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India (254/6) thump New Zealand (251/7) by 4 wickets to win the ICC Champions Trophy 2025

Congrats to Indian fans. This is a sweet victory for many reasons. KL has almost redeemed himself after that pathetic WC final. Looks like the jinx has been broken at the cost of losing tosses. Incredible how India won every game after losing the toss nullifying the familiar conditions a bit. Beating the 2nd best team twice is very special.
 
Golu-momin said:
@sweep_shot @mominsaigol @Kriketer @Bhaag Viru Bhaag @jamie smith @Major 🤣it must be hard for you guys pls bring now your conspiracy theories and coping mechanisms
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No it’s already read. Haven’t you heard?
Pitch rigged to favour india
Drs tampered to favour India even though there was hardly any lbw
India won the Dubai cup
India paid of umpires
India tampered with the ball when bowling to favour the spinners
Also India purposely got Matt Henry injured

India don’t miss 4 players at all. It’s all a myth.
 
Congratulations to India for winning a rigged tournament 😔
rhony said:
Congrats to Indian fans. This is a sweet victory for many reasons. KL has almost redeemed himself after that pathetic WC final. Looks like the jinx has been broken at the cost of losing tosses. Incredible how India won every game after losing the toss nullifying the familiar conditions a bit. Beating the 2nd best team twice is very special.
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Banda298 said:
He smashes the crap out of u and all his haters today with his knock.

Cometh the hour ..cometh the man....
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Well done to him. Congrats to all Indian fans. My gripe is more with kohli and he failed yet again

Rohit yes he is everything I said. One good inning doesn’t change that. However this win has bought him some time

He is 37 cmon for **** sakes and unfit

He has to go soon

We have jaiswal waiting for **** sakes who is way more talented
 
jamie smith said:
Congratulations to India for winning a rigged tournament 😔
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try even qualifying for any icc event in near future. u guys will ne relegated to the zimbabwes of the world if u keep that loser attitude.

u guys lost in group stage in ur own country, lost the final , and still ur losing even now by crying like pathetic sore chumps
 
nish_mate said:
No one moaning about Indias lack of titles now? Or we considering Tests only now??? Up yours Sweepers..
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Tbf I really want to be test number 1 again

That is the pinnacle

We missed out due to injuries

Shami and co got injured at the worst possible time vs nz and Aus in tests

I don’t care about *** final but world number 1 in tests is the pinnacle of cricket
 
I had said when Ind won the T20WC that the floodgates will open for Ind winning icc events and here we are. The next gen batting talent is poised for more icc wins and good upcoming bowlers as well.
 
India are a highly overrated team. Lets not forget they lost the BGT and a recent home test series. As a fake Aussie supporter of BDesi origin, I am always heart broken to see Ind winning an ICC title. Can't digest Ind winning 2 ICC titles in a space of 9 month
Nevermind, I am a permanent 🤡
 
Man of the Match in ICC Knockouts for India 🇮🇳 : 1) 1983 Semi Final vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Mohinder Amarnath, 2) 1983 Final vs WI - Mohinder Amarnath 3) 1996 Quarter Final vs 🇵🇰 - Navjot Sidhu 4) 1998 Champions Trophy Quarter Final vs 🇦🇺 - Sachin Tendulkar 5) 2000 Champions Trophy Quarter Final vs 🇦🇺 - Yuvraj Singh 6) 2000 Champions Trophy Semi Final vs 🇿🇦 - Saurav Ganguly 7) 2002 Champions Trophy Semi Final vs 🇿🇦 - Virender Sehwag 8) 2003 World Cup Semi Final vs 🇰🇪 - Sourav Ganguly 9) 2007 T20 Semi Final vs 🇦🇺 - Yuvraj Singh 10) 2007 T20 Final vs 🇵🇰 - Irfan Pathan 11) 2011 World Cup Quarter Final vs 🇦🇺 - Yuvraj Singh 12) 2011 World Cup Semi Final vs 🇵🇰 - Sachin Tendulkar 13) 2011 World Cup Final vs 🇱🇰 - MS Dhoni 14) 2013 Champions Trophy Semi Final vs 🇱🇰 - Ishant Sharma 15) 2013 Champions Trophy Final vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Ravindra Jadeja 16) 2014 T20 Semi Final vs 🇿🇦 - Virat Kohli 17) 2015 World Cup Quarter Final vs 🇧🇩 - Rohit Sharma 18) 2023 World Cup Semi Final vs 🇳🇿 - Mohammad Shami 19) 2024 T20 Semi Final vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Axar Patel 20) 2024 T20 Final vs 🇿🇦 - Virat Kohli 21) 2025 Champions Trophy Semi Final vs 🇦🇺 - Virat Kohli 22) 2025 Champions Trophy Final vs 🇳🇿 - Rohit Sharma.
 
