India won the Champions Trophy 2025 by beating New Zealand by four wickets in the final in Dubai yesterday. Here we present you the highlights of the contest:

India became the first team to win the tournament three times (Joint-champions in 2002 with hosts Sri Lanka, in 2013, and 2025).

After losing the toss in the final, India captain Rohit Sharma’s unlucky streak in the coin toss in ODIs tallied to 12 on the trot -- the joint-most by a captain along with West Indies’ Brian Lara.

India’s spinners accounted for 26 out of the 47 wickets they took in the tournament – a percentage of 55.32.

Rohit’s 83-ball 76 was the second 50-plus score in a Champions Trophy final by an Indian captain, after Sourav Ganguly’s 117 against New Zealand in 2000. It is also the second-highest score by a captain in the final of a Champions Trophy.

76 is Rohit’s highest in any ODI final, bettering his 66 against Australia in the 2008 CB series final at the SCG.

The 105-run stand between Rohit and Shubman Gill is only the third instance of an opening duo putting together a century-run stand in a Champions Trophy final, after Ganguly and Tendulkar’s 141-run stand against New Zealand in 2000 and a 128-run partnership between Azhar Ali and Fakhar Zaman in 2017.

India’s spin quartet bowled 38 overs in the final – the third most bowled by India spinners in an ODI. The most bowled by India spinners was when they bowled 41.2 overs against the West Indies in Indore in 2011.

India’s spinners bowled 37.3 percent of their balls projected to hit the stumps - the highest by them in the five innings this tournament - and picked 5/50 off those deliveries.

India dropped nine chances in this campaign - the most by any team. Only Bangladesh (66.6) and Pakistan (60) have a worse catching efficiency than India (70%) in this tournament.

ROHIT SHARMA

It [uber-aggressive approach in batting] is not natural to me, but something I really wanted to do. I have played all these years in a different style, and now we are getting the results with this. We have to understand the nature of the surfaces and I was very clear about how I wanted to execute in the first five-six overs. I have gotten out as well earlier, but the execution matters. The depth [in our batting lineup] gives me the freedom and it helps.

MITCHELL SANTNER

We lost to a better side today. We lost a couple of wickets after the Powerplay and they really got the squeeze on. Credit to how their spinners bowled. They are world-class bowlers. We were 20 or 25 runs under to what we were looking for.