Match officials On 6 March 2025, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) named England's
Richard Illingworth and Australia's
Paul Reiffel as the
on-field umpires, along with West Indies'
Joel Wilson as the
third umpire, Sri Lanka's
Kumar Dharmasena as the
reserve umpire, and
Ranjan Madugalle as
match referee. •
On-field umpires:
Richard Illingworth (Eng) and
Paul Reiffel (Aus) •
TV umpire:
Joel Wilson (WI) •
Reserve umpire:
Kumar Dharmasena (SL) •
Match referee:
Ranjan Madugalle (SL)
Teams and toss New Zealand's captain
Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bat. India remained unchanged from the side that played the semi-final, while New Zealand brought
Nathan Smith in place of
Matt Henry.
New Zealand's innings New Zealand openers
Will Young and
Rachin Ravindra made a good start with a 57-run partnership until,
Varun Chakravarthy dismissed Young in the end of the 8th over. Later,
Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Ravindra and
Kane Williamson in the following overs leaving them on 75 off 3. Soon,
Tom Latham was also cheaply dismissed by
Ravindra Jadeja. Later,
Daryl Mitchell stabilized the innings with 63 off 101 until being
caught by Indian captain
Rohit Sharma. As their innings got slowed but due to
Michael Bracewell's 53
* off 40 and
Glenn Phillips's 34 they ended up scoring 251 runs off 7 wickets with Yadav and Chakravarthy taking 2 wickets each and Jadeja and
Mohammed Shami taking 1 wicket each.
India's innings Chasing a target of 252 runs in 50 overs, India completed the chase within 49 overs and thus winning by 4 wickets. The innings started well with openers, captain
Rohit Sharma and
Shubman Gill sharing a 105-run partnership before Gill was caught out for 31 by
Glenn Phillips off the bowling of
Mitchell Santner in the 19th over.
Virat Kohli, coming in after Gill's wicket, was out early scoring a run of two balls, being dismissed cheaply by
Michael Bracewell.
Shreyas Iyer and
Axar Patel anchored the middle order with Iyer scoring 48 off 62 balls before being dismissed by Santner, while Patel contributed 29 runs off 40 balls before being dismissed by Bracewell.
KL Rahul remained unbeaten on 34 off 33 balls guiding India to victory alongside
Hardik Pandya, who scored 18 off 18 balls before being dismissed by
Kyle Jamieson.
Ravindra Jadeja finished not out on 9 off 6 balls scoring the winning runs with an over to spare.
Match details ;
Fall of wickets: 1/57 (Young, 7.5 ov), 2/69 (Ravindra, 10.1 ov), 3/75 (Williamson, 12.2 ov), 4/108 (Latham, 23.2 ov), 5/165 (Phillips, 37.5 ov), 6/211 (Mitchell, 45.4 ov), 7/239 (Santner, 49 ov) ;
Fall of wickets: 1/105 (Gill, 18.4 ov), 2/106 (Kohli, 19.1 ov), 3/122 (Rohit, 26.1 ov), 4/183 (Iyer, 38.4 ov), 5/203 (Patel, 41.3 ov), 6/241 (Pandya, 47.3 ov) == Aftermath ==