🏏ICC Champions Trophy 2025: India vs NZ, Match 12, Group A🏏 - Page 6

Great...great... great!! NZ won the toss and elected to field first!

Mitch Santner: We'll have a bowl first, looks like a good wicket. Want to put some pressure early and hopefully it skids on well later. We still want to win, we know we are going to be in Lahore later but our job here is do a job here. Daryl Mitchell comes in, Conway misses this one.

Only three names come to mind when you think of India's ODI behemoths. Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli. Today, he becomes the seventh Indian cricketer to play 300 ODIs, joining legendary company. Mohammad Azharuddin, Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, and Yuvraj Singh are the others who have reached milestone 300. Among all these geniuses, only Ganguly and Dravid scored half-centuries in their 300th ODI, while Dhoni scored 49. Can Kohli, who is capable of making such occasions special, get a big one in front of his family and million fans ?

Rohit Sharma: Was anyway looking to bat first, wanted to see what we could do upfront and then challenge our bowlers since we chased on both games. Approach will be very similar to the previous games, just trying to do the same things.

Varun playing 💙💙💙.

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Teams:

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy

New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy

New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke

Rohit Sharma: Was anyway looking to bat first, wanted to see what we could do upfront and then challenge our bowlers since we chased on both games. Approach will be very similar to the previous games, just trying to do the same things. One change for us - Harshit has been rested, Varun is playing for us.

New Zealand have won the toss and have opted to field

Mitch Santner: We'll have a bowl first, looks like a good wicket. Want to put some pressure early and hopefully it skids on well later. We still want to win, we know we are going to be in Lahore later but our job here is do a job here. Daryl Mitchell comes in, Conway misses this one.

New Zealand have won the toss and have opted to field

Mitch Santner: We'll have a bowl first, looks like a good wicket. Want to put some pressure early and hopefully it skids on well later. We still want to win, we know we are going to be in Lahore later but our job here is do a job here. Daryl Mitchell comes in, Conway misses this one.

Rohit Sharma: Was anyway looking to bat first, wanted to see what we could do upfront and then challenge our bowlers since we chased on both games. Approach will be very similar to the previous games, just trying to do the same things. One change for us - Harshit has been rested, Varun is playing for us. It is all about bowling in partnerships, in both games we have combined to pick 19 wickets. Our spinners have restricted them well and then the seamers have got the wickets.

Some trivia

India and New Zealand have met only once before in the ICC Champions Trophy, which was the final in 2000. The tournament was then called the ICC Knockout and the tie had saw Chris Cairns smashing an unbeaten ton to hand New Zealand a four wicket victory.