The best team won the Champions Trophy. Congratulations to India. The difference was India’s solid batting and their 4 spinners. Every team struggled against them. 2 (Jadeja, Axar) of their 4 spinners are genuine allrounders which gives their team batting depth.

Rohit Sharma (2024 T20 WC and 2025 CT) will leave behind a legacy.

He will be remembered as one of India’s 3 most successful captains including.Kapil Dev (1983 WC) and Dhoni(2007 T20 WC and 2011 WC)

NZ started well esp Rachin but then lost three wickets in a heap which set them back. 251 seemed below-par. 275 might have tested India. Still credit to NZ for fighting till the last ball.
 
Its a dream...India winning 2 big ICC events so close...just the kind of domination we wanted all these years after 2011 and 2013...but was denied in 2017 and 2019 and agonisingly close in 23 ...apart from two wtc finals

now time to concentrate on next wtc cycle and odi wc
 
India has dismantled many bogies in the last year-

Won an ICC world cup
Knocked out Australia in a knock out (also took down Travis Headache😂)
Defeated NZ in a final.

Truly, I don’t think anybody can stop the Indian juggernaut now. Let it roll, men in blue.
 
Mockingbird said:
India has dismantled many bogies in the last year-

Won an ICC world cup
Knocked out Australia in a knock out (also took down Travis Headache😂)
Defeated NZ in a final.

Truly, I don’t think anybody can stop the Indian juggernaut now. Let it roll, men in blue.
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Combined Yunus and Zardari mens can...
 
Mockingbird said:
India has dismantled many bogies in the last year-

Won an ICC world cup
Knocked out Australia in a knock out (also took down Travis Headache😂)
Defeated NZ in a final.

Truly, I don’t think anybody can stop the Indian juggernaut now. Let it roll, men in blue.
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True that

I was thinking the same

What a way to win a tournament.

Slaying Pakistan, Australia, NZ (twice) to lift the cup is a great feeling
 
Ahmed216 said:
Also playing at just one venue makes the squad selection much easier
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How? India has 2 seamers available at their disposal. THey did play 3 seamers in the first two matches. They experimented Varun in the third match as it was a dead rubber. It clicked. Varun C was never slated to play.
 
One word about Rohit's smart captaincy. He used his spinners intelligently. Bowling them in short 2-3 over spells and not letting any batsmen settle down. He gave Kuldeep the 11th over (would normally bring him after the 20th over) to get rid of dangerman Rachin. That was the turning point in the match.
 
Virat Kohli is no stranger to winning major ICC tournaments and has put India’s latest success in the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy down to crucial contributions throughout the team during the tournament.

In a repeat of the 2000 final, India chased down their target of 252 with one over to spare after New Zealand posted 251 for seven from their 50 overs.

Captain Rohit Sharma made 76 at the top of the order to set up the win after India’s spinners did a brilliant job of restricting their opponents with the bat.

For Kohli, an ICC Men’s Champion Trophy winner in 2013, people performing in high-pressure situations is the main reason India won.

“These are the things, after playing for so long, you look forward to,” he said. “Being in situations where you are put under pressure, and you walk in, and you put your hand up.

“I think to win titles, which has been missing in the past, the whole team must step up in different games. And if you look at this tournament, over the course of five matches, everyone has put their hand up somewhere or another.”

Notable Indian performances during the tournament include Kohli’s very own unbeaten hundred against Pakistan and his 84 in the semi-final against Australia.

Other valuable contributions include Varun Chakravarthy’s five for 42 against New Zealand in the group stage, Shubman Gill’s unbeaten 101 against Bangladesh and Mohammed Shami’s bowling efforts throughout the entire tournament to finish as the joint-second highest wicket taker with nine scalps.

With 48 on the day to boost the Indian chase, Shreyas Iyer was another to underline his value with consistent impact.

Those efforts from his teammates are what pleased Kohli the most. He added: “That is why we ended up winning this tournament. People have made such impactful knocks and produced such impactful spells, and it is only a collective effort that can win you a title.

“I am just so happy we were able to play as a unit and really enjoy ourselves. We have had such an amazing time as a team. It has been an amazing tournament for us.”

