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India and New Zealand are scheduled to fight in the final of the Champions Trophy again after 25 years. The two will play a title match in Dubai on 9 March. Earlier in 2000, New Zealand won the final on Nairobi’s ground by 4 wickets in the last over.
New Zealand has harassed India the most in the knockout matches of the ICC tournament. The team has also defeated India the semi -finals of the 2019 ODI World Cup and the final of the 2021 World Test Championship.
In the story, India and New Zealand will learn about the rivalry in the ICC tournament …
New Zealand won by Chris Carns’s century
New Zealand has the only ICC title Champions Trophy of Limited Over Cricket. In 2000, India defeated Kenya, Australia and South Africa and made it to the finals. New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
New Zealand won the toss in the final on Nairobi’s ground and elected fielding. Captain Sourav Ganguly scored 117 and Sachin Tendulkar scored 69 runs from India. Apart from these two, no other batter could do anything special and the team could score 264 runs after losing 6 wickets.
New Zealand lost 5 wickets for 132 runs. Here Chris Carns took the innings with Chris Harris. Both partnered 122 runs for the sixth wicket and dropped India out of the match. Carren’s scored a century and gave the team victory with 2 balls left. Kerns was also the player of the match.
Will clash for the third time in Champions Trophy
Both teams will clash for the third time in 27 -year -old Champions Trophy history. In the same year, both of them were also faced in the group stage, when India defeated New Zealand by 44 runs on the ground in Dubai. Now on March 9, once again both will face on the Dubai ground.
New Zealand defeats India 63% ICC match
All the ICC tournaments had 16 matches between India and New Zealand. In 10, New Zealand won and Team India won just 6. However, in the ICC’s ODI tournament, both of them have won equal matches. There were 12 matches between the two in the Champions Trophy and the ODI World Cup, in 6 New Zealand and 6 in 6.
New Zealand won 75% match in knockout stage
New Zealand is not only dominated by the ICC’s group stage matches against India, showing dominance in the knockout stage. There were 4 knockout matches between the two, in 3 New Zealand and India won in just 1.
Before 2023, New Zealand had defeated India all three knockout matches. The defeat was received in the 2000 Champions Trophy final, the 2019 ODI Cup semi -finals and the World Test Championship of 2021. In the 2023 ODI World Cup semi -finals, India broke the trend and defeated New Zealand by 70 runs.
India has defeated New Zealand 66% ODI
In overall ODI cricket, Team India has dominated New Zealand. There were 95 matches between the two, India won in 63 and New Zealand in just 30. That is, India’s success rate was 66%. Both also played 1 tie and 1 benati match.
India defeated 85% ODI in last 10 years
India has dominated New Zealand even more in the last 10 years. Since 2016, 20 ODIs between the two, India won in 17 and New Zealand in just 3. However, New Zealand’s 3 out of 3 win ICC tournament came into the knockout stage.
Kohli’s 6 centuries against New Zealand
Virat Kohli from India is the active player to score the most runs against New Zealand. He has scored 1656 runs against Kiwi team scoring 6 centuries in 32 ODIs. Rohit Sharma has scored 997 runs against New Zealand. At the same time, Shubman Gill has scored an average of 74 an average of 592 runs in 11 matches.
Mohammed Shami is the most active Indian player against New Zealand. He has 37 wickets in 15 ODIs. Shami took 7 wickets against the team in the 2023 ODI World Cup semi -finals. Kuldeep Yadav has taken 22 wickets against New Zealand and 16 wickets Hardik Pandya.
Matt Henry bothers India a lot
Kane Williamson is the active Kiwi batter who scored the most runs against India. He has scored 1228 runs by scoring 1 century in 30 ODIs. Matt Henry is the top bowler with 21 wickets. He also took 5 wickets in the last match.
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