India won match: India has won the Champions Trophy 2025 title by defeating New Zealand by 4 wickets. Team India has won the Champions Trophy title again after 12 years. India has hoisted the tricolor in Dubai by capturing an ICC trophy for the second consecutive year.
India became world champion for the third time
India has won the Champions Trophy title for the third time. Now India has also become the country that has won the Champions Trophy the most number of times. India shared the Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka in 2002, then in 2013, Team India won the trophy under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. Now in 2025, India has become the champion of champions for the third time by defeating New Zealand by 5 wickets.
Rohit, Shreyas and…, the entire Indian team did wonders
In the final match of Champions Trophy 2025, New Zealand batted first and scored 251 runs on the scoreboard. Daryl Mitchell scored the most runs for the Kiwis, who played an innings of 63 runs. But Team India definitely felt hurt in the 10 overs of New Zealand’s innings because the Kiwis scored 79 runs in the last 10 overs. Michael Bracewell played an innings of 53 runs in 40 balls and took New Zealand to 251 runs.
Shubman Gill gave a great start
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave a great start to Team India chasing the target of 252 runs. There was a brilliant partnership of 105 runs between Rohit and Gill. Gill scored 31 runs and Rohit Sharma scored 76 runs. Team India came under pressure after the wickets of Gill and Virat fell, in such a situation Shreyas Iyer reduced the pressure on the Indian team by playing an innings of 48 runs. In the last overs, Hardik Pandya played a short but very important innings of 18 runs.
India completes 25 years old revenge
With this victory, India has also completed 25 years old revenge from New Zealand because New Zealand won the title by defeating India in the final of 2000 Champions Trophy. In the year 2000, when the final match between the two teams took place, Sourav Ganguly scored a century of 117 runs for India. But Chris Cairns’ unbeaten innings of 102 runs proved to be too much for the Indian team. This time no century was scored in Dubai, but Ravindra Jadeja ensured India’s victory by hitting the winning shot in the form of a four.
