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Ind vs NZ: A spin cycle for Champions Trophy glory

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  Big picture: The two best spin-bowling units Everybody knows how this is going to play out. India will lean on the strength of their spinners, who on occasion have challenged the idea that runs even belong in the game of cricket.  Kuldeep Yadav  and  Varun Chakravarthy  are probably allowed to do that. One minute, they toss a tiny white ball down the pitch, the next a full-grown man at the other end becomes a footnote in history without knowing what happened. But the other two? The left-arm orthodoxers? One of them doesn't even do it right.  Axar Patel  is supposed to turn the ball. And by all accounts, he does try. He runs in steady. He gives it a good rip. But the ball just never listens. All it wants to do after leaving Axar's hand is crash into the stumps. India's four spinners have produced 21 wickets in the  Champions Trophy 2025 . That's more than the other three World Cup winners in this competition combined.   Dubai h...