IND vs NZ 12th Match Live Streaming – ICC CT25 March 2, 2025
Clash of the two past winners of ICC Champions Trophy New Zealand and India will face each other at Dubai Cricket Stadium in the final group match of ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Check detailed preview of India vs New Zealand match here.
The match will be played on 2nd March 2025, and as usual since it is the ICC Champions Trophy, every match is a must-win game.
New Zealand vs India Champions Trophy Match Preview
The New Zealand cricket team is the worst nightmare of Indian cricket team when it comes to ICC events. New Zealand always haunts Team India, and they have the psychological advantage there. In ICC Champions Trophy history, both these sides have clashed only once, with New Zealand winning that encounter. In recent events, in the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, New Zealand defeated India in the semi-final, and in the 2021 World Test Championship final, New Zealand defeated India as well.
India did take their revenge from New Zealand in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 in the semi-final, but it was India’s home condition. While still at Dubai, India will have more crowd support as compared to New Zealand, but New Zealand won’t let Team India win this game easily. India has already played their matches at Dubai, so they are well familiar with the track, while the Kiwis will need to adjust quickly.
New Zealand also humiliated India recently in Test cricket in India and became the first side in decades to not only defeat India at home, but whitewash them in a 3-0 fashion. Although it was a different format, but still, India will have that series defeat somewhere in their mind, and the fans would want to see Team India taking revenge from New Zealand.
Since the track at Dubai supports the spinners, Team India will surely start as the favorites as they have quality spinners in the form of Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, and Axar Patel. Meanwhile, if we look at the New Zealand side, they do not have a high-quality spinner apart from their captain, Mitchell Santner. Though they do have services of all-rounders Michael Bracewell and Glenn Phillips who can utilize the pitch to good effect.
India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy Playing XI
India
Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja/Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami and Arshdeep Singh.
New Zealand
Will Young/Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Mark Chapman/Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Philips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (capt), Lockie Ferguson, William O’Rourke and Matt Henry.
Toss
Whichever team wins the toss will look to bat first here, and trouble the other side with spin on a used surface.
India vs New Zealand Head to Head Record
India vs New Zealand ODI Record
India vs New Zealand ODI Record Overall, in ODI cricket, New Zealand and India have come face-to-face 118 times, with India winning 60 matches and New Zealand winning 50 games. Seven games ended without a result, and one game ended as a tie.
The recent record between these two sides has been rather one-sided. New Zealand have lost the last five matches against India in ODI cricket. Before that, two games ended without a result, and the last time New Zealand managed to defeat India in ODI cricket was back in 2022, when New Zealand won by seven wickets at Auckland.
India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy Record
New Zealand and India have faced off against each other only once in ICC Champions Trophy history, with New Zealand winning the solitary encounter.
