ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan VS New Zealand – Start, Teams, Review | Current news
WHO: Pakistan VS New Zealand
What: ICC Champions Trophy 2025
Where: National Stadium, Karachi, Pakistan
When: Wednesday, February 19 at 2 pm (09:00 GMT)
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Open Pakistan host nation and New Zealand ICC Champion Trophy 2025 At the National Stadium in Karachi on Wednesday on both sides, which wanted to lay an earlier marker for the tournament.
Pakistan are other favorites, behind India, to win the tournament but lost the last warming match against New Zealand Friday to increase reflectors on this match.
2023 Winners of the Cricket World CupAustralia, they are also a team to win, but Al Jazeera carefully looked at the cultivation of the curtain in Karachi between the two sides that hope to abolish the trophy on March 9th.
Why are Pakistan defenders not favorites?
Pakistan abolished the last edition of the champion trophy By defeating India in the 2017 finalsBut defeated finalists are favorites for the tournament based on their consistency.
It’s Pakistan Key players who get a match In the form of Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afidi, both of the former captains, but the ability to implod at any stage in any match and any series led to the reputation that preceded them.
The turbulence outside the field also does not help. Gary Kirsten last year was appointed a white ball trainer but He stops soon And it was replaced by a test match coach, Jason Gillespie. A former Australian bowler soon followed His South African predecessor behind the door seemed to be both popular figures with players.
What are the chances of new Zealand on the champion trophy?
New Zealand, who raised the champion trophy in 2000 The defeated finalists in the 2019 World Cup finals. And it can never be written off in the main tournaments. Although it cannot boast the population of any other main teams in the tournament and beyond, Kiwis mercilessly ejects a talent that impresses the global stage and in domestic competitions around the world.
Kivi are currently in fourth place in the world, so they have to be considered a serious candidate, but at the top of two favorites, as well as the World Cup owners in Australia, and their 2019 winners won, England will be a high order.
When was Pakistan hosted a big tournament last?
In recent years, the International Cricket in Pakistan has been strongly limited after the attacker’s attack on a team of crisletters in Sri Lahore in Lahore in 2009, which wounded six players.
Pakistan was avoided the top teams after the attackAnd the champion trophy marks the first major global tournament to host in the country for almost 30 years.
Form Guide – Pakistan
Despite their defeat to New Zealand before the tournament, Pakistan brings a surprisingly good book forms with him to the tournament. Men in Green won the last three bilateral goals on the road, which includes a 2-1 triumph over the world champion in Australia and 3-0 landing on the side of South Africa.
Form Guide – New Zealand
The micro and macro books of the New Zealand Book is impressive. The kiwi has reached the knockout phase of the ICC World Cup four of the last five tournaments. They also carry the victory of three series against Pakistan and South Africa-Diyak, who have overcome the ex twice.
Sri Lanka, who failed to qualify for the champion trophy, equalized her series in New Zealand 2-2 in January, and the hosts slipped for four games for 150 in the last match of the series. No dough except Mark Chapman (81) is 20.
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New Zealand has completed a recent series of Pakistan dominance in GODS between the sides, winning three of the last four meetings. Previously, Pakistan asked for a win in seven of the last nine completed games.
Pakistani team news
Pakistan is likely to be unchanged by which New Zealand was defeated before the champion trophy.
Captain Mohammad Rizwan suggested that the retention of faith in the players will remain a strategy that Pakistan takes, instead of chopping and changing, entering the tournament.
New Zealand team news
New Zealand suffered another failure before the champion trophy, losing Lockie Ferguson due to a foot injury.
The fast bowling was injured in heating against Afghanistan on Sunday.
His place in Novi Zealand was taken by Kyle Jamieson, who played his latest one -day international in September 2023.
Ferguson injury is accompanied by the loss of another fast bowlers, Ben Sears, to a knee injury.
Pakistan
Detachment: Mohammad Rizwan (Captain), Salman Ali AGha (Vice Captain), Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel, Tayyab Tahir, Faheem Ashraf, Khushdil Shah, Usman Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain Shaheen Shah Afidi
New Zealand Department
Detachment: Mitchell Santner (Captain), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway (Wickekekekper), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham (Wickekekeket), Daryl Mitchell, Will O’Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravidra, Nathan Smith . Kane Williamson, Will Young
