Champions Trophy 2024/25, Indes NZ 12. Game, Group A Match Preview

Overall picture: Kohli closes the 300 club

Scroll down to the Guide form. Actually no need, because, spoiler warning, both teams have wwwww next to them in this match. These are two extraordinary Odi outfits in the potentially titled-distinguished form, which thanks to the all-rounder they own deep and balanced. They are particularly suitable for the conditions in this Champions Trophy – especially for those in Dubai in which this competition will take place – thanks to their spin options and the variety of impacts in their top orders.

There have also been a little bit of history between these two teams in the past five years.

This should be an important competition for all of these reasons, but it is a starter in connection with the status of this Champions trophy. India and New Zealand are both until the semi -finals and know exactly where and when their respective semi -finals are played. It only remains to be decided who they are exposed to, and it is unlikely that there is a “preferred” opponent for both teams because there is a choice between South Africa and Australia.

In this sense and the short turnaround before the semi-finals, especially in the case of India, which only have a one-day gap before their game on March 4, the competition may not necessarily be played in intensity on Sunday evening. There is a chance that big names rest, and -as India's co -trainer Ryan Ten suggested on Friday -from important bowers who did not complete their full 10 -over odds.

However, there is a man whose intensity will play a very special match in the field, but this is never too little vein throver. Virat Kohli will play his 300th Odi and the 22nd player and seventh from India to get to this landmark. Given the rarity of how rarely Odis are now played, and given the fact of how far Kohli's closest contemporaries are – Mushfiqur Rahim (274) and Rohit Sharma (272) are the only ones who have played more than 250 – will he also be the last one who comes there?

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In the spotlight: Shreyas Iyer and Kyle Jamieson

India's eyelash has to be a really discouraging test in this champions trophy. So far, they have taken second place in both games and pursued the goals of 229 and 242. Regardless of whether you will take a strict challenge from New Zealand on Sunday or second place, especially from your fingertips Mitchell Santner and Michael Braceewell through the middle over. It may be in this context Shreyas Iyer becomes particularly important. Where Kohli and Kl Rahul have gone strike in the middle of the low 803 in the low 80s in the middle of over 2023, Iyer beat 95.24. New Zealand knows how dangerous Iyer is against spin – he scored five six and scored 48 out of 35 balls against her spinners during his century in the Mumbai World Cup.

If the Kohli generation is India's golden generation, it probably reached the time of the first World test championship from 2019-21. And it is quite possible that India has won these trophies if they have not met by accident Kyle Jamieson. This highly towering and very talented fast-bowling all-rounder has undergone a test time, mainly due to injuries, and it has been confronted in India for the first time in any format since December 2021. Jamieson has not yet had the same effects in Odis that he had in tests. Could the sight of his favorite opponents do his best?

Team news: Daryl Mitchell fit, but where does it fit?

India only has a daily gap between this game and its semi -finals, but had a six -day gap between their previous game against Pakistan and this. So do you think that your most important players are sufficiently rested over three days for 200 overs? Or are you resting one or two of you? And what about the players on the bench and their match readiness, should they suddenly be asked in a knockout game? Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Shami went out of the field in different phases during the Pakistani game, but both are fit, according to the team's press conference.

India did not train on Saturday, but Rishabh Pant had a longer session in the Nets on Friday, which indicates that he could get a game – he only played an Odi in July 2024 since his return of injuries suffered during his car accident. In view of the fact that up to five left-wing battery can occur in Top-Seine Top Eight, it is possible that India can replace one of her two left Wingerfinger with off Spinner Washington Sundar. When Pant plays and adds his top 5 India to his left -handers, she relieves them of the need for Axar Patel as a floater.

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Daryl Mitchell is fit again after missing the match against Bangladesh with an illness. Rachin Ravindra, who returned from an injury, replaced Mitchell and achieved a match against Bangladesh, and wants to get Young, who had taken Ravindra's place on the order, achieved a hundred in the tournament opener against Pakistan. Devon Conway, the other opener, was also the runs and scored 97 against South Africa in the Tri series that preceded the Champions Trophy.

New Zealand (Probably): 1 Devon Conway, 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (WK), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt), 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Matt Henry, 11 Will O'Rourke.

Pitch and conditions: spin to win?

Dubai was the rotating most of the Four Champions Trophy event locations, with the spinners returning an average of 37.07 and an economic rate of 4.36. Rawalpindi is second in both cases with 40.60 and 4.81.

Of course, this can also do something with the quality of the Indian spinners. In any case, the parking spaces in Dubai, which are far from being on square turners, were only slowly, whereby the large outdoor field also served as an ally of the slower bowl.

Bangladesh and Pakistan both won the throw against India and chose bats, which reflected the trend for DEW, not to be much factor at this time of year. It is possible that BAT-First is still the right way because the parking spaces are slowing down over 100 overs.

A clear, pleasant day with a maximum temperature of 24 degrees Celsius is expected on Sunday.

Statistics and Trivia

India and New Zealand first got to know each other in the Champions Trophy: the final in 2000 when an unbeaten Chris Cairn's Century New Zealand led to a four-Wicket victory.
India has won each of her last five Odis against New Zealand. New Zealand won five in a row in front of this route.
Tom Latham's undefeated 118 made all the headlines, but he also enjoyed a big moment in the field during the New Zealand tournament against Pakistan: the catch of Shaheen Shah Afridi, in front of Matt Henry, was his 100th as a Wicketkeeper in Odis.

Quotes

“These are many Odi games and many international games, and yes, he was … I mean, words are out to express how good he was and what a great servant of the Indian cricket he was.”
Kl Rahul on Virat Kohlis upcoming milestone

CartHik Krishnaswamy is a deputy editor at Espncricinfo