New Zealand’s captain Mitchell Santner praised the way India’s spinners bowled and pinpointed their bowling in the middle overs as a reason his side fell short of the score they wanted to post.

The quartet of Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja combined to bowl 38 overs, taking five wickets at an economy rate of less than four between them.

“It was good bowling,” Santner said when asked about why runs were hard to come by in parts of the game.

“We lost a couple of wickets after the powerplay and then they really got the squeeze on.

“It looked challenging to start with but credit to the way their spinners bowled, all four of them. They are world class bowlers, and they showed that again today.

“In the end, we were probably 20 under, maybe 25 under from what we wanted to get but we knew we had a total and we were going to fight and that is what we did.”
 
Van_Sri said:
India has now 2 World Cups, 3 Champion Trophies 🏆 (1 Shared) and 2 T20 World Cups.
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And one World Championship of Cricket, 1985 where all test playing nations paricipated to celebrate 150 years of the foundation of Victoria state, all except Zimbabwe who were yet to play a test in 1985 but had already played their first ODI in 1983 WC.
 
CrIc_Mystique said:
And one World Championship of Cricket, 1985 where all test playing nations paricipated to celebrate 150 years of the foundation of Victoria state, all except Zimbabwe who were yet to play a test in 1985 but had already played their first ODI in 1983 WC.
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India defeated Pakistan and Gavaskar lifts the trophy
 
Golu-momin said:
@sweep_shot @mominsaigol @Kriketer @Bhaag Viru Bhaag @jamie smith @Major 🤣it must be hard for you guys pls bring now your conspiracy theories and coping mechanisms
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Why would I form excuses? India was the best team of the tournament and hence deserved to win?

You guys let @cricketjoshila @saimayubera and a few others make too many false narratives about me rather then just talking to me directly.

At this point I feel as if I'm a myth, a legend that lives on in the hearts and souls of all Indian posters who fear me in the night.
 
I would still want home test series win over the ICC CT, this our third ICC CT, doesn’t matter zilch except for shutting up some posters here.

Guess I’m just old now lol
 
JaDed said:
I would still want home test series win over the ICC CT, this our third ICC CT, doesn’t matter zilch except for shutting up some posters here.

Guess I’m just old now lol
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yeah no one gave a crap about ct till 2017.

pak posters overhyped that to beat india with lol. also "icc trophies", not "world cups" cause they themselves haven't won one since 92.

india's 15-21 test team is a better achievment than any ct.

traditionally quality of the test cricket team was seen as the ultimate marker of quality of a cricket team.

newer age kids like "icc trophies" i guess.

anyways we'll have them all. test team is now under rebuilding like in the 2012-13 era. will be a very strong team in 2-3 years.

white ball teams, especially t20 look insane. i can see someone defeating us in an odi thing but t20 looks super tough.
 
JaDed said:
I would still want home test series win over the ICC CT, this our third ICC CT, doesn’t matter zilch except for shutting up some posters here.

Guess I’m just old now lol
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100 %

I want world number 1 in tests anyday

That’s the ultimate
World cups are equal to that but still world number 1 in tests comes first for me
Then either odi or t20 world cups

Then champions trophy

That series loss in tests at home to a very beatable nz team still hurts

We don’t make wtc final due to injuries either.

Don’t care for wtc final but world number 1 in tests matters
 
Van_Sri said:
India defeated Pakistan and Gavaskar lifts the trophy
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Indian TV audience of a certain 'vintage' had only seen telecast from two cameras, one behind the bowler and one behind the keeper till then. If the batsman hooked/pulled in the air, the camera would pan to people jumping in the stands only to realize the ball went up in the air and was caught at the 15 yard circle short midwicket :)....

i remember that tournament like yesterday....

cold wintry morning, i was a school boy - the first ever live telecast from Aus - the league match india vs Aus, third match for india after defeating Pak and Eng in the earlier league games....

first time i saw coloured clothes, white ball , black sightscreen...first time indian TV public could hear the keeper -
( Sadanand vishwanath was another rishabh pant - another total sunnki dude..an entertainer) gee up his bowlers along with some other pieces of advise :)....

Kapil Dev and Roger binny hitting the stumps twice in the first 4 overs - stump mike in its full glory for this wide eyed school boy...Rod mcCurdy dropping Srikkant and the bowler swearing away :)

Kapil and Dilip vengy hitting Hadlee for four fours in one over in the semifinals in an exhillarating run chase and some one in the crowd having a banner 'Down under, India is thunder'...

