India vs New Zealand Final ICC Champions Trophy 2025: New Zealand coach Gary Stead admitted that Varun Chakraborty would be the biggest threat to his team in the Champions Trophy final against India on Sunday and his team would have to increase the scope of thinking to deal with this mysterious spinner. Let me tell you, Team India, led by Rohit Sharma, has reached the finals by defeating Australia in the semi -finals of India Champions Trophy, while New Zealand has reached the title match by defeating South Africa.
Gary Stead told reporters on Friday, “He took five wickets for 42 runs in the last match against us, so we have all hope to play. He is a very good bowler and he presented a great sample of his skills in the last match against us. He is the biggest threat to us in this match.” He said, “So we have to focus our thinking on how we can thwart it and how to score against him.”
Stead said that for this his team will learn something from the league stage against India. Along with this, he did not give any special attention to this that India will get the benefit of being well aware of the circumstances here. He said, “It is not in our hands to prepare the program, so we do not need to worry too much about it. India played all our matches here in Dubai but we also got a chance to play a match here and we would like to learn from that experience.”
Stead said, “When you come to this stage of the tournament. I mean to say that in the beginning we had eight teams and now it is two. It is very exciting to reach this point and we believe that it is also like another match and if we are successful in defeating India by showing a good game on Sunday, I will be very happy.”
The New Zealand team had to come to Dubai to play Group A’s last match and then return to Pakistan to play semi -finals against South Africa. Stead admitted that this program was quite busy but his team is capable of keeping in harmony with such circumstances.
He said, “There is no doubt that we are coming here playing in Lahore and we spent the whole day of the journey yesterday. It makes a little trouble but now we have enough time to get ready for the match.” Stead said, “We are now in the final stages of the tournament and sometimes do not need to practice too much. You just need to bring your body and mind to the right position to play in the final and we will focus our attention on it for the next two days.”
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