India vs New Zealand, Champions Trophy 2025 Highlights: Varun Chakravarthy fifer powers IND's 44-run win

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: And the spinners have it! Kuldeep goes through Will O'Rourke and India have won by 44 runs here. They will face Australia in the semi-final on Wednesday. For New Zealand, it is a trip back to Pakistan where they face South Africa in Lahore. A day to remember for Varun Chakravarthy, he doesn't have very good memories of this ground, thanks to the 2021 T20 World Cup, but today he conquered those devils and then some. It will be one of the surprise of the tournament if Chakravarthy stays out of the side in the semi-final now.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Wow, Henry took a fifer earlier today. Now he is Varun Chakravarthy's fifth wicket. New Zealand have collapsed in a heap in the last five overs. Henry looks to go big off the fourth ball of the same over, skies the shot and Kohli comes in from long on to take the catch. Chakravarthy given one chance in this Champions Trophy and he takes it like this. No way he is not playing the semi-final now.

Henry c Kohli b Varun 2 (4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Well Santner hit a few lusty blows but he cannot deal withe the unplayable Varun Chakravarthy. Quick cross seam delivery, Santner beaten for pace and it goes through him to the stumps like he doesn't exist.

Santner b Varun 28 (31)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Well he is the one who began this spin chokehold for India and he looked set to finish his 10 overs without a wicket. But then he does get the wicket, and moreover, it is the big fish! Axar anticipated that Williamson would give him a charge before the last ball, tosses it up and gets it to land on a length. Williamson misses it as it goes past his inside edge and Rahul has a simple stumping, he doesn't miss this time. A rather uncharacteristic dismissal for Williamson, trying and failing to connect an ugly heave but he had to go for it.

Williamson st Rahul b Patel 81 (120)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Into the last 10 overs and it is all down to Kane Williamson for New Zealand, although his captain Mitch Santner can bat as well. Chakravarthy has just two more overs left and Axar is now set to bowl his last of the match in the 41st. Kuldeep Yadav, meanwhile, just bowled his seventh.

New Zealand need 85 to win from 60, their required rate has gone above eight and they are still going only at about 4.12. It means we are sure to have some high octane action in the next five odd overs. Either boundaries or wickets.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Pad first and gone. Williamson tells Bracewell to not take the review, Chakravarthy gets his third with the first ball of the 38th! Another googly, this time spinning away from the batter, umpire lifted his finger as soon as India appealed. And well, well, well, replays later show that the ball would've missed off stump!

Bracewell lbw b Varun 2 (3)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Wow how about it. He hits a six off the third ball and then is trapped LBW fourth ball. Chakravarthy's third ball was short and down the leg side, Phillips pulled it away emphatically for a six. The next ball is a googly that drifts in from a long way outside off. Phillips ends up playing all around it and is gone for all money. India starting to pull ahead now.

Phillips lbw b Varun 12 (8)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Last ball of the 35th over from Jadeja, it is flat on off stump, Williamson tries to go inside out over cover and gets a thick edge on it. The ball bounces off Rahul's gloves. It is exactly these kind of catches that Latham held on earlier today. Williamson runs a single.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Big appeal for LBW and given! Latham doesn't even bother reviewing that. Second ball of the 33rd is fired in flat on a length, Latham tries the reverse sweep and misses it entirely. Struck plumb in front of off stump. This was a relatively brisk partnership. The commentators later point out that Jadeja is very lucky not to get a warning after that appeal and celebration as it was all in the line of the stumps on that danger area on the pitch.

Latham lbw b Jadeja 14 (20)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Runs have flown a little quicker for New Zealand, probably because of the left-right combination of Latham and Williamson. And the fact that both batters are in extremely good touch at the moment. Williamson has moved to 61 off 87, Latham on 13 off 18.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: India's spinners have been able to fluster every NZ batter they came across today, save for this guy. And hardly any of them would be surprised by that. Kane Williamson just doing his thing here. Jadeja strays on to his pads last ball of the 27th over, Williamson tickles it fine for a four. He moves to 51 off 77 balls.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Daryl Mitchell had been going nowhere really and now, he has to go back to the pavilion. Fullish delivery over the wicket, Mitchell tries to play it straight down the ground but it spins into him and raps the pads. India appeal, umpire raises his finger and Mitchell reviews after a brief chat with Williamson. No bat on it and three reds on ball-tracking. That partnership ends on 44 off a whopping 82 deliveries.

