NEW DELHI: New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner received the toss and elected to bat in opposition to India within the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 last on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium on Sunday.
In a setback for New Zealand, star pacer Matt Henry has been dominated out of the title conflict because of a shoulder damage sustained whereas fielding within the semifinal in opposition to South Africa on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
Nathan Smith has been named as his alternative within the taking part in XI.
In the meantime, Rohit Sharma-led India have caught to their profitable mixture, fielding an unchanged XI for the ultimate.
“We’ll have a bat first. Appears to be like like a reasonably good wicket, much like the one we performed India right here every week in the past. Wish to get runs on the board and see what occurs. Clearly anticipated a number of blue shirts, nice ambiance, nice floor,” Santner mentioned.
“Going to be barely totally different from what we acquired in Pakistan. We noticed how India performed and what they acquired out of it. Hope it slows down a bit later. Totally different guys have stepped up at totally different occasions. You need guys firing from the beginning and now we have achieved that, as have India. Sadly Matt Henry has been dominated out, we have got Nathan Smith coming in,” he mentioned.
“We have been right here sufficient, batted first and bowled first, do not actually thoughts batting second. It hasn’t modified a lot, we have chased and received as properly. It does provide you with a whole lot of confidence, takes the toss away from the sport. On the finish of the day, what issues is how properly you need to play. That is what we have spoken about within the dressing room, to not fear concerning the toss and to simply play properly, that is what we have achieved and now we have to do at this time as properly. New Zealand have been an excellent workforce over the previous so a few years, they have an inclination to play good cricket in ICC tournaments. The problem for us is to play properly in opposition to them now. Identical workforce for us,” India skipper Rohit mentioned.
India booked their place within the summit conflict after defeating Australia, whereas New Zealand outclassed South Africa to succeed in the ultimate.
Apparently, each groups have been a part of Group A within the event and had already confronted off within the group stage.
India, the one unbeaten facet within the competitors, had secured a convincing 44-run victory over New Zealand in that encounter.
PLAYING XIS:
INDIA:
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakaravarthy
NEW ZEALAND:
Will Younger, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Tom Latham (wk), Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke, Nathan Smith
