India will contest New Zealand in the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
This is the second time these teams are facing each other in the title clash of this tournament. New Zealand had beat India by four wickets in the 2000 edition when it was called the ICC Knockout.
India is on cusp of securing its second-straight ICC title. It had won the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 in West Indies and USA last year.
The Men in Blue have won two titles each of the ODI World Cup, T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy.
In Tests, India has reached the final of the ICC World Test Championship twice but failed to get its hands on the title.
Here is how India has fared in the finals of ICC events till date:
- ODI World Cup 1983 – beat West Indies by 43 runs (Lord’s)
- ICC Knockout 2000 – lost to New Zealand by 4 wickets (Nairobi)
- ICC Champions Trophy 2002 – No Result (Colombo)
- ODI World Cup 2003 – lost to Australia by 125 runs (Johannesburg)
- T20 World Cup 2007 – beat Pakistan by 5 runs (Johannesburg)
- ODI World Cup 2011 – beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets (Mumbai)
- ICC Champions Trophy 2013 – beat England by 5 runs (Birmingham)
- T20 World Cup 2014 – lost to Sri Lanka by 6 wickets (Mirpur)
- ICC Champions Trophy 2017 – lost to Pakistan by 180 runs (The Oval)
- ICC World Test Championship 2021 – lost to New Zealand by 8 wickets (Southampton)
- ICC World Test Championship 2023 – lost to Australia by 209 runs (The Oval)
- ODI World Cup 2023 – lost to Australia by 6 wickets (Ahmedabad)
- T20 World Cup 2024 – beat South Africa by 7 runs (Barbados)