Rohit Sharma and Mitchell Santner walk out for the toss. New Zealand win the toss and Santner opt to bowl first. This is the 10th consecutive time Rohit Sharma has lost a toss as captain. This is also the 13th consecutive tosses lost by India in ODIs.
Twelve days on from when they opened the tournament’s group stages with a match against one side of the great subcontinental rivalry, New Zealand are set to conclude this portion of the ICC Champions Trophy with a contest against the other. Both India and New Zealand have already qualified for the knockout round of the Champions Trophy, and all is that left to decide is who will finish first and who will finish second – which team will play Australia, and which one will face South Africa?
This is Virat Kohli’s 300th ODI match. Virat Kohli to have his family in the stands in Dubai on his milestone game. His wife Anushka Sharma and brother Vikas Kohli will be in attendance today.
The match is set to begin at 2:30 PM (IST) at Dubai International Stadium. BCCI posted a link to check out the live coverage of the match on X.
India vs New Zealand predicted playing XIs
India: Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav/Varun Chakravarthy, Arshdeep Singh.
New Zealand: Will Young, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson, Rachin Ravindra, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Matt Henry, William O’Rourke, Kyle Jamieson
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