India will bid for a third title when it begins its ICC Champions Trophy 2025 campaign against Bangladesh in Dubai on Thursday.
India won the tournament in 2002 (joint-winner with Sri Lanka) and 2013, before losing to archrival Pakistan in the final in 2017. Only two-time champion Australia has won the ICC Champions Trophy as many times as the Men in Blue.
INDIA’S OVERALL RECORD IN ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY (1998-2017)
Matched played: 29
Matches won: 18
Matches lost: 8
No result: 3
Last result: Lost to Pakistan by 180 runs (The Oval; 2017)
Last five results: Won – 3; Lost – 2
INDIA AT EVERY ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY EDITION
| Year | Result | Most Runs | Most Wickets |
| 1998 | Semifinals | Sachin Tendulkar (149) | Sachin Tendulkar (6) |
| 2000 | Runner-up | Sourav Ganguly (348) | Venkatesh Prasad (8) |
| 2002 | Winner | Virender Sehwag (271) | Zaheer Khan (8) |
| 2004 | Group Stage | Rahul Dravid (97) | Irfan Pathan (5) |
| 2006 | Group Stage | Rahul Dravid (105) | Munaf Patel (4) |
| 2009 | Group Stage | Virat Kohli (95) | Ashish Nehra (8) |
| 2013 | Winner | Shikhar Dhawan (363) | Ravindra Jadeja (12) |
| 2017 | Runner-up | Shikhar Dhawan (338) | Bhuvneshwar Kumar (7) |
India’s left-handed opening batter Shikhar Dhawan was prolific in the 2013 and 2017 editions of the ICC Champions Trophy.
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India’s left-handed opening batter Shikhar Dhawan was prolific in the 2013 and 2017 editions of the ICC Champions Trophy.
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MOST RUNS FOR INDIA IN ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY
| Batter | Mat. | Runs | Avg. | S/R | Highest | 100s/50s |
| Shikhar Dhawan | 10 | 701 | 77.88 | 101.59 | 125 | 3/3 |
| Sourav Ganguly | 13 | 665 | 73.88 | 83.12 | 141* | 3/3 |
| Rahul Dravid | 19 | 627 | 48.23 | 73.33 | 76 | 0/6 |
| Virat Kohli | 13 | 529 | 88.16 | 92.32 | 96* | 0/5 |
| Rohit Sharma | 10 | 481 | 53.44 | 82.50 | 123* | 1/4 |
MOST WICKETS FOR INDIA IN ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY
| Bowler | Mat. | Wickets | Econ. | Avg. | S/R | BBI |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 10 | 16 | 4.85 | 25.18 | 31.1 | 5/36 |
| Zaheer Khan | 9 | 15 | 4.60 | 24.53 | 32.0 | 4/45 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 13 | 14 | 3.96 | 35.42 | 53.5 | 3/27 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 16 | 14 | 4.73 | 25.07 | 31.7 | 4/38 |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 10 | 13 | 4.30 | 25.69 | 35.7 | 2/19 |
Bhuvneshwar Kumar was India’s top wicket-taker in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar was India’s top wicket-taker in the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.
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INDIA SQUAD FOR ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2025
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill (vc), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.
INDIA SCHEDULE FOR ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY 2025
- India vs Bangladesh – February 20 – Dubai (2:30 PM IST)
- India vs Pakistan – February 23 – Dubai (2:30 PM IST)
- India vs New Zealand – March 2 – Dubai (2:30 PM IST)