On Sunday, India will play New Zealand in the Champions Trophy 2025 final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
The Champions Trophy 2025 final between India and New Zealand is scheduled for Sunday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. In less than a year, the team captained by Rohit Sharma will try to win its second ICC championship. India took home the T20 World Cup trophy in June 2024. Regarding the current event, Rohit and his team have appeared to be in excellent form. They defeated Australia in the semi-final after winning all three of their group stage games against Bangladesh, Pakistan, and New Zealand.Prior to the top match, India is facing a serious injury scare after star batsman Virat Kohli was allegedly struck on the knee during a practice session. After being struck by a fast bowler’s delivery, Kohli took the hit, according to the story shared by Geo TV. He abruptly halted his workout, and the physiotherapist arrived, sprayed him, and bandaged the wounded region, according to the report. The Indian coaching staff reportedly explained that the injury is not significant and that Kohli will participate in the final, even though he didn’t bat after that.
In a successful chase, a Kohli knock rarely leaves one wanting more. However, his 84 that helped India defeat Australia in the semifinals inIn a successful chase, a Kohli knock rarely leaves one wanting more. However, there was a hint of incompleteness in his 84, which helped India defeat Australia in the Champions Trophy semifinals in Dubai.
On Tuesday, Kohli would have reached his 25th three-figure milestone while pursuing a target with a well-known century. However, he checked a lot of boxes, so the master wouldn’t be too upset about the knock he eventually achieved. These are the two most crucial ones.Box No. 2: The fifty was adamant about defeating a rival who had already caused him and India a number of heartaches. He might have been expressing through it that he was willing to fight on for a while longer and reach some more summits.
However, that has not occurred without a fair amount of effort. After being removed by Hossain against Bangladesh, Kohli had to spend an additional two hours in the nets honing his skills before the match against Pakistan.
Subsequently, he negated Pakistan’s Abrar Ahmed, but Adam Zampa is in a different league as a white ball leg-spinner.
Box No.1: He tamed spinners, an Achilles Heel that haunted him for long, and more recently exploited by England’s Adil Rashid and Bangladesh’s Rishad Hossain.It would have given Zampa’s skill more vigor to play on the slow Dubai pitch, which slows down even more in the second half.
Counterattack has been Kohli’s go-to tactic to defeat the Australian leg-spinner, who has dismissed him five times in white ball formats since their first encounter in 2017.
Kohli had hit him for 264 runs at a strike-rate of 107 off 245 balls prior to the Champions Trophy encounter.
But after he dismissed Zampa with 23 off 24 balls, Kohli demonstrated that the pitch’s characteristics required a different strategy. In his match against Tanveer Sangha, he again scored 12 runs off of 9 balls.Even though he ultimately lost to Zampa, it was effective in a challenging pursuit of 265 and wasn’t really exceptional. But a long time after the team’s work was finished.
India will be hoping that Kohli maintains the same level of play in the 2025 Champions Trophy final.
