CSK IMPACT on CT Final 2025: On March 9 at Dubai International Stadium, India and New Zealand teams will land to play in the finals of the Champions Trophy against each other. But there is also a discussion about this match that this final match has become India vs New Zealand but India vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
Actually, one of the major reasons for this is the IPL (Indian Premier League) connection of many Khiladis in the New Zealand team. And is even larger than the IPL connection, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) connection. When India’s team goes to play in the final of the Championus Trophy in Dubai on March 9, then this will definitely happen in their mind. Rachin Rabindra, Davon Conway, Deril Mitchell, Mitchell Santner, who are involved in the Squad of New Zealand’s Champions Trophy, have a connection with Chennai Super Kings.
Chennai and Dubai benefits to be the same
Four Champions Trophy matches in Dubai are slowing the pitch. While there is a little turn to confuse the batsmen, the bounce on the pitch is less. The nature of which is largely like MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
For Chennai, IPL 2024 players and this time also in the squad, Rachin has trained on a similar pitch in CSK Academy (Chennai), which is why he is the second highest run -scorer (226 runs) with two centuries in the tournament.
Opener partner Conway from Rachin also took training in Chennai during the IPL. Devon Conve is also included in the New Zealand team, he also has a Chennai Super Kings connection in the IPL. Conway played in the Champions Trophy against Bangladesh (10) and Pakistan (30), but he did not play after that. In five seasons with CSK, Santner played only 18 matches, but every time he went back after playing IPL, he got the benefit of this for his country. However, this season, he will be seen playing for Mumbai Indians.
New Zealand captain Santner has 7 wickets in the Champions Trophy, he took 3 wickets in the semi -final match against South Africa and overturned the entire match. At the same time, if we talk about India, Ravindra Jadeja is such a girl who is included in the team of Chennai Super Kings.
Deril Mitchell was bought by Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings team in a large amount of Rs 14 crore during the Indian Premier League auction (IPL Auction 2024), but he could not do anything special and was released from the team, this time he will be seen playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2025. In this Champions Trophy, Michhel scored 17 runs in the semi -finals against South Africa in the match with India. He is known for his hard hitting batting.
India’s squad for Champions Trophy: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty
New Zealand Squad for Champions Trophy: Mitchell Santner (Captain), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Dewon Conve, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Deril Mitchell, William Oroke, Glenn Philips, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Ken Williamson, Will Young, Jacob Duffy, Kaili Zaimison