Hawan, Aarti and Puja started for India's victory, passion for cricket is at its peak, video

IND vs NZ CT 2025 Final: The final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played between India and New Zealand on Sunday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Prayers are being done for India's victory. Indian fans are engaged in worship. Hawan, Aarti and Rudrabhishek have also been done at many places At one place, a fan wearing Team India's jersey was seen doing Aarti of Lord Shiva. Cricket fans in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh were seen performing Aarti for India's victory and a video of this is going viral.

IND vs NZ CT 2025 Final

The final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 will be played between India and New Zealand on Sunday at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Prayers are being made for India's victory. Indian fa India and New Zealand ns are busy performing puja. Havan, Aarti and Rudrabhishek have also been performed at many places. At one place, a fan wearing Team India's jersey was seen performing aarti of Lord Shiva. In Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, cricket fans were seen performing aarti for India's victory and a video of this is going viral.

#WATCH | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh: Cricket fans perform 'aarti' as they pray for India's victory in tomorrow's Champions Trophy clash against New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/mN82butoPV

— ANI (@ANI) March 8, 2025

India defeated New Zealand in the group match

Although India has defeated New Zealand in the group match of this tournament, but a tough match is expected in the final. The Indian team will have to avoid getting emotional about veterans like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and all the players of the team will have to give their best performance. Also Read: IND vs NZ: Top 5 Indian batsmen list, which scored most, runs in Champions Trophy final

New Zealand has always proved to be a tough challenge for India and New Zealand has the upper hand in ICC tournaments. New Zealand has won three out of four matches against India in ICC knockout matches. Watch Pooja's video here...

New Zealand has always proved to be a tough challenge

India's biggest strength at the moment is its spin quartet, which has been very successful on the flat pitch of Dubai. India is full of confidence. It seems that even in the final, Team India will go with a combination of four spinners and two fast bowlers.

      Also Read: 'Due to barking of a fanatic...' Fans angry on controversy of Mohammed Shami's fast, lashed out If the final is played on the same pitch where the match between India and Pakistan was held, then these four bowlers can trap the Kiwi team badly in the spin web. However, the New Zealand team also has veteran spinners like Santner, Bracewell, Rachin and Glenn Phillips.

India lost to New Zealand in the final 25 years ago

The biggest hope for New Zealand will be the batting of Kane Williamson and Rachin Ravindra. Both have played many big innings so far. Rachin has also scored two centuries in this tournament, although his bat did not work in the group match against India. New Zealand's spinners troubled India a lot in the Test series last year and once again they would like to repeat that performance in an attempt to win the ICC ODI title.

 Twenty-five years ago in Nairobi, New Zealand won the knockout tournament by defeating India in the final.

The teams are as follows

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakraborty. New Zealand: Mitchell Santner (captain), Michael Bracewell, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Smith, Kane Williamson, Will Young, Jacob Duffy.Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Will O'Rourke, Glenn Phillips.