The last group match of the Indian team in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is against New Zealand today (2 March). This match will be held at Dubai International Cricket Stadium from 2.30 pm Indian time. Both teams have already reached the semi -finals. The winning team of this match will face Australia in the semi -finals. The losing team will face South Africa in the semi -finals.
Kohli will create history as soon as he lands on the field
This match is very special for former Team India captain Virat Kohli. This 300th ODI of Kohli’s career is going to be a match. King Kohli will be only the seventh cricketer to play 300 ODIs for India. Mohammad Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Yuvraj Singh are already present in this special club.
Also, Virat Kohli will become the first player in the world to play at least 300 ODI, 100 T20I and 100 Test matches. Kohli made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in 2008, since then he has been performing unmatched in this format. Kohli has played 299 ODI matches, in which he has scored 14 thousand 85 runs at an average of 58.20. Kohli has 51 centuries and 73 half -centuries in ODIs.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma and wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul will also be eyeing in the match against New Zealand. If Rohit Sharma scored 18 runs, he will complete 1000 thousand runs against New Zealand in ODI International. Rohit has scored 982 runs in 29 ODI matches against Kiwi team at an average of 37.76. On the other hand, if KL Rahul scored 56 runs in this match, then he will complete 3000 thousand runs in ODI International. Rahul has so far scored 2944 runs in 82 ODI matches with an average of 48.26.
Maximum ODI match for India
Sachin Tendulkar – 463 matches
MS Dhoni- 347 matches
Rahul Dravid- 340 matches
Mohammad Azharuddin- 334 matches
Sourav Ganguly – 308 matches
Yuvraj Singh- 301 matches
Virat Kohli- 299* match
Rohit Sharma- 270* match
Anil Kumble- 269 matches
Virender Sehwag- 241 matches
Indian squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-Qetan), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarti, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar.
Non-Trawing Substitute: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammad Siraj, Shivam Dubey
New Zealand Squad: Mitchell Santner (Captain), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Dewon Conve, Kyle Jemison, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Derryl Mitchell, Will Verorke, Glen Philips, Rachin Ravindra, Jacob Dafi, Nathan Smith, Ken Williamson, Will Young.