India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets to win the 2025 Champions Trophy in Dubai on Sunday (March 9, 2025), including a seventh ICC trophy to their cupboard whereas registering their third win on this eight-team occasion.
India have been one of the perfect groups in world cricket having made it to knockout levels persistently, together with getting into the summit clashes in 2003 ODI World Cup, 2017 Champions Trophy, 2023 ODI World Cup and twice within the finals of the World Test Championship within the 2019-21 and 2021-23 cycles.
Overall, Australia are probably the most profitable workforce throughout codecs having won the ODI World Cup six instances (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2023), T20 World Cup as soon as in 2021, Champions Trophy twice in 2006 and 2009 and the WTC as soon as within the 2021-23 cycle, to take their trophy rely to 10 in world cricket occasions.
The PTI takes a take a look at the ICC tournaments won by the Indian workforce prior to now:
1983 ODI World Cup: With India’s first-ever triumph in a worldwide cricket occasion, Kapil Dev’s workforce proved their mettle towards all odds and introduced down the mighty West Indies, who had won the competitors twice in a row, in a low-scoring summit conflict at Lord’s.
2002 Champions Trophy (shared with Sri Lanka): Despite having co-hosted the 1996 ODI World Cup, India fell brief within the semifinal in crushing circumstances and bowed out with the resolve to get higher. The workforce underneath the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly entered the ultimate unbeaten, however persistent rains in Colombo on September 29 and 30 (reserve day) compelled India and the hosts Sri Lanka to share the trophy.
2007 ICC World T20: At a time when maybe no cricket board together with India took the shortest format significantly, a younger squad underneath a younger chief in MS Dhoni created historical past once they pipped arch-rivals Pakistan in a tense remaining to win within the inaugural version of the competitors.
2011 ODI World Cup: The strain was immense on the Indian workforce to finish an extended and elusive anticipate the ODI World Cup trophy. Dhoni’s workforce, with Sachin Tendulkar because the cynosure of all eyes, completed their mission once they beat Sri Lanka within the remaining in Mumbai by six wickets to win their second 50-overs World Cup, after a wait of 28 lengthy years.
2013 Champions Trophy: Dhoni’s management and his status as India’s most profitable captain when it got here to ICC occasions received a strong enhance when his facet beat England in a rain-curtailed remaining at Edgbaston. In a low-scoring contest wherein Ravindra Jadeja’s late 25-ball 35 pushed India to 129/7, Dhoni’s tactical acumen mixed with brilliance within the area gave them a five-run win.
2024 T20 World Cup: With two of their largest superstars Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma on the brink of retirement within the shortest format, India have been determined to finish one other drought of profitable an ICC occasion regardless of being favourites in every competitors invariably each time.
It took rather a lot of laborious work, for Rohit and head coach Rahul Dravid needed to convey out the gamers from the frustration of dropping the ultimate of the 2023 ODI World Cup at house a number of months in the past. Unarguably the perfect workforce within the competitors as soon as once more, India held their nerves to beat South Africa by seven runs to win the trophy for the second time.
Published – March 09, 2025 10:48 pm IST
