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ND vs NZ Final Live Score: New Zealand gets fourth blow at 108, Jadeja dismisses Latham, Kuldeep takes two wickets
ND vs NZ Live Score: New Zealand 83/3 after 15 overs, Williamson also out after Young-Rachin, Kuldeep gets two wickets
ND vs NZ Live Score: New Zealand gets second blow at 69, Kuldeep bowls Rachin, Varun dismisses Young
Live Score IND vs NZ: New Zealand gets second blow
Live Score IND vs NZ: New Zealand gets first blow
Live Score IND vs NZ: Rachin gets two lives
IND vs NZ Final Match Live Cricket Score Updates: Hello! Welcome to channel24india.com’s live blog. Today the final match of Champions Trophy 2025 is being played between India and New Zealand. This match is being played at Dubai International Stadium. India is undefeated in this tournament so far, while New Zealand’s only defeat came from India in the group stage. New Zealand captain Santner won the toss and decided to bat first.
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03:24 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: Second blow to New Zealand
New Zealand got the second blow on the score of 69 runs in the 11th over. Rohit, while captaining brilliantly, handed the ball to Kuldeep in the 11th over and he clean bowled Rachin Ravindra on the very first ball. Rachin got two lives, but he could not take advantage of it. Rachin played an innings of 37 runs with the help of four fours and a six in 29 balls. Currently Daryl Mitchell and Kane Williamson are at the crease. After 11 overs, New Zealand’s score is 73 runs for two wickets.
03:11 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: First blow to New Zealand
New Zealand got the first blow on the score of 57. Varun Chakraborty dismissed Will Young LBW. Young could score 15 runs in 23 balls. Currently Kane Williamson and Rachin Ravindra are at the crease. After eight overs, New Zealand’s score is 58 runs for one wicket. Earlier, Rachin Ravindra got two lives each. Shami and Shreyas Iyer dropped easy catches of Rachin. Rachin’s first catch was missed in the seventh over when Shami could not catch his catch on his own ball. Then Rachin was on 28 runs. After this, in the next over, Rachin played a shot in the air. Shreyas ran to deep mid-wicket, but the ball slipped from his hand. Then Rachin was on 29 runs. Earlier, on the first ball of the seventh over, Rachin got the benefit of DRS. The onfield umpire had given him caught out, but DRS showed that the ball had not touched his bat. In this way Rachin was saved.
03:10 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: Rachin got two lives
Rachin Ravindra got two lives. Rachin’s first catch was missed in the seventh over when Shami could not catch his catch on his own ball. Then Rachin was on 28 runs. After this, in the next over, Rachin played a shot in the air. Shreyas ran to deep mid-wicket, but the ball slipped from his hand. Then Rachin was on 29 runs. Earlier, on the first ball of the seventh over, Rachin got the benefit of DRS. The onfield umpire had given him caught out, but DRS showed that the ball did not touch his bat. In this way Rachin was saved.
02:50 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: Hardik thrashed in the fourth over
After four overs, New Zealand has scored 26 runs without losing a wicket. Rachin collected three boundaries on the last three balls of this over of Hardik. He hit a six and two fours. Rachin is at the crease after scoring 16 runs and Young eight runs. New Zealand scored 16 runs in this over of Hardik.
02:30 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: Match started
The match has started. Will Young and Rachin Ravindra are at the crease. Shami bowled the first over for India. Four runs were scored in the first over. Young hit a four on the last ball.
02:08 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: Both teams
New Zealand: Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wicketkeeper), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (captain), Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke, Nathan Smith.
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.
02:07 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: India lost 15 consecutive tosses
The Indian team has lost the 15th consecutive toss in ODIs. The team has not won any toss since the match against New Zealand in the semi-finals of the 2023 ODI World Cup. During this time, the Indian team has lost the toss in all its five matches in the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup, the three-match ODI series against South Africa, the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka, the three-match ODI series against England and the Champions Trophy.
02:04 PM, 09-Mar-2025
Live Score IND vs NZ: New Zealand won the toss
New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and decided to bat first in the final against India. Captain Santner has made one change in the playing-11. Matt Henry is not playing the match due to injury. Fast bowler Nathan Smith has been given a chance in his place. At the same time, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that he has been here for the last few days and has batted both first and later. So he has no harm in batting later in the final. Rohit said that there is no change in his playing-11. That is, India has come with only four spinners.
01:36 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live: Both teams reached the stadium
There is only a little time left for the title match to start. Both teams have reached the field.
