The Champions Trophy: Final Round Games and Semi-Final Preview

Here come the semi-finals of the 2025 Champions Trophy. The same teams that played in the 2023 WC semi-finals have made it to the semi-finals of this tournament and done so in a convincing manner.

India has been looking at its best with three very strong showings while New Zealand was very good until they got tripped up by a sublime show by the Indian spinners. South Africa is looking like a complete team as they won their two games that were played in very convincing style. The Australia fought back to win against England albeit easily and were looking in very good shape against the Afghans as well. Without doubt the four teams that played the best made it to the semi-finals.

In this conversation we will take a look at the last 4 games of the league phase and will do a preview of the semi-finals

During the chat we touch upon the following questions -

1. Is India unstoppable ?
2. Who will India pick in their semis after Varun gave them a good problem to have ?
3. Can New Zealand return to their efficient best after a slip-up ?
4. Will South Africa continue their merry ways or will they hit their play-off wall once more ?
5. Australia is missing their big quicks, but would anyone underestimate them ?
6. Did India really have an unfair advantage ?
7. How could ICC mess up the scheduling so badly ?

Participants:

• Vasant Kumar
• Ramakrishnan G Iyer
• Anand Kumar Sankaran
• Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

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