India (249/9) defeat New Zealand (205) by 45 runs to fix a clash with Australia in the first semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy 2025

[emranabbas]

Winner plays Australia in the semifinals

Is it not 1st place of group A plays 2nd place of group

Just checked Australia are finished 2nd all really depends on Afghanistan vs s Africa game then

 

[jnaveen1980]

Anyway credit to outstanding fielding from NZ. This is what seperates NZ and Australia. THey field brilliantly.

 

[Devadwal]

Moment Iyer got out India got into a pressure situation. Look who went missing. Lord Rahul.

We were well set for 300 but Iyer gone at the wrong time

 

[jnaveen1980]

Is it not 1st place of group A plays 2nd place of group

Just checked Australia are finished 2nd all really depends on Afghanistan vs s Africa game then

Afghanistan already lost to SA.

 

[OldWarHorse]

Is it not 1st place of group A plays 2nd place of group

Just checked Australia are finished 2nd all really depends on Afghanistan vs s Africa game then

Afghans lost already. Australia have finished 2nd in the other group

 

[emranabbas]

Oh damn this is the last game then I've not watched a single game after 23rd Feb

 

[Banda298]

@Devadwal u don't have a single wk in India of jamies calibre
He is a certified test atg.

jamies ? u mean jamieson ??

 

[FearlessRoar]

 

[Mesozoic]

Satner = Steve smith
Henry = Travis head

Since satner only dominates India in tests

Lol what? Santner owned us in 2016 WT20, 2019 WC SF ,and 2021 T20 WC virtual knockout game..

 

[jnaveen1980]

India cannot catch like that. They had field set down to a T for every batsman.

 

[Mesozoic]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1896130044201947630

To be fair...we should be more worried about facing this NZ team in the final than Australia in the SF (if we get there).

Apart from Head , no one invokes fear in us from that Australian team..but NZ has half a dozen or so who always turn up against us.

 

[Vikram1989]

4 spinner so surely one is going to bowl With New ball.

May be varun i guess.rachin struggled against washi in tests

 

[mominsaigol]

Lol what? Santner owned us in 2016 WT20, 2019 WC SF ,and 2021 T20 WC virtual knockout game..

Okay santner = Mcgrath for India

 

[jnaveen1980]

Hope Pandya doesn't get injured as usual.

 

[cricfan1992]

40 overs of spin , I am really excited for chakravarthy

 

[Mesozoic]

India cannot catch like that. They had field set down to a T for every batsman.

Australia and New Zealand are usually 60% strategy and 40% skillset. That's truly out kryptonite.

We can deal with teams who play flamboyant aggresive cricket but we just cannot get past the ones that do meticulous planning and have answers to our plan A (we usually do not have plan B).

 

[cricfan1992]

this is match is practice match of CT final

 

[cricfan1992]

Williamson will be key in this run chase and Mitchell has to play a good role

 

[jnaveen1980]

Australia and New Zealand are usually 60% strategy and 40% skillset. That's truly out kryptonite.

We can deal with teams who play flamboyant aggresive cricket but we just cannot get past the ones that do meticulous planning and have answers to our plan A (we usually do not have plan B).

India has to bring their A game to nullify it. But sadly they succumb to it.

 

[Advaith]

To be fair...we should be more worried about facing this NZ team in the final than Australia in the SF (if we get there).

Apart from Head , no one invokes fear in us from that Australian team..but NZ has half a dozen or so who always turn up against us.

Let Aussie handle these newzelanders , we can handle Aussies later ...

 

[kron]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1896137254483153205

Pussies If they are trying to avoid Aussies who are beatable

Only in grand finals Aus is not beatable

Semis and stuff they are very very beatable

 

[kron]

To be fair...we should be more worried about facing this NZ team in the final than Australia in the SF (if we get there).

Apart from Head , no one invokes fear in us from that Australian team..but NZ has half a dozen or so who always turn up against us.

Latham
Henry
Santner

These 3 usually do well vs india

From india
Iyer
Shami
Pandya
All do well vs nz

Worst players are kohli Rohit and rahul

 

[kron]

Who the hell would play with 4 spinners lmao????

 

[kron]

Think India want cricket to be a niche sport

No casuals will watch this **** if spinners dominate

Pace is what brings fans to stadium

 

[jnaveen1980]

They will bore us to win. Kiws methodical and boring cricket just get to us.

 

[Ahmed216]

Oh ok
So not kohli
Not fatty
Not Rahul mental midget

But we should blame Iyer and axar who steadied the ship? Oh ok
Got it

There's no room consolidation in modern game. They should have batted at 140 SR from ball 1 even after early wickets

 

[Ahmed216]

Hardik following through like Malcolm Marshall

 

[kron]

If we know shami is not fit then why the hell are we playing him????

 

[kron]

Rochin Sachindra lmao

 

[Rana]

That Varun fielding convinced me India are trying to lose this

 

[AAli98]

Fielder deliberately kicks it over the boundary.. tells me Ind are scared of Aus in the semis.

 

[jnaveen1980]

That Varun fielding convinced me India are trying to lose this

That is Varun's best fielding effort lol He is one of the worst fielder in the world. Just remember he was working as an architect. Suddenly practiced with tennis ball and became a cricketer. He is not formally trained cricketer. His other areas are pathetic

 

[Itachi]

That Varun fielding convinced me India are trying to lose this

He is an accidental cricketer

 

[jnaveen1980]

Danish Kaneria's fielding long back , infact still bring me laughter. This is similar to that.

