India’s Cricket National Team Rohit Sharma faced against the New Zealand national team led by Mitchell Santner in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final.
The match between the India team and the New Zealand team played at the Dubai international stadium on Sunday, March 9th.
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I want to appreciate all those who came out and supported us – Rohit Sharma After India beat New Zealand
Both India and New Zealand gave their best in the final, but they were men with blue who appeared victorious. After Kiwis’s limitation to 251/7, India was hunting for the remaining 6 balls and won with 4 wickets.
Speaking during the post -race presentation ceremony, Rohit Sharma thanked Dubai’s crowd for supporting the India team throughout the competition. Stated:
“I want to appreciate all those who came out and supported us. The crowd here was great, it’s not our home, but they did our home.
“Not only this game, but just means, our spins in particular, there are many expectations when you play in one step like this. We understand their strengths and use it to our advantage.”
Very compact mind, never exceeds the pressure around him – Rohit Sharma in Kl Rahul
Rohit Sharma further threw the rich praise in KL Rahul to play well at No.6 at ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and said:
“(In KL) Very compact mind, never goes beyond the pressure around him. This is the resason we wanted to have in the middle phase, there is little calm when he gets the right plan to play in the situation, gives others freedom to play freely like hardik.”
Rohit Sharma signed by talking about the mystery Spinner Varun Chakravarthy, who proved to be a player for India in the competition and got 9 wickets. Stated:
“(In Varun) he has something different for him, when we play on such stadiums we want the strokes to do something different, he didn’t start in the tournament for us, but when he was playing against New Zealand and got a difference of 5.
India beat New Zealand in the previous ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match
India has set a strong round performance against New Zealand in the previous ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match at Dubai’s international cricket on March 2. They won the match with 44 runs and finished the teamwork campaign unbeaten.
First, India faced early failures, losing three wicked in seven overs, such as Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli cheaply left.
Then Asteras Batter Shreyas Iyer (79 out of 98) joined forces with all the round Axar Patel (42 except 61) to lead India to recovery. The twin struck well and sewn a critical 98 pavilion that pushed the kiwi on the back leg for a while.
After Iyer and Axar came out, Hardik Pandya came with a good blow 45 runs from 45 balls to help India finish with a total of 249/9 in their 50s.
In defending the standings, India’s decision to play four spins proved to be right as they drowned the flow and did not allow the black lids to score quickly.
The mystery Spinner Varun Chakravarthy was the star of the show, as he recorded figures on 5/42. It was rejected Will Young, Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry.
Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel supported Varun very well, as India pushed New Zealand for 205 at 45.3 overss despite Kane Williamson’s brilliant blow from 81 runs.
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2025-03-09 21:28:00
