India vs New Zealand Final match: The final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is to be played between India and New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday (March 9). The Indian team has won all its 4 matches in the Champions Trophy. On the other hand, the only defeat that the New Zealand team has faced in the Champions Trophy this time is from India in the league matches. In the year 2000 also, both the countries came face to face in the final of this tournament. Then New Zealand defeated India and won its first ICC trophy.

In such a situation, the Indian team has time to take revenge for the defeat of the year 2000. Then both the teams were face to face in the final of Champions Trophy 2000. This final was held in Nairobi on 15 October 2000. In that match, Indian captain Sourav Ganguly played an innings of 119 runs, Sachin Tendulkar scored 69 runs and the Indian team scored 264/6.

Today Indian team will probably not make any changes. For that, Shubman Gill can open with Rohit Sharma. Virat Kohli will play at number three and Shreyas Iyer at number four. The place of KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel is also confirmed in the playing eleven. Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakraborty and Kuldeep Yadav can show amazing performance in bowling. Ravindra Jadeja can also prove to be important.

New Zealand team's brilliant player Matt Henry was injured during the semi-final match. He had a shoulder injury. Henry may now be out of the final match. However, no official update has been received regarding this yet. If Henry is out, Nathan Smith may be given a chance in his place.

IND vs NZ Head-to-Head Records in ICC Events

Till now, 21 matches have been played between India and New Zealand in ICC events in which India has won 7. 11 matches have been played between the two teams in the ODI World Cup in which India has won 5 and lost 5, one match was inconclusive. Both teams have played against each other twice in the Champions Trophy in which they have won one and lost one. 3 matches have been played between the two teams in the T20 World Cup and India has lost all three. A total of 5 test matches have been played between the two teams under the ICC Test Champions in which the Kiwi team has won three and India has won one test match. One match was drawn.

India Squad for Champions Trophy: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.

New Zealand Squads for Champions Trophy: Mitchell Santner (c), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Will O’Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Kane Williamson, Will Young, Jacob Duffy.

Dubai Pitch Report

The same pitch on which the match between India and Pakistan was played has been prepared for the India vs New Zealand final match. Talking about the help on the pitch, the batsmen will have to face a lot of challenges here. The pitch will be slow, spinners will get good help here. Fast bowlers can also trouble the batsmen. Although fast runs can be scored here in the beginning, but in the middle order one will have to depend more on singles and doubles.

Dew will not play any role in Dubai, so the captain who wins the toss can decide to bat first. Although chasing runs here is not too difficult, but if the team batting first scores 290-300, then it will be very difficult for the team batting in the second innings to achieve the target.

Broadcasting and Streaming Details

The ICC Champions Trophy Final between India and New Zealand will be telecast live on the Star Sports Network and Sports18 Network. The action will be streamed live on the JioHotstar app and website.

Champions Trophy 2025 Prize Money

The team that wins the Champions Trophy tournament today will be given a prize of 2.24 million dollars (about 19.5 crores rupees). The team that loses in the final match and becomes the runner-up will be given 1.12 million dollars (about 9.78 crores rupees). Australia and South Africa, who lost in the semi-finals and were eliminated, will receive a prize of 560,000 dollars i.e. about 4.89 crores rupees from the ICC.