India vs New Zealand Head-To-Head Record: The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final will be played between India and New Zealand on March 9, Sunday, in Dubai.
This will be the second meeting of these two teams in this tournament: earlier, India beat New Zealand by 44 runs in their group stage encounter.
India are the only team in this tournament to have not lost a single game: they won all their three group matches—vs Bangladesh, Pakistan, and New Zealand—before defeating Australia in a hard-fought semi-final.
New Zealand, too, beat Bangladesh and Pakistan to seal their place in the semi-final. And while they suffered a defeat at the hands of India, they bounced back to hammer South Africa in the semi-final to seal their date with India again in the final.
This will be the fifth encounter between India and New Zealand in an ICC knockout.
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India vs New Zealand Head-To-Head Record In ICC Knockouts
India and New Zealand have met four times so far in ICC knockout matches. Of these, three knockout games were won by New Zealand, while India managed to win only once.
1. IND vs NZ ICC Champions Trophy 2000 final (ICC Knockout)
India and New Zealand’s first meeting in an ICC knockout match was in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2000, the tournament was then called the ICC Knockout, in Nairobi.
The Kiwis won the final by four wickets, chasing down the target of 265 with two balls left. Chris Cairns was named the Man of the Match for his knock of 102* (113).
2. IND vs NZ World Cup 2019 semi-final
India and New Zealand’s next clash in an ICC knockout game came after 19 years from their first meeting, in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup in Manchester.
New Zealand gave India, the tournament favorites, a loss in a last-over thriller, winning by 18 runs after setting a target of 240. Matt Henry was named Man of the Match for his excellent figures of 3/37, which included wickets of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Dinesh Karthik.
3. IND vs NZ ICC WTC 2019-21 final
New Zealand won the inaugural ICC World Test Championship by beating India in the final in June 2021 in Southampton by eight wickets. Fast bowler Kyle Jamieson was named the Man of the Match for figures of 5/31 & 2/30, and he also contrib ted 21 runs in New Zealand’s first innings, which proved to be crucial as they took a slender but vital 32-run first-innings lead.
4. IND vs NZ World Cup 2023 semi-final
India’s first and only win so far against New Zealand in an ICC knockout match came in the semi-final of the World Cup 2023 at the Wankhede Stadium.
Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer slammed terrific centuries to propel India’s total to 397, before Mohammed Shami took 7/57, the fourth-best bowling figures in World Cup history, as India won by 70 runs. Shami was named the Man of the Match.
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