India at the 2013 Champions Trophy: Results, Squad & Stats

England needed 20 from 16 balls at Edgbaston on 23 June 2013 with six wickets down, chasing 130 in a final that had been cut to twenty overs a side after six hours of rain. Ishant Sharma bowled the eighteenth over, had Eoin Morgan caught by Ravichandran Ashwin at midwicket and removed Ravi Bopara next ball. Ravindra Jadeja took Tim Bresnan and Jos Buttler in the nineteenth. Ashwin conceded nine in the twentieth and England finished on 124 for 8, five short.

India won all five matches they played in that tournament. It was the last global trophy MS Dhoni won as captain, and it made him the first man to have won a World T20, a fifty-over World Cup and a Champions Trophy — three different competitions, in three different countries, inside six years. The two players who topped the tournament's batting and bowling lists were both Indian: Shikhar Dhawan with 363 runs at 90.75, Jadeja with 12 wickets at 12.83.

The 2013 side was also the first India squad of the modern white-ball era in the sense that most of it was still playing five years later. Dhawan and Rohit Sharma opened together for the first time in a major tournament here, Virat Kohli batted at four, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled the new ball in English conditions with the seam presentation that became his trademark. What follows is what happened, in order.

Five matches, five wins

Date	Stage	Venue	Opponent	Scores	Result
6 Jun	Group B	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	South Africa	India 331/7; South Africa 305	India won by 26 runs
11 Jun	Group B	The Oval, London	West Indies	West Indies 233/9; India 236/2 (39.1 ov)	India won by 8 wickets
15 Jun	Group B	Edgbaston, Birmingham	Pakistan	Pakistan 165; India 102/2 (19.1 ov)	India won by 8 wickets (D/L)
20 Jun	Semi-final	Sophia Gardens, Cardiff	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka 181/8; India 182/2 (35 ov)	India won by 8 wickets
23 Jun	Final	Edgbaston, Birmingham	England	India 129/7 (20 ov); England 124/8 (20 ov)	India won by 5 runs

The tournament ran from 6 to 23 June across England and Wales with eight teams in two groups of four. India were in Group B with South Africa, West Indies and Pakistan — the harder of the two groups on paper — and won it without dropping a point. Three of the five matches were affected by rain, and India's habit of finishing chases with overs to spare kept them out of most of the trouble that caused elsewhere in the draw.

The fifteen, and the opening pair that stuck

Player	Role in the tournament
MS Dhoni (capt)	Wicketkeeper, batted six or seven
Shikhar Dhawan	Opener — 363 runs, player of the series
Rohit Sharma	Opener — 65 v South Africa, 52 v West Indies
Virat Kohli	Number four — 43 in the final
Dinesh Karthik	Middle order — 51 not out v West Indies
Suresh Raina	Middle order, left-arm spin option
Murali Vijay	Reserve opener
Ravindra Jadeja	Left-arm spin and lower-order batting — 12 wickets
Ravichandran Ashwin	Off spin — bowled the final over of the final
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	New-ball swing — 2/19 v Pakistan
Umesh Yadav	Right-arm fast
Ishant Sharma	Right-arm fast — 3/33 in the semi-final
Irfan Pathan	Left-arm swing, allrounder
Vinay Kumar	Right-arm medium fast
Amit Mishra	Leg spin

Rohit Sharma had spent five years being tried in the middle order without settling. Moving him up to open, alongside a recalled Dhawan, was a Dhoni-era decision that outlasted Dhoni's captaincy by a decade, and the record Rohit built as an ODI opener starts here. Dhawan himself had played one Test and returned to the one-day side after a two-year absence.

Cardiff, 6 June: 331, and a target that nearly stood up

Dhawan made 114 on his return, Rohit 65, and the two put on 127 for the first wicket. Jadeja's 47 not out at the end took India to 331 for 7, which in Cardiff in early June was a very large total. South Africa's reply is the reason the margin was 26 rather than 80: AB de Villiers made 70, Robin Peterson 68 from the lower order and Ryan McLaren 71 not out from number eight, and South Africa were bowled out for 305 with the last pair still swinging.

Jadeja took 2 for 31 and Bhuvneshwar 2 for 49. It was the only match of India's tournament in which they conceded more than 250, and the pattern of the remaining four — bowl the opposition out cheaply, chase with time in hand — was established immediately afterwards.

The Oval, 11 June: Jadeja's five

West Indies were 233 for 9 despite Johnson Charles's 60 and Darren Sammy's 56 not out, because Jadeja took 5 for 36 from his ten overs on a surface where nobody else got much turn. India then made 236 for 2 in 39.1 overs — Dhawan 102 not out for his second one-day hundred, Rohit 52, Dinesh Karthik 51 not out — and won with 65 balls unused.

Two things stand out on that scorecard. The first is that Jadeja's five-wicket haul came in a tournament where he also finished as the leading wicket-taker overall, which for a bowler generally used as a containment option is unusual. The second is that Dhawan reached a hundred in his second consecutive innings of the competition, from an opening position he had not occupied for two years.

