IND vs NZ: India's 25-year-old revenge completed!
India defeated new zealand by 4 wickets to win the Champions Trophy 2025 title. Team india has won the Champions Trophy title again after 12 years. india has hoisted the tricolor in Dubai, capturing an ICC trophy for the second consecutive year.
India became world champion for the third time
India has won the Champions Trophy title for the third time in total. Now india has also become the country to win the Champions Trophy the most number of times. India shared the Champions Trophy with sri lanka in 2002, then in 2013, Team india won the trophy under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. Now in 2025, india has become the champion of champions for the third time by defeating new zealand by 5 wickets.
Rohit, Shreyas and..., the whole Team india did wonders
In the final match of the Champions Trophy 2025, new zealand, playing first, scored 251 runs on the scoreboard. Daryl Mitchell scored the most runs for the Kiwis, who played an innings of 63 runs. But Team India definitely suffered in the 10 overs of New Zealand's innings because the Kiwis scored 79 runs in the last 10 overs. Michael Bracewell played an innings of 53 runs in 40 balls and took new zealand to 251 runs.
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave Team india a great start while chasing the target of 252 runs. There was a great partnership of 105 runs between Rohit and Gill. Gill scored 31 runs and rohit sharma scored 76 runs. Team india came under pressure after the fall of Gill and Virat's wickets, in such a situation shreyas iyer played an innings of 48 runs and reduced the pressure on the indian team a bit. In the last overs, hardik pandya played a short but very important innings of 18 runs.
India's 25-year-old revenge completed
With this win, india has also completed its 25-year-old revenge from New Zealand because new zealand won the title by defeating india in the final of the 2000 Champions Trophy. In the year 2000, when the final match of both the teams took place, sourav ganguly played a century of 117 runs for India. But chris Cairns' unbeaten innings of 102 runs proved to be too much for the indian team. This time no century was scored in Dubai, but ravindra jadeja ensured India's victory by hitting the winning shot in the form of a four.
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