01:34 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live: Expect some special miracle from Virat
In the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, Virat could score just five runs against Pakistan. Apart from Rohit, India had to face defeat due to Virat’s failure. At the same time, in the 2023 ODI World Cup, Virat was dismissed after scoring 54 runs against Australia. As long as Virat was on the field, it seemed that Team India would reach a good score, but there was silence as soon as he was out. India missed out on winning the ODI World Cup. In the T20 World Cup last year, Virat’s bat remained silent till the final. However, a player of his stature knows how to perform in a big match and that is what happened. In the final against South Africa, India lost three wickets for 34 runs. After this, Virat Kohli along with Axar Patel and then Shivam Dubey took over the innings. Virat scored 76 runs in 59 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes. Due to his innings, India was able to score 176 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. In reply, South Africa’s team could only score 169 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs and Team India became the champion by winning the match by seven runs. Fans will be expecting a similar miracle from Virat in this final as well.
01:31 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live Score: Virat’s performance in every ICC final
On the other hand, if we talk about Virat, he has played the 2011 ODI World Cup final, 2013 Champions Trophy final, 2014 T20 World Cup final, 2017 Champions Trophy final, 2023 ODI World Cup final and 2024 T20 World Cup final. Virat played an important innings of 35 runs against Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 ODI World Cup. India won the World Cup title by defeating Sri Lanka in Mumbai. In the 2013 Champions Trophy, Virat scored important 43 runs against England. Thanks to this innings, Team India managed to win. In the final of the 2014 T20 World Cup, Virat scored 77 runs against Sri Lanka and took India to a good total. However, later India lost this final due to the innings of Jayawardene and Sangakkara. 01:28 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live Score: Rohit’s performance in ICC final
Before this final, Rohit has played the 2007 T20 World Cup final, 2013 Champions Trophy final, 2014 T20 World Cup final, 2017 Champions Trophy final, 2023 ODI World Cup final and 2024 T20 World Cup final. In the final of the 2007 T20 World Cup, Rohit played an unbeaten match-winning innings of 30 runs against Pakistan. Team India won this match. In the 2013 Champions Trophy, Rohit scored nine runs against England. However, even then Team India managed to win. In the final of the 2014 T20 World Cup, Rohit scored 29 runs against Sri Lanka. India lost this final. In the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, Rohit could not open his account against Pakistan.
Team India also lost this match. At the same time, in the 2023 ODI World Cup, Rohit was out after scoring 47 runs against Australia. Team India also lost this match. In the T20 World Cup 2024 too, Hitman could not do anything special and was out after scoring just nine runs. However, Team India managed to win. Rohit would like to win the match for India on his own in the last phase of his career. If his bat works, it can create problems for the opposing team. 01:02 PM, 09-Mar-2025 IND vs NZ Live Score: All eyes will be on Pandya’s all-round performance Apart from Kohli and Rohit, useful contributions will also be expected from vice-captain Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya. Gill and Shreyas have performed well in bits and pieces, while Rahul and Pandya also did their job in the semi-final against Australia. Now all of them have to perform well as a unit and bring the title to India.
01:01 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live Score: Virat Kohli’s bat is spewing runs
Rohit, who has been looking satisfied with scoring 20-30 runs for some time, will have to change his attitude and stay at the crease for a long time. This will reduce the pressure on the middle order batsmen. He must also be feeling relieved with Matt Henry’s injury as this fast bowler has troubled him a lot in the past. A big contribution will be expected from Rohit while Kohli has been doing so. In the last five innings, he has refreshed the memories of the old days by scoring a century and two half-centuries.
12:29 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live Score: Virat and Rohit will have full responsibility
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will have to play a big role for the Indian team, which won the T20 World Cup last year. The last stage of their career is now coming closer match by match. It cannot be said whether this will be the last tournament for both the stalwarts who have been serving Indian cricket for so long or not. If it happens, both would like to bid farewell with the title.
12:28 PM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live Score: New Zealand hopes from Williamson and Rachin
The biggest hope for New Zealand will be Kane Williamson and Rachin Ravindra who are experts in playing spin. New Zealand also has a quartet of spinners in the form of captain Mitchell Santner, Michael Bracewell, Ravindra and Glenn Phillips who can do the same thing for them. New Zealand’s spinners troubled India a lot in the Test series last year and once again they would like to repeat that performance in an attempt to win the ICC ODI title for the first time since 2000. 25 years ago in Nairobi, New Zealand won the knockout tournament by defeating India in the final.
11:35 AM, 09-Mar-2025
IND vs NZ Live Score: Fans’ reactions
On the final match between India and New Zealand, a fan from Srinagar said, ‘We are Indians, so we definitely want to see India win. I hope Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma will start well in the match and both will score centuries.’ On the final match, a young Indian team fan said, ‘Definitely, India will win because they have good batsmen. If Rohit Sharma gets out, they have batsmen like Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya. They have good bowlers.’
