India at the 2025 Champions Trophy: Results, Squad & Stats
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Ravindra Jadeja hit the winning runs at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 9 March 2025 with a ball to spare in the 49th over. India had chased 252 to beat New Zealand by four wickets and win the Champions Trophy for the third time, after the shared title of 2002 and the outright win at Edgbaston in 2013. Rohit Sharma's 76 from 83 balls took the player-of-the-match award in his last major-tournament final as India's captain.
The campaign was unlike any other ICC tournament India have played. All five matches — three group games, a semi-final and the final — were staged at the same ground, because Pakistan were the official hosts and India did not travel there. Dubai became India's home venue for three weeks by administrative arrangement, and India built a team around what that particular square does to a cricket ball.
That team, in the final, contained four frontline spinners: Jadeja, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel. Only one specialist fast bowler, Mohammed Shami, played in the XI. Jasprit Bumrah had not recovered from a back injury and missed the tournament entirely. India won anyway, and the way they won says more about the venue than about any change of philosophy.
Five matches at one ground
| Date | Stage | Opponent | Opponent score | India | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Feb | Group A | Bangladesh | 228 | 231/4 | India won by 6 wickets |
| 23 Feb | Group A | Pakistan | 241 | 244/4 | India won by 6 wickets |
| 2 Mar | Group A | New Zealand | 205 | 249/9 | India won by 44 runs |
| 4 Mar | Semi-final | Australia | 264 | 267/6 (48.1 ov) | India won by 4 wickets |
| 9 Mar | Final | New Zealand | 251/7 | 254/6 (49 ov) | India won by 4 wickets |
Eight teams played in two groups of four between 19 February and 9 March. India topped Group A with six points ahead of New Zealand, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Every other side in the tournament moved between Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Dubai; India stayed in one hotel and played on one square, which several opposing captains raised publicly as a competitive question and the ICC treated as a scheduling necessity.
Rohit Sharma's fifteen, without Bumrah
| Player | Role |
|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma (capt) | Opening batter — 76 in the final |
| Shubman Gill | Opening batter — 101 not out v Bangladesh |
| Virat Kohli | Number three — 100 not out v Pakistan, 84 in the semi-final |
| Shreyas Iyer | Number four — India's leading run scorer |
| KL Rahul | Wicketkeeper, middle order — 34 not out in the final |
| Rishabh Pant | Wicketkeeper, batter |
| Hardik Pandya | Allrounder |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Left-arm spin, batter |
| Axar Patel | Left-arm spin, batter |
| Washington Sundar | Off spin, batter |
| Kuldeep Yadav | Left-arm wrist spin |
| Varun Chakravarthy | Mystery spin — 5/42 v New Zealand |
| Mohammed Shami | Right-arm fast |
| Arshdeep Singh | Left-arm fast |
| Harshit Rana | Right-arm fast |
The squad was named in January and finalised on 13 February. Six of the fifteen were spinners or bowled spin as a primary skill, which was not how India had set up for one-day tournaments in Australia or England. The country's long relationship with slow bowling is traced in India's spin bowling tradition; what happened in Dubai was that tradition being applied to a surface nobody in the tournament had a home advantage on.
Bangladesh, 20 February: Gill's hundred, Shami's five
Bangladesh were 228 all out. Mohammed Shami took 5 for 53 and in doing so became the fastest India bowler to 200 one-day international wickets by balls delivered, breaking a record that had stood to an Australian fast bowler. He also broke a 154-run stand that had threatened to make the total considerably larger.
Shubman Gill then made 101 not out and India won by six wickets with 231 for 4. It was the least dramatic of India's five wins and the one that established the template: bowl the opposition out somewhere between 200 and 260, then chase without losing more than four wickets. Gill's development as a one-day opener is covered in his ODI record and white-ball hundreds, and Shami's method with the older ball in the piece on his seam position.
Pakistan, 23 February: Kohli's 100 not out
Pakistan made 241 and India chased it with 244 for 4 and six wickets in hand. Virat Kohli finished on 100 not out — his 51st one-day international century, made in a chase, in the highest-profile fixture of the group stage.
The innings was characteristic rather than spectacular: singles turned into twos, no visible acceleration, the hundred arriving as the match ended. India's record against Pakistan across formats and the shape of this particular rivalry are covered in the India–Pakistan rivalry guide, and Kohli's method in chases specifically in his ODI and Test chasing record.
New Zealand, 2 March: Chakravarthy's five on debut in the competition
India batted first for the only time in the group stage and made 249 for 9, which on that surface was a competitive rather than a commanding score. Varun Chakravarthy, playing his first Champions Trophy match, then took 5 for 42 and New Zealand were bowled out for 205. India won by 44 runs and Chakravarthy took the match award.
It was the performance that settled India's selection for the knockouts. A wrist-spinner who bowls at pace and turns the ball both ways is a specific answer to a slow, low pitch, and once Chakravarthy had taken five, the argument for playing four spinners in a final stopped being theoretical.
