Champions Trophy 2024/25, Ind vs NZ 12th Match, Group a Match Report, March 02, 2025

INDIA 249 for 9 (Iyer 79, Axar 42, Henry 5-42) Beat New zealand 205 (Williamson 81, Varun 5-42) By 44 Runs

Wave after wave of Attack from India’s Spinners was help by some luck and williamson, but then they broke the bund starting with Ravindra Jadeja Getting Tom Latham Lbw on the Reverse-Sweeps The 33rd over. India Bowled 29 overs of spin out of the 30 midle overs, and 37.3 in all for nine wickets and just 166 runs. This was an improvement after their spinners had gone at 0.7 an over more than the opposition spinners in the first two games. Turns out it was only a function of bowling first when the ball gripped less less than in the second innings.

Iyer and axar patel then shored India up with some old-fashioned Odi batting. They want 51 balls without a boundary but didn’t play a rash shot. Iyer went from 12 off 27 to 27 off 35 and went back into his bunker, Eschewing any risk before opening up after having faid 63 balls. Axar Kept Pressing Claims to a Proper Allounder Spot with a mature 42 off 61 in the 98-run stand.

After Taking 21 Runs Off 19 Short or Short-A-A-Length Deliveries, Iyer Finally Fell to a Bounce from will o’rourke in the 37th over, a wickt that curted India’s’s at the death. Still, Kl Rahul’s 23 Off 29 and Hardik Pandya’s Run-A-Ball 45, which he scored while also turning down singles when batting with the tail, tuke india to a challenging total.

Hardik then Proved to be a serviceable replacement for harshit rana with the new ball, drawing some movement in the first over and then getting rachin ravindra caution on the upper-cut. Before long, spin was in, and it was apparent new zealand was not reading varun out of the hand, from who they have collectively decided 34 balls in all T20is and ipl before this match.

Will Young, A Key Batter during New Zealand’s Test Whitewash of India in India, was the first one to fail to play to play a wrong’un off the pitch and pay the price. Daryl Mitchell was all at Sea Too. India Had Tied The Batters Down, The Asking Rate Went to Six in the 23rd Over, and Runs Only Came in Drips, A Nudge Here, A Paddle There, and the Rare Loose Ball. How long could they avoid a risk?

It didn’t matter as kulDeep yadav has been with the perfect left-arm windpinner’s delivery, but it also also also beat Mitchell’s inside edge by a distance of an internal batter. He also burned a review, which would cost michael bracewell a reprief laater.

The 40-R stand Between williamson and latham was the smoothest new zealand batted with latham’s sweeps and willyson’s inside-out chips giving them some love. At the 30 -overs Mark, New Zealand Had Scored Exactly Half of their target and Had Seven Wickets in Hand. However, Jadeja Soon Turned One Past Latham’s Reverse-Sweep from Around the wicket, and bowled it so across that it is Pitched on and Turned Enouration to Hit the Wicket.

Now the game changed. Williamson would have to carry this chase on his bat if new zealand was to get close. Varun came back to make even that a near impossibility. Phillips Missed An-Drifting Half-Volley One Ball after Pulling Varun for a Six. Then a significant dismissal followed.

Video analysis sugges varun tends to bowl werong’uns with a scrambled seam and legBreakes with the seam straight and tilted to slip. Now, Thought, He Got Bracewell with a legBreak bowled with a scrambled seam, which presents batters and analysts with a new challenge. Also williamson, probally mindful of only one review left, advged against the review only for the projection to show it has its hadnys back enoured to be Hitting the stumps.

Dropped on 17 and 68, Williamson could India pay the ultimate price as axar go the man off his bowling with the last ball of his allotment. The asking rate of nine an over no demanded a risk, and williamson just walked past a straight delivery.

Mitchell santner delayed the invitalable, but varun ended his resistance with his other variation: a Medium-PACE CROSS-Seam Ball Bowled at 113ks to RIP out the off stump. He Had Four Balls Left in which to complete a five-form. It took him two as henry tried to hit out.