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New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and opted to bowl first at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in ICC Champions Trophy 2025 clash on March 1. Santner made one change to the side replacing Devon Conway with fit-again Daryl Mitchell.
"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 first task is to do a job here, and challenge ourselves in different conditions. Daryl Mitchell comes in, Conway misses this one," Santner said after winning the toss.
Indian skipper Rohit Sharma made one change to the side as well. He replaced young pacer Harshit Rana with mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy. India are playing with one speciallist pacer, one pace-bowling all-rounder and four spinners in the side.
"[I] 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," Rohit said at the coin toss.
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
India vs New Zealand head-to-head Champions Trophy
The last time India and New Zealand went up against each other in a Champions Trophy match was in 2000 edition's final. Chris Cairns' unbeaten century helped New Zealand beat India by four wickets. Skipper Sourav Ganguly's century went in vain.
India vs New Zealand ODI head-to-head
India and New Zelaand have went up against each other in 118 ODIs in nearly five decades. India have won 60, lost 50, one was tied whereas seven ended in no result.
The last time India faced New Zealand was in ODI World Cup 2023 semifinal. India beat New Zealand by 70 runs. In the league stages of ODI World Cup 2023, India beat New Zealand by four wickets. In last five ODI clashes, India have gotten the better of the kiwis.
