Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan
ICC Champions Trophy 2025: If we talk about the two most successful teams of Champions Trophy, they are India and Australia. Both the teams have won the Champions Trophy title 2 times each. The Indian team last won the Champions Trophy in 2013. After this, Team India had a chance to win this title for the second consecutive time in 2017 but Pakistan shattered the dreams of Indian fans by winning in the final. This time Team India will enter the tournament with the intention of winning the third title. However, this time Team India will not be able to get the support of that strong player who had the biggest contribution in reaching the finals of the last two tournaments.
Team eyes third title
Actually, the Champions Trophy is going to be organized after 8 years. It was last played in 2017 and before that the Champions Trophy was held in England in 2013. Team India was successful in reaching the finals of both these tournaments. In 2013, Team India won the title for the second time by defeating England in the final, whereas in the 2017 final the team missed out on winning the title. In both these tournaments, India’s star batsman had a strong bat and became the highest run scorer. However, in 2025, Team India will definitely feel the absence of this strong player. The player being mentioned is none other than Shikhar Dhawan.
The team will miss Gabbar
Shikhar Dhawan was the top run scorer of the 2013 and 2017 Champions Trophy. It was on the strength of Dhawan that Team India had reached the finals both the times. During this period, the team had also become champion once but this time he will not be a part of the team because he had already said goodbye to international cricket and IPL last year. In the 2013 Champions Trophy, Dhawan scored 363 runs in 5 innings at an average of more than 90, while in 2017, 338 runs came from his bat. From these figures it can be estimated how big a batsman he has been for India in the ICC Champions Trophy.
India’s Champions Trophy team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh. , Yashasvi Jaiswal.
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