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India beat New Zealand by 44 runs to arrange rerun of the Cricket World Cup ultimate towards Australia in final 4.

Spinner Varun Chakravarthy returned figures of 5-42 as India beat New Zealand by 44 runs to arrange a semifinal conflict with Australia in cricket’s Champions Trophy.

India gained all three of their group matches to prime Group A and can play the primary semifinal of the 50-over match in Dubai on Tuesday. The match is a rerun of the 2023 Cricket World Cup ultimate, which the Australians gained in Ahmedabad.

New Zealand will tackle Group B winners South Africa in Lahore on Wednesday.

India are taking part in all their matches on the Dubai Worldwide Stadium after they refused to tour hosts Pakistan because of safety causes.

India's Varun Chakravarthy, centre, celebrate the wicket of New Zealand's Glenn Phillips , right, during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri )
India’s Varun Chakravarthy, centre, celebrates the wicket of New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips, proper, through the ICC Champions Trophy match [Altaf Qadri/AP]

Australia and South Africa needed to journey to Dubai from Pakistan regardless of not realizing if they’d be taking part in there, as India had been informed forward of the match they’d play the primary semifinal in the event that they certified irrespective of the place they completed within the group.

South Africa will now must fly again to Pakistan forward of their assembly with New Zealand.

Shreyas Iyer’s 79 and a late 45 by Hardik Pandya steered India to 249-9 after being invited to bat first on Sunday.

New Zealand tempo bowler Matt Henry stood out with figures of 5-42 from his eight overs.

New Zealand's Matt Henry bowls a delivery during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
New Zealand’s Matt Henry is the primary participant to take 5 wickets towards India in a Champions Trophy match [Altaf Qadri/AP]

Chakravarthy took his first ODI five-wicket haul in simply his second match as India bowled out New Zealand for 205 in 45.3 overs regardless of a valiant 81 by Kane Williamson.

Williamson survived two dropped catches on 17 and 68 in his 120-ball knock earlier than he lastly fell, stumped off Axar Patel.

New Zealand misplaced Rachin Ravindra early as Patel took an outstanding catch to dismiss the opener for six.

Chakravarthy lower brief Will Younger’s innings on 22 when he bowled him with a googly.

New Zealand's Kane Williamson, left, celebrates his fifty runs with his batting partner Tom Latham during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri )
New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, left, celebrates his fifty runs together with his batting companion Tom Latham [Altaf Qadri/AP]

Williamson stood agency however couldn’t discover a long-term companion as Daryl Mitchell and Tom Latham had been dismissed for 17 and 14 respectively.

India’s spinners dominated in useful situations, as Kuldeep Yadav despatched again Mitchell and Ravindra Jadeja trapped Latham lbw.

In between the 2 wickets, Williamson hit Jadeja for a boundary to boost his forty seventh ODI half-century, however India stored taking wickets.

Earlier, India had been in bother at 30-3 when Virat Kohli, taking part in in his three hundredth one-day worldwide, fell sufferer to a surprising one-handed catch from Glenn Phillips.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - MARCH 02: Virat Kohli of India looks dejected as he leaves the field after being dismissed during the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match between New Zealand and India at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on March 02, 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
Virat Kohli scored a century towards Pakistan for India of their final match [Francois Nel/Getty Images]

An airborne Phillips clung on to a fast-travelling ball at backward level to dismiss Kohli for 11 off Henry.

Kohli was left standing in disbelief earlier than trudging off the bottom to surprised silence.

Iyer and Patel, who made 42, placed on 98 for the fourth wicket to rebuild the innings towards a disciplined New Zealand assault.

One other beautiful catch – this time by Williamson, who flung himself to his left at backward level to make a one-handed seize near the bottom – dismissed Jadeja for 16 off Henry.

Pandya struck 4 fours and two sixes in his run-a-ball innings to present India a complete that proved to be sufficient.

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