On December 18, 2024, Mitchell Santner took over as New Zealand’s White-Ball captain, with his first major leadership assignment 2025 Champions Trophy. Cut so far, and Santner is now ready to lead Blackcap in the tournament struggle against India in Dubai on Sunday. New Zealand is always known as a side punching over its weight in the ICC tournament and gives a tough challenge to any opposition team.
There is a SWOT analysis from IANS on Santner -led New Zealand to play in the 2025 Champions Trophy final.
Strength: New Zealand’s strength lies in both batting and bowling departments. With the bat, Rachin Ravindra has been prominent, as he has been seen by two centuries in the tournament. Kane Williamson has been at his premiere Best in the last two matches, while Will Young, Derryl Michel, Tom Latham and Glenn Philips Blackcaps give more strength to the batting line-up.
Along with the ball, the presence of Santner, Philips, Ravindra and Michael Bracewell means that their base is included in the spin-bowling department. His fielding is also at the top, as is the best team in terms of catch efficiency in the tournament from New Zealand.
Weakness: Although New Zealand played a group A match against India in Dubai, he lost by 44 runs after the election to bowl first. In that game, 5–42 of Matt Henry helped him to keep India up to 249, but he was unable to chase it. If Henry is unavailable due to shoulder issue, it weakens their sharp-lord-ups.
No one can last long to chase the batsman, except Williamson’s brave 81. It also did not help that he was undone from mesmerizing Varun Chakarwarthi’s spin bowling, who also took 5-42. If a similar situation comes out in the finals, where Chakarvardi shines again, it will cause Blackcaps batting recession.
opportunity: Williamson said that New Zealand would be more ready for Dubai’s position after a 50 -run win in South Africa, winning the title would mean that a large silver utensils coming for him after winning India in the opening edition of the competition in 2000.
In addition, many of his players such as Williamson did not take a central contract to play opportunities in the Franchise T20 League, there is a perception that international cricket talent in New Zealand is on Wayne. A champion trophy win will reduce all those questions for good.
Threat: India is an invincible force in the Champions Trophy – in bat, ball and fielding. Rohit Sharma -led side will be furious with the fact that he has not lost a game in this competition in Dubai.
In addition, with fans in attendance at the site supporting the Indian team in Dubai on Sunday, all this pursues a big threat to New Zealand – if the Indian juggling continues on Sunday, it will be difficult for Santner and the company to prevent them from reaching the championship glory.
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