Team India continued to win the Champions Trophy 2025 and won the last match of the group stage. The Indian team defeated New Zealand by 44 runs in the last match. With this, Team India won 3 consecutive wins in the tournament. At the same time, India secured first place in their group with this victory and confirmed its place in the first semi -finals. The star of this victory of Team India was Varun Chakraborty, who stopped New Zealand from victory with 5 wickets. In the Champions Trophy, India defeated New Zealand for the first time and also avenged the defeat in the 2000 final.

Everyone was eyeing in the last group match of the Champions Trophy played on Sunday 2 March at Dubai International Stadium. 4 teams of the semi-finals were already decided, but now it was just to see which team would face and it was to be decided by the result of India-New Zealand match. Even before the second group, South Africa had finished first, while Australia was in second place. Team India's victory has now cleared the picture, where India will face Australia, while New Zealand will face South Africa.

Iyer-Akshar and Pandya rescued

In this match, the batsmen of both teams had to struggle.

Earlier, the turn was of the Indian team, which started very bad and due to the tight bowling of New Zealand fast bowlers was also tight fielding. Matt Henry and Kyle Jaymison had returned the pavilion to the top-3 batsmen of the Indian team by the 7th over. In this, Virat Kohli's wicket was special, which Glenn Philips returned with amazing catch.

After this, Shreyas Iyer (79) and Akshar Patel (42) took over the innings and shared a 98 -run partnership. Iyer completed his half -century but the letters missed it. Finally, Hardik Pandya scored 45 runs and took the team to 249 runs.

For New Zealand, fast bowler Matt Henry took the most 5 wickets. For the first time in the history of the Champions Trophy, a bowler did this against India.

Spinners including Varun danced

The beginning of New Zealand was also not good and he lost 2 wickets for 49 runs. Daril Mitchell stayed for a long time but he could not solve the puzzle of Indian spinners. After his dismissal, the condition of the rest of the batsmen also remained the same, which could not last long. The reason for this was especially Varun Chakraborty, who destroyed New Zealand's middle and lower middle order.

But from the other side, veteran batsman Kane Williamson (81) was proving to be a disaster for India and had also completed his first half -century in the tournament. However, during this time KL Rahul also gave him a life of life. He was moving towards his century and then on the last ball of his 10th over, Akshar Patel trapped him and returned the pavilion. From here, the victory of Team India was fixed, which Varun and Kuldeep confirmed with the last 3 wickets. Playing the first match in this tournament, Varun also took 5 wickets in ODI cricket for the first time.