Edgbaston, 15 June: Pakistan in 22 overs

Rain reduced this one twice. Pakistan batted first in a match cut to 40 overs a side and were bowled out for 165 in 39.4; Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2 for 19 and won the match award. More rain then cut India's innings to 22 overs with a revised Duckworth–Lewis target of 102, which India reached in 19.1 for the loss of two wickets.

It was the least satisfying win of the five and, in the context of the group, the most useful: it confirmed India as Group B winners and sent Pakistan out. India's wider one-day record in this fixture is covered in the India–Pakistan rivalry guide, and Bhuvneshwar's new-ball method — which needed exactly these conditions — is set out in the piece on his swing bowling.

Cardiff again, 20 June: 181 was never going to be enough

Sri Lanka batted 50 overs in the semi-final and finished on 181 for 8. Ishant Sharma took 3 for 33 and was named player of the match; no Sri Lankan batter got the innings moving, and India's four-man seam-and-spin rotation simply never allowed a scoring period.

The chase took 35 overs. Dhawan and Kohli each passed fifty, India lost two wickets, and the match finished with 90 balls remaining. Of India's five wins in the tournament, this was the only one in which the result was never genuinely in doubt from the first over onwards.

Twenty overs at Edgbaston, and 129 defended

The final was scheduled as a 50-over match and started at four in the afternoon after roughly six hours lost to rain, reduced to twenty overs a side. England put India in. Bopara took 3 for 20 and India managed only 129 for 7, Kohli's 43 the top score and Jadeja's 33 the innings that turned a poor total into a marginal one.

England were then in control for most of the chase. Morgan's 33 had them needing 20 from 16 with Bopara at the other end and six wickets down; the eighteenth over changed it. Ishant, who had been expensive earlier, took two in two. Jadeja removed Bresnan and Buttler in the nineteenth. Ashwin — a spinner bowling the last over of a global final defending 14 — gave up nine.

Jadeja took the player-of-the-match award for 33 runs and two wickets, and the BCCI's response was a bonus of ₹1 crore per player and ₹30 lakh for each member of the support staff. Dhoni's three-format captaincy record, of which this was the last piece, is examined in his captaincy across the three formats. Kohli's 43 in a total of 129 is one of the innings that established the reputation covered in his record in run chases.

Dhawan 363, Jadeja 12

Player	Tournament figure
Shikhar Dhawan	363 runs at 90.75 — leading run scorer, player of the series
Ravindra Jadeja	12 wickets at 12.83 — leading wicket taker
Rohit Sharma	65 v South Africa, 52 v West Indies
Virat Kohli	43 in the final, a half-century in the semi-final
Dinesh Karthik	51 not out v West Indies
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	2/19 v Pakistan, 2/49 v South Africa
Ishant Sharma	3/33 in the semi-final, two wickets in the eighteenth over of the final

Two Indians topping both lists at the same ICC tournament has happened rarely. Dhawan's 363 came in five innings, which is an average of over ninety in a competition where no other batter passed 230. Jonathan Trott's 229 for England was the next-best aggregate.

Four things the 2013 numbers show

India's bowling, not their batting, won this tournament. The batting produced 331 once and then 236, 102, 182 and 129 — three of those in chases, one in a twenty-over final. The bowling dismissed South Africa, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for 305, 233, 165 and 181, and then defended 129. Jadeja and Ashwin bowled twenty overs of spin in most matches in England in June, which was not the orthodox plan for those conditions.

The margins tell a different story from the win-loss column. Two of the five wins were by eight wickets with more than ten overs to spare; two were by 26 runs and five runs. An unbeaten record does not mean a comfortable one, and the final was decided in the space of eleven deliveries.

Ravindra Jadeja's tournament is the outlier in the whole record. Twelve wickets at 12.83, a five-wicket haul, 47 not out in the opening match and 33 in the final. Very few players have finished as the leading wicket-taker of an ICC event and taken the man-of-the-match award in its final.

Finally, 2013 is where India's Champions Trophy record turns. Eleven years earlier the 2002 title had been shared with Sri Lanka after two washed-out finals; twelve years later India won it again in Dubai in 2025. This was the one they won outright, in the country that invented the conditions they were supposed to struggle in. The full India record across every edition is in the Champions Trophy history for India, the competition itself is indexed on the Champions Trophy hub, and the wider development of India's one-day cricket is traced in ODI cricket in India. The rest of the game in the country sits under cricket in India.

Sources and method

Match scores, dates, venues, margins, Duckworth–Lewis revisions and individual figures are taken from ESPNcricinfo scorecards for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and cross-checked against ICC tournament records and contemporaneous BBC and BCCI match reports. Tournament aggregates — Dhawan's 363 runs at 90.75, Jadeja's 12 wickets at 12.83, Trott's 229 — are the published competition lists.

The sequence of the final's closing overs is reconstructed from ball-by-ball match reporting rather than from a single summary source, and is stated only to the level of detail those reports agree on. Where this page gives a match figure rather than a tournament aggregate for an Indian player, that is because a verified per-player total for the whole competition was not available for every member of the squad.

The claim that Dhoni was the first captain to win all three senior ICC men's limited-overs trophies refers to the World T20, the fifty-over World Cup and the Champions Trophy, and is as recorded by the ICC. Figures were re-checked in August 2026; the tournament is closed and none of them will move.