There were other bits of diamond magic as well, Wasim Akram - all of 16 or 17 years old running in covering almost half of MCG to take a brilliant catch, Wasim Akram again taking Fiver against Aus, magic yorker to get Dean jones(i think)
Imran Khan with that platinum crazy run up leap and inswinger from heaven blowing our top order away....the keeper dropping Mo Azhar and Imran swearing away....:), Vishwanath stumping Miandad off Siva and succintly telling him what to do..Kapil's yorker from hell to get Qasim Omar and Qasim Omar in mock humour using his bat like the firing action of machine gun on his way back to the pavilion...

Lastly, India winning and every middle class indian's aspirations got upgraded on that day at that moment.....from the standard Fiat, Ambassador or Maruti 800's to Audi as Ravi Shastri after speaking to the interviewers and becoming Champion of Champions, received the key to the Audi and found out to his surprise/shock/horror that his team mates had already occupied the insides, the roof, bonnet, boot and were spraying the liquid spirits :)

- Ravi starts driving and almosts knocks down half the phalanx of media photographers on the ground...

Ah Epic moments....
 
Rana said:
Bhaijaan aaj tou faisla ho hi jaye ke what is a tulla and what is a proper batsman.

Too much b.s information being spread here on what is white ball batting.
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World class team has won the champion trophy . Where are tullebaaz now ?
Ho gya faisla?

:kp
 
hdev2509 said:
Someone should tell this fake a$$ piece of P@ki $hit that he should dance to the tune of Main Chu*iya Hoon 😂
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Look at how easily you got triggered. I barely had to do anything. The language and vocabulary you are using here reflect your background. This isn't YouTube, where you can throw around slang. You wanted to increase your post count. Posting like this won't help your post count. Be careful when using that P word on a Pakistani forum. :inti
 
""Although in this Champions Trophy, India have played all of their five matches in Dubai, their schedules in the 2023 World Cup (albeit at home), and in the T20 World Cup they won last year, were more challenging. In 2023, they played in nine different venues, losing only the final to Australia. In last year's T20 event, they played three matches in New York state to start, but then played their last six matches (one of which was abandoned) across five different venues.""

Andrew Fidel Fernando on a famous cricketing website......

Thanks Andrew FF....Cheers M8! :ds
 
BDfanforever said:
They were 19 runs short plus Matt Henry like I've mentioned in the match. They also should've gone with the team I mentioned with Mark Chapman and gone with more spin attack.
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Yes. I was surprised they selected Nathan Smith. He only bowled 2 overs and didn't get to bat much.

Chapman could've been better.

I think they should've selected Ajaz Patel. He could've been handy in Dubai.
 
saimayubera said:
yeah no one gave a crap about ct till 2017.

pak posters overhyped that to beat india with lol. also "icc trophies", not "world cups" cause they themselves haven't won one since 92.

india's 15-21 test team is a better achievment than any ct.

traditionally quality of the test cricket team was seen as the ultimate marker of quality of a cricket team.

newer age kids like "icc trophies" i guess.

anyways we'll have them all. test team is now under rebuilding like in the 2012-13 era. will be a very strong team in 2-3 years.

white ball teams, especially t20 look insane. i can see someone defeating us in an odi thing but t20 looks super tough.
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Your test team got destroyed by NZ and Australia and missed 3 opportunities for wtc in a row.

Atm it's not a great test side and bumrah masks how weak it truly is.

Just a home bully and now it's not even that
 
BDfanforever said:
They were 19 runs short plus Matt Henry like I've mentioned in the match. They also should've gone with the team I mentioned with Mark Chapman and gone with more spin attack.
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Lol. Mark Chapman averages 246 with the ball in FC cricket . Averages 46 with an economy of 6.38 in List A cricket .

What a difference he would've made.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Lol. Mark Chapman averages 246 with the ball in FC cricket . Averages 46 with an economy of 6.38 in List A cricket .

What a difference he would've made.
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Do you realize Chapman plays in NZ where spinners don't normally have a good time? :inti

In Dubai, even part-timers can thrive.

Anyway, I think NZ should've selected Ajaz.
 
sweep_shot said:
Do you realize Chapman plays in NZ where spinners don't normally have a good time? :inti

In Dubai, even part-timers can thrive.

Anyway, I think NZ should've selected Ajaz.
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You are clearly uninformed. Chapman has only bowled 4 overs for NZ in international cricket across formats.

A lot of his List A and T20 matches were for Hong Kong.

It was not in New Zealand.

Only FC cricket was in NZ and he averages 246 there.


He's a much worse bowler than Glenn Phillips who himself got hammered in the match.
 
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