Australia in the semi-final, 4 March
Australia batted first and made 264, Steve Smith's 73 from 96 balls holding the innings together. Shami took 3 for 48 from his ten overs on a pitch that gave nothing away. It was, as several reports noted, a rematch of the 2023 World Cup final in Ahmedabad, and it went the other way.
Kohli made 84 from 98 balls and won the match award; India reached 267 for 6 in 48.1 overs, with eleven balls to spare. Given how few of India's knockout matches against Australia have gone their way, this one is worth setting beside the rest of the record in the India–Australia rivalry guide.
The final: 251 for 7, then 254 for 6
New Zealand won the toss, batted, and made 251 for 7. Daryl Mitchell's 63 from 101 balls was the anchor, Rachin Ravindra's 37 from 29 the fast start, and Michael Bracewell's 53 not out from 40 balls the late acceleration that turned a modest total into a defensible one. India's spinners took five of the seven wickets — two each to Kuldeep Yadav and Chakravarthy, one to Jadeja — and Shami the other.
India's reply was not comfortable. Rohit made 76 from 83, Kohli was out for 1, Gill took 50 balls over 31 and Shreyas Iyer made 48 from 62. At 183 for 5 the required rate had climbed. KL Rahul's 34 not out from 33 balls and Jadeja's 9 not out from six settled it, India finishing on 254 for 6 in the 49th over. Richard Illingworth and Paul Reiffel stood. Rohit was reported as the first captain to win the player-of-the-match award in a Champions Trophy final, and it was his last global final in charge — the wider account is in his India captaincy record.
India's tournament numbers
| Player | Tournament figure |
|---|---|
| Shreyas Iyer | 243 runs in five innings at 48.60 — India's leading scorer |
| Virat Kohli | 100 not out v Pakistan, 84 in the semi-final |
| Rohit Sharma | 76 in the final |
| Shubman Gill | 101 not out v Bangladesh |
| Varun Chakravarthy | 9 wickets in 30 overs, best 5/42 |
| Mohammed Shami | 9 wickets in 41 overs, best 5/53 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 2 wickets in the final |
Iyer's 243 was reported as the highest aggregate by any batter operating at number four or lower in a single Champions Trophy, narrowly past Damien Martyn's 241 from 2006. Neither of India's two leading wicket-takers finished top of the tournament's bowling list: Matt Henry of New Zealand took ten. The player of the tournament was Rachin Ravindra, with 263 runs in four innings and three wickets, and he collected it having just lost the final.
What the campaign actually shows
The first thing the numbers show is how narrow the winning margins were relative to the reputation of the result. Two six-wicket wins and two four-wicket wins, one of them finished in the 49th over. India were never behind for long and never far ahead either; no opponent was beaten by more than 44 runs.
The second is that the bowling did the work in a way that is unusual for a modern India white-ball side. Opponents made 228, 241, 205, 264 and 251 — five scores in a 60-run band, on the same pitch, against attacks with four or five slow bowlers. Chakravarthy and Shami took nine wickets each with completely different skills, and the spin group conceded very little in the middle overs of every match.
The third is the single-venue question, which will follow this title around. Playing every match at one ground let India settle on personnel and conditions in a way no other side could, and it happened because of a political arrangement rather than sporting merit. It is a genuine asterisk in the sense that it is worth stating, and not one in the sense that India still had to beat Australia and New Zealand in consecutive knockout matches to win the thing.
The fourth is that New Zealand were the only side India met twice, and both meetings were close in different ways. India batted first in the group match, made 249 for 9 and won by 44 runs on the back of Chakravarthy's five. In the final they bowled first, conceded 251 for 7 and needed 49 overs to pass it. The same two sides, on the same pitch, a week apart, produced totals within two runs of each other and margins that had nothing in common — which is a reasonable illustration of how little the toss settled in Dubai that fortnight.
The fifth is generational. Rohit Sharma and Kohli were both past 36, both scored heavily, and neither played another ICC final in this format. Iyer, Gill, Rahul and Chakravarthy carried the tournament's most consequential contributions between them. Set beside the 2013 win in England and the shared 2002 title in Colombo, 2025 is the campaign in which India won a global trophy without a fully fit fast-bowling attack. The full India record in the competition is set out in the Champions Trophy history for India, every edition is indexed on the Champions Trophy hub, and the broader arc of India's fifty-over cricket is in ODI cricket in India. Everything else about the game in the country is under cricket in India.
Sources and method
Scores, dates, venues, margins and individual figures are from ESPNcricinfo scorecards for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy, cross-checked against ICC tournament records and BBC and Sky Sports match reports. Squad composition, the January announcement and the 13 February finalisation are from BCCI and ICC releases.
Tournament aggregates — Iyer's 243 runs at 48.60, Chakravarthy's and Shami's nine wickets each, Matt Henry's ten, Rachin Ravindra's 263 — are the published competition lists. The claims about Shami's 200th one-day wicket and about Iyer's aggregate at number four or lower are reported records rather than figures computed here, and are attributed as such in the text.
Assessment of the single-venue arrangement is descriptive: the arrangement itself is documented, the competitive effect of it is a judgement and is labelled as one. Figures were re-checked in August 2026 and the tournament is closed.