India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy: Weather Report and Pitch Report of Dubai International Stadium
A highly confident Team India is set to lock horns with New Zealand in the 12th match of the ICC Men's Champions Trophy 2025. This will be the final group stage match of the tournament before progressing to the semi-finals. This highly entertaining encounter will be played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Sunday, 2nd of March.
Since it's the last group stage game for both teams, they will be looking to end the initial phase on a high as the battle for finishing at the top of the Group-A points table heats up.
The Rohit Sharma-led side are in amazing form having secured comfortable victories over Bangladesh and Pakistan and are currently sitting at the top of the table in Group-A.
Mitchell Santner's New Zealand, on the other hand, are in sublime form as well having won the tri series in Pakistan with ease and they have also secured easy wins versus Bangladesh & Pakistan and they are at the second place.
As both teams will be aiming to end the group stage phase as the table toppers, let's take a look at the weather report and pitch report of the Dubai International Cricket Stadium for this nail-biting encounter.
India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy: Weather report of the city of Dubai
In accordance to the weather reports of AccuWeather, the city of Dubai is set to experience a bright and sunny skies which is going to be perfect for the India New Zealand Cricket match. The temperature is anticipated to hover around the 24-25 degrees Celsius zone and the wind gusts are likely to blow at a speed of 20km/hr.
There's just a 1% chance of rainfall intervening with the game and this proves to be promising bas fans of both teams will be able to watch a full 50-over game.
India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy: Pitch Report of the Dubai International Cricket Stadium
The Dubai International Cricket Stadium isn't known for producing high-scoring contests and this is not expected to change in the India versus New Zealand encounter.
As usual, the stadium'a surface will be on the slower side, with a balanced contest expected to take place between the batters & the bowlers. The batters will have to work hard to score on this pitch while the bowlers, on the other hand, will be looking to exploit the conditions on offer.
The seamers will trouble the batters with the new ball while the spinners can prove to be crucial in the middle phase of the innings.
India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy: Probable playing 11's of both teams
India: Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma (Captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul (WK), Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav.
New Zealand: Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Glenn Phillips, Tom Latham (WK), Mitchell Santner (Captain), Michael Bracewell, Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry and Will O'Rourke.