A quartet of New Zealand cricketers have been named in the ICC Champions Trophy tournament team after their loss in the final.
India beat the Black Caps by four wickets in the final on their 'home' ground in Dubai, while the New Zealand side travelled from Pakistan to the Middle East twice.
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Spinner Mitchell Santner is picked as captain, player of the tournament Rachin Ravindra to open, allrounder Glenn Phillips and the tournament's top wicket taker Matt Henry are in the eleven.
Ravindra scored two centuries at the tournament and finished top runscorer with 251 runs averaging 62.75.
Santner finished second equalwicket taker with nine, while Phillips outstanding fielding added to that a strong batting performance with 177 runs, averaging 59 and also picking up two wickets saw him included.
Henry despite being ruled out of the final with a shoulder injury finished top of the wicket taking list with ten.
Winners India have six players in the side batters Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Shreyas Iyer, wicket keeper KL Rahul, pace bowler Mohammed Shami, and leg spinner Varun Chakarvarthy.
The only players not from New Zealand or India are Afghanistan opener Ibrahim Zahran and allrounder Azmatullah Omarzai.
Omarzai was last year's men's ODI player of the year and took 5-58 against England, taking seven wickets in total at the tournament and scoring 126 at an average of 42.
India won nearly $4 million in prizemoney in winning the final while the Black Caps picked up $2.12 million in finishing runners-u