During the India vs New Zealand match in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, a big moment happened at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. KL Rahul dropped an important catch of Kane Williamson during Axar Patel’s over. Williamson tried to play a cut shot but got a thick edge. KL Rahul moved back to take the catch, but the ball slipped through his hands. This miss gave Williamson another chance to stay at the crease. Watch the clip: Na wicketkeeping ho rahi hai na batting ho rahi hai why KL in this team ? pic.twitter.com/S8SZuKLWve — FIRE⁴⁵ 2.0 (@RagingFire_45) March 2, 2025 India completed their group-stage of the current edition of the Champions Trophy with an unbeaten record by winning the match against New Zealand by 44 runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, March 2. The win ensured that they will face Australia in the semi-final at the same ground on Tuesday, March 4. Rohit Sharma lost the toss once again on another occasion, his tenth in a row,. His team was asked to bat first. A top-order collapse left India reeling at 37/3 at the end of the powerplay. Shreyas Iyer combined with Axar Patel to navigate their team into safer waters. Axar was gone in the 30th over for a well-crafted 42. Iyer took his 22nd ODI half-century before Axar fell. The brisk delivery summoned the collapse of Iyer, who departed for a well-compiled 98-ball 79-run innings. Also Read | 3 Reasons Why Pakistan Failed in Champions Trophy 2025 Mitchell Santner won his first wicket of the afternoon when KL Rahul nicked one behind. Hardik Pandya, slow from the start, steadily picked up the pace with his strike. Overs from the 42 and 44 saw no boundaries being scored. The turning point occurred at the penultimate over of the innings, when Hardik scored 15 off Kyle Jamieson's over. Matt Henry finished off the innings by picking a couple of wickets in the last over, claiming his first five-wicket haul over India in his 11th ODI game. Arriving at New Zealand's response, the threat man, Rachin Ravindra, went early in the game by cutting to Axar at deep third. Kane Williamson walked in at No.3, along with Will Young, in an attempt to steer the run-chase. Young went shortly after the powerplay ended. From then on, the spinners applied the squeeze on the Kiwis' batting group. Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham, and Glenn Phillips received starts, but were not able to make their starts pay. Santner then tried his best to take the match close after the fall of Williamson. It was, however, a master bowling performance by mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy, which became the difference in the end. Arriving as an experimental substitute in place of Harshit Rana, the 33-year-old bowled his heart out during his second ODI of his life. He went on to concede brilliant figures of 5/42 at the conclusion of his 10-over limit. Will O'Rourke was the last to depart, with the Black Caps getting bowled out for 205 in 45.3 overs.