Mitchell lbw b Kuldeep Yadav 17 (35)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Kane Williamson has reached 40 in 57 balls, Daryl Mitchell on 15 off 29. Kuldeep Yadav seemed to have got a warning for meandering on to the danger area after the first ball of that over. However, it later turned out that the umpire just gave an informal caution about it and not a formal tick off.

Now Ravindra Jadeja to replace Axar Patel in the 23rd over

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: They have got a couple of boundaries in each of the last two overs, with Mitchell getting one off Axar in the 19th over and Williamson getting one off Kuldeep in the 20th over, but New Zealand are in a real fix here and Rohit doesn't want to take the foot off the pedal any time soon. India aren't defending much and they can use early pressure in any manner.

Kane Williamson on 37 off 49, Mitchell on 13 off 25.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: There may be a long time to go in this match and Kane Williamson may still be out there but a run rate of 3.56 is considered pretty low even in most Test innings. The two batters, Mitchell in particular, finding fielders too regularly for their liking. He skews the fifth ball over cover point and manages to run two in that 16th over by Chakravarthy. Williamson on 24 off 34 balls, Mitchell on three off 16.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Now India turning the screws on New Zealand. Getting those dot balls to pile up. Williamson pushed the second ball of that over from Axar to long off and took a single after which Mitchell is completely pinned at the striker's end. At the end of that over, Mitchell yet to get off the mark after facing seven balls, Williamson on 20 off 25 balls.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Third ball of the 12th from Varun is a googly outside off that spins into Young. The batter comes forward to drive without accounting for the turn, inside edge and the stumps.

Young b Chakravarthy 22 (35)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Not the easiest of catches for KL Rahul but this is Kane Williamson. Last ball of the 11th by Axar, pitched outside off and darted into Williamson, the batter cuts, it takes a big deflection and hits the outer part of Rahul's gloves.

Williamson on 18 off 21, Young on 22 off 34.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Will Young and Kane Williamson are currently going at 4.11 and their required rate is 5.19 but New Zealand won't care about that one bit. They would know that if India are denied wickets in the next 10-15 overs, this match is pretty much won. Just two runs off the ninth over, Axar's second.

Young on 19 off 29, Williamson on 11 off 14.

Varun Chakravarthy into the attack for the first time, to bowl the 10th.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Well Pandya had overstepped second ball of that over in which he got Ravindra. To make matters worse, Ravindra got four off the free hit ball after Varun Chakravarthy literally kicked the ball to the boundary while trying to take a catch instead of letting the ball bounce. He had even pulled out of his delivery stride right at the load-up time before that wicket-taking delivery. Then he asks for ground staff to come out with a measuring tape and some paint to make some new marks on his run-up. And then he pulled out of the delivery stride last ball of the sixth as well. Interesting things happening here.

Anyhow, Rohit takes off Shami after that and brings in Axar to bowl the first over of spin.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Axar with a brilliant catch diving forward and Hardik Pandya gets the breakthrough for India. Last ball of the fourth over is banged in short by Pandya, Ravindra cramped for foom as he looks to ramp it fine. Doesn't get his timing right and the ball flies up in the air, Axar runs in from deep third, dives forward and takes a really sharp catch.

Rachin Ravindra c Axa b Pandya 6 (12)

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: He was clutching his shoulder while fielding in the second over, the part where he was hit when batting. But then he is bang on the money throughout this second over. Ravindra slices the fifth ball in the air through deep third and that gives him a chance to take a single.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: And all four came from the second ball. It was a wayward length ball on leg, Young just helps it along its way past the wicketkeeper for four. Shami was on the money for the rest of the over though, not the 11-ball nightmare tha t he had against Pakistan.

Hardik Pandya to bowl the second.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Mohammed Shami gets the proceedings underway. The seamer bowls a perfect good of length delivery! Good tight start by the experienced Indian pacer.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Champions Trophy 2025: Out come the New Zealand openers Will Young and Rachin Ravindra.

The Indian team is in a huddle and maybe chatting about how to go about the proceedings. Let the action begin!