 

[kron]

Sachin Sochi. Sochin

Lmao

Like I said. Just listen to me you dumbos

He is just not that great
He can’t play pace/bounce

Period

Period
I repeat again
Period
I strike again and I strike hot as always

Not weak like sweep shot

 

[Bewal Express]

This is the weakest IND team for a long time. With Bumrah they look very average

 

[cricfan1992]

Ravindra is double agent

 

[Bhaijaan]

Out

Hardik Roberts gets the first one

 

[Itachi]

This is the weakest IND team for a long time. With Bumrah they look very average

Yeah. When I saw the team, same came in my mind. Even without Bumrah, they could have made different combo. Pandya is the 2nd seamer here!

 

[kron]

Ravindra is double agent

He literally helped nz beat India in the test series

Stop this nonsense

 

[Devadwal]

Williamson is always score against india . So I'm not surprised if he play a match winning knock

 

[RidiculousMan]

He literally helped nz beat India in the test series

Stop this nonsense

Now he's helping India. Double agent for a reason

 

[Devadwal]

That Varun fielding convinced me India are trying to lose this

Abhi se bhai excuse start?

 

[cricfan1992]

young has matured in the last 2 years
first in test series vs india then century vs pakistan in CT and now also playing comfortably

 

[Mesozoic]

This is going to be a boring chase. Young, KW, Mitchell, Latham are all very methodical batters who will just do enough to get the job done.

 

[Devadwal]

Varun fielding is not international level

 

[U$ofA]

Jadeja, Iyer, Kohli, Gill. That's an excellent set of fielders all on the off side.

 

[jnaveen1980]

India has cost 6 runs due to misfield already. this is the difference between Asian teams and NZ and Australia

 

[Devadwal]

Iyer Bhai is overreacting on the field and gave a single

 

[Vikram1989]

This is going to be a boring chase. Young, KW, Mitchell, Latham are all very methodical batters who will just do enough to get the job done.

Spinners can be confident that they are not going to bashing any good balls or unpredictable shots like Maxwell,head . Almost test kind of stuff

 

[kron]

India has cost 6 runs due to misfield already. this is the difference between Asian teams and NZ and Australia

Yet nz are still unable to win a single icc World Cup event

 

[kron]

India has cost 6 runs due to misfield already. this is the difference between Asian teams and NZ and Australia

Usually a good fielder. First time misplaced

 

[kron]

Playing four spinners is suicidal for the growth of the game.

Pacers win causuals hearts
Need 4 pacers and only one or 2 spinners

 

[kron]

Will young is a class player

Great technique

 

[RahulBose]

I don't understand why spinners don't get same respect as fast bowlers do.
I mean, i understand genuinely fast bowlers are hard to get, but that doesn't mean spinners are less of a bowler....


It is a dimension of the bowling art and should be celebrated at the same level, it is a human fallacy rather than a fault with the dimension.

A nice slow wicket is beautiful to watch when the batsmen are dancing to the tune of spinners .

 

[jnaveen1980]

8 runs due to misfields so far

 

[jnaveen1980]

10 runs so far due to misfield.

 

[Devadwal]

I don't find anything special in Varun bowling

 

[kron]

Mystery spinner hahahha
Kuch bhi
Yea mystery for Indian team cause he will get to med around

 

[Devadwal]

It was close

 

[kron]

Mystery spinner hahahha
Kuch bhi
Yea mystery for Indian team cause he will get to med around

Tonked*

 

[kron]

I don't find anything special in Varun bowling

Special missile designed to malfunction and hurt our own team

 

[Bhaijaan]

If we lose, what a poor team it is, told you from the beginning, should have picked better pace attack, too many spinners, RoKo must go

If we win, unfair advantage for Bharat, packed their attack with spinners, best bowling attack in the tournament playing all matches on suitable pitches

 

[Devadwal]

It was close

Show me This replay. Im waiting

 

[kron]

If we lose, what a poor team it is, told you from the beginning, should have picked better pace attack, too many spinners, RoKo must go

If we win, unfair advantage for Bharat, packed their attack with spinners, best bowling attack in the tournament playing all matches on suitable pitches

Rook must go regardless
I can find 4 players than can get into this team and make it a trophy winning. Side

Also Kl Rahul is finished
He should eff off for good

And 4 spinners is overkill
Max 2 always
Or 3 if it turns
3 pacers is needed

 

[jnaveen1980]

Rahul dropped the catch

 

[kron]

Mitchell
Latham
And Bracewell can bat
Santner is decent too

 

[Devadwal]

Dropped. KL is useless with bat and now as an Wk

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Why is Pant not in this team it's madness

 

[OldWarHorse]

Rahul dropped the catch

That's a tough one

 

[kron]

Rahul dropped the catch

Mental midget king
Again at it

Will this ever be dropped permanentl

 

[jnaveen1980]

That's a tough one

lol What Ltaham had was tough one. He took it easily. This guy is wrong footed to start with.

 

[kron]

That's a tough one

It’s rahul
He sucks regardless

 

[kron]

lol What Ltaham had was tough one. He took it easily. This guy is wrong footed to start with.

Why play him?
For Sunil shetty?
This Chomu looking turd has so much power lmao?

He shouldn’t be part of the team

 

[Rana]

Gorgeous ball

 

[kron]

What a ball
Credit where credit is due

 

[kron]

Gorgeous ball

Yea good one

But can he do that vs Aus?

 

[kron]

Gazza is the strongest new zeland player
Powerful build

 

[jnaveen1980]

KL Rahul doesn't collect anything

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Win or loss, India has unfair advantage

If we lose, what a poor team it is, told you from the beginning, should have picked better pace attack, too many spinners, RoKo must go

If we win, unfair advantage for Bharat, packed their attack with spinners, best bowling attack in the tournament playing all matches on suitable pitches