India Remains Unbeaten In Champions Trophy Faces Australia In Semi Finals

India has overcome New Zealand by 44 runs which was the finest match of Group B. Both teams had a few changes in their team where New Zealand added Kane Williamson and India added Varun Chakravarthy. New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first, India had a shaky start losing Rohit and Subhman Gill earlier. Even the King couldn't hold his innings more and caught out early which dismayed India into serious trouble. Early wicket gainers had huge advantage for New Zealand. 

 New Zealand displayed why they are the most successful team in this Trophy even though they had a slight change in the team. They were proactive in the field, but Shreyas Iyer had different plans. 

Iyer Stables The Innings

Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel started the re-building phase though being an aggressive batter he didn't let the approach down. Even Axar too gave the needy support to the innings. Once they crossed the tuff phases they showed their class. Shreyas reached his well-made 50. But Axar was removed in this process and Rahul backed the innings with Iyer. When everything seemed going well Iyer lost his wicket making well made 79 runs. 

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 Though India were quite lacking the par score and in quick session they lost Rahul too. It was Hardik Pandya who rescued India from difficult phase scoring 45 runs of 45 balls rest others gave there sub contribution. Though India wasn't able to score 250 runs, they were a run short of that. 

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New Zealand Fall And Australia On Cards

It looked like an easy chase for the New Zealand team having depth in batting. But when the chase started it was totally vice versa for New Zealand where they lost Rachin Ravindra early. It was a huge plus for India. From there India got a slight gateway entering into the match. Soon Will Young departed giving a surprise to the New Zealand dugout.

It was Kane Williamson who anchored the innings but on the other, he didn't get enough support. At the other end, wickets were failing at regular intervals. Once an innings began to be built it was dismantled early, but Williamson was holding one end fighting like a lone warrior. He made well made 50 but couldn't finish the job for his team. He got stumped by Kl Rahul and after his departure, it was a pile of cards and India won the match by 44 runs, thanks to Varun Chakravarthy who got well made fifer in his Champions Trophy debut. 

 India is having a biggest hurdle on their semi final chart that is Australia who have given really a tuff time to them. Who would have forget Travis Head knock in World Cup final 2023. Will the trend continue it will be seen in mere time.