go one step forward and play a fourth pacer in the form of Tanzim Hassan Sakib. The batting line would be the same as in the previous contests.
Tanzid Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto (capt), Mushfiqur Rahim (WK), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Mahmudullah, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain/Tanzim Hassan Sakib, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman and Nasum Ahmed.
New Zealand
New Zealand has picked horses for courses for this mega event. They have opted for Rachin Ravindra who showed his batting skills against spinners in the past with Mark Chapman who can neutralize the spinners with sweeps and reverse sweeps in the middle overs.
Will Young/Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Mark Chapman/Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Philips, Michael Bracewell/Ben Sears, Mitchell Santner (capt), Lockie Ferguson, William OโRourke and Matt Henry.
Toss
Teams would look to bowl first here since the track supports the batters and totals can be chased at Rawalpindi.
New Zealand vs Bangladesh Head to Head Record
Bangladesh vs New Zealand ODI Records
New Zealand and Bangladesh have played each other twice in the ICC Champions Trophy. One time Bangladesh ended up winning and New Zealand have also won once. The last time these two teams clashed was in 2017 when Bangladesh defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets at Cardiff.
Bangladesh vs New Zealand Champions Trophy Record
If we talk about the overall record, both teams have played 45 one-day internationals against each other, 33 have been won by New Zealand, and Bangladesh have only managed to win 11, one game ended without any result.