New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s ‘Champions Trophy 2025’ Remark Leaves PM Narendra Modi Amused – Video

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was left amused by his New Zealand counterpart Christopher Luxon’s hilarious touch upon the Champions Trophy 2025 remaining throughout their assembly on Monday. During his tackle, Luxon mentioned that he intentionally prevented to speak about cricket and the Champions Trophy remaining with the intention to stop a “diplomatic incident”. India defeated New Zealand within the summit conflict to assert the Champions Trophy 2025 title in Dubai. Luxon additionally talked about the three-0 Test sequence win for New Zealand in India final 12 months that finally knocked the Rohit Sharma-led aspect out of the World Test Championship (WTC) Final race.

“I really appreciate that PM Modi didn’t bring up New Zealand’s Champions Trophy loss to India, and I didn’t mention our Test victories in India. Let’s keep it that way and avoid a diplomatic incident,” Luxon mentioned whereas PM Modi was seen laughing on the banter.

Former New Zealand cricket workforce batter Ross Taylor was additionally in attendance and even he was left amused by the banter between the 2 world leaders throughout the occasion.

𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚-𝐍𝐙 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭!

At the joint press meet, PM Luxon joked about New Zealand’s current losses to India in cricket, thanking PM @narendramodi for not bringing it up.

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Luxon additionally praised the Indian cricket workforce for his or her dominant show in current instances.

“During PM Modi’s tenure, the men in blue (Indian cricket team) have been the most dominant side in cricket, most recently winning the Champions Trophy in Dubai against my men in black (New Zealand cricket team). They broke many many New Zealanders’ hearts in the process, including mine. I will be the bigger person and just say congratulations,” Luxon mentioned, based on PTI.