The India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy 2025 noticed Varun Chakravarthy in full circulation. The thriller spinner took 5 wickets as India beat New Zealand by 44 runs regardless of setting a low goal of 250. Nonetheless, one in all his fielding errors went viral as he couldn’t cease a ball and it resulted in a 4. It occurred within the third over of the match when Hardik Pandya bowled to Will Younger. The Kiwi despatched the ball in direction of mid-on. Varun ran for the catch, missed it after which the ball hit his leg to go previous the boundary lone. Hardik hid his face, whereas different members of the group like Virat Kohli had been shocked.
Varun Chakravarthy kya kar rahe ho.. 4 runs reward.#INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/brTiOaDnec
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Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja response on Varun Chakravarthy miss fielding. pic.twitter.com/cl84xxNviQ
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Earlier, Seamer Matt Henry stood tall but once more to select 5-42, third five-for within the 50-over format, as New Zealand restricted India to 249/9 of their 50 overs within the closing Group A recreation of the 2025 Champions Trophy on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium on Sunday. Electing to bowl first, New Zealand used the assistance supplied by the black soil pitch to good impact and stored India in examine. Shreyas Iyer rescued India from a top-order collapse by making a tremendous 79 and obtained the corporate of Axar Patel, who made a stable 42. With New Zealand bowling fantastically within the again finish, Hardik Pandya’s run-a-ball 45 ensured India posted a aggressive whole.
With some assistance on supply for the quick bowlers, Henry and Kyle Jamieson made good use of it by asking robust inquiries to the Indian batters through seam and swing respectively. Although Rohit Sharma clobbered Henry for 4 and 6 respectively, the seamer bounced again by trapping Shubman Gill plumb lbw with a beautiful inswinger for simply two.
Jamieson joined in when Rohit mistimed a pull and was caught at midwicket for 15. Virat Kohli obtained going with two edgy boundaries in his landmark three hundredth ODI earlier than he lower one arduous off Henry and Glenn Phillips flew to his proper at backward level to take a surprising catch, leaving everybody shellshocked, because the batter fell for 11, with India ending first power-play at 37/3.
With the ball turning so much for New Zealand’s spinners, India went 51 balls with out hitting a boundary until Axar swept off Mitchell Santner within the sixteenth over. After that, Iyer carted William O’Rourke for 3 fours – two coming off pulls whereas the third one got here as a drive over additional cowl.
Whereas Iyer continued his good run to get his twenty second ODI fifty in 75 balls, Axar took a liking to Michael Bracewell’s off-spin by hitting him for 2 fours, earlier than lofting him over additional covers for six. The 98-run stand was damaged when Axar tried to drag a down leg supply from Rachin Ravindra, however the prime edge was caught by a backward sq. leg and the batter fell for 42.
With KL Rahul getting off the mark by lofting Ravindra for 4, Iyer obtained the timing proper on his photographs fetching him a six every off the spinner and O’Rourke respectively. However within the thirty seventh over, the brief ball brought on Iyer’s downfall as he was rushed into the pull off O’Rourke and prime edge was caught by brief mid-wicket working backwards.
Three overs later, Rahul fell for 23 as he tried to play a skiddy supply from Santner away from his physique, however obtained a thick edge behind to Tom Latham. Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja kickstarted the slog overs section by hitting Bracewell for six and 4 respectively, earlier than the previous pulled O’Rourke for an additional boundary.
Hardik stood tall to hit a forehand-like shot for 4 off Henry, who later had Jadeja slicing to backward level with Kane Williamson taking a one-handed diving catch. With New Zealand spot on with their lengths, they managed to maintain Hardik quiet until the all-rounder lower unfastened within the forty ninth over.
He sliced and lofted Jamieson for back-to-back fours, earlier than following it up by pulling the pacer over long-on for six to take 15 runs off the penultimate over. However Henry dismissed him and Mohammed Shami within the closing over to select a five-fer and maintain India one run in need of 250.
Temporary scores: India 249/9 in 50 overs (Shreyas Iyer 79, Hardik Pandya 45; Matt Henry 5-42) in opposition to New Zealand.
With IANS inputs
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