Virender Sehwag
ICC champions trophy 2025: The Champions Trophy has been named in the cricket world at this time on everyone’s tongue. The bugle of the Champions Trophy in Karachi is going to ring in Karachi from 19 February. A day later, Team India will be in action in Dubai. The Indian team will play their first match against Bangladesh in the tournament on 20 February. After this, the Indian team will take on the Champions Trophy 2025 hosts Pakistan team. This match will also be played in Dubai. The Indian team will try to win the title this time because when the Champions Trophy was last played 8 years ago, Pakistan had shattered the dream of winning India’s title in the final. This time Team India would like to take revenge on the previous defeat from Pakistan as well as capture the title.
The Indian team has won the Champions Trophy title 2 times so far. For the first time, India became a joint winner in 2002 with India’s neighboring country Sri Lanka. After this, the ICC Champions Trophy was successful in winning the title of ICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Team India Dhoni. This time India will be eyeing winning the third title. 8 editions of the Champions Trophy have been played so far but there is a record of Virender Sehwag which has been unbreakable for 23 years. Former India opener Sehwag had done an act in the 2002 Champions Trophy that no one has broