India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy has started graciously for India. They are in a commanding position over them despite a poor start. New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first in the Champions Trophy final. Even New Zealand started the innings positively where Rachin and Young were hitting boundaries. India lost few chances of taking wickets which led to the fraustration for the team and the fans. 

Mohammad Shami jinks of not taking the catch still continued where he dropped Rachin Ravindra when he was on 17 it was a straight forward catch but missed by him. Then at the second time he was given out for a catch after the review it was found nothing was there. And Rachin gave another chance over leg side which went through the air and it was dropped by Shreyas Iyer, with lots of happening in the ground it gave a instinct that it was not Team India's day for today. 

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Kuldeep Yadav For Rescue 

When everything went against them then Captain Rohit Sharma gave ball to Kuldeep Yadav untill then Rachin Ravindra escaped a lot. But not this time Kuldeep 3rd delivery gated into the stumps  and breaked it with that India got a breakthrough and with that Kuldeep jinks with the ball in ICC Knockout games was also broken. It was Varun Chakravarthy who took the first wicket of Young Young. 

Next the proceedings were taken care by Kuldeep Yadav. Kuldeep had a good outing in this Champions Trophy but he was not clicking with the wickets. And what a day he choosed to do it. Rohit tried out with his pace bowlers but were leaking runs which was hurting them more. Soon he turned to his spinners who were getting some purchase from the wicket which was clearly visible too. 

One Brings Two Decides The Depictor

KKuldeep came to his next over with a short break of time and this time it was Williamson who hit straight back to Kuldeep Yadav and Kuldeep takes the sharp catch and departs the big fish who would be more dangerous if had stood more in the crease. There were questions raising about Kuldeep Yadav playing position being wicketless in ICC knockout games hurting India everytime. 

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This time Kuldeep Yadav gave his answers to all his critics who were questioning his position, even the great thing is that captain and coach had full confidence on him keeping him in the playing 11 and today he repaid the faith put on him. Those two crucial wickets has given India the cution of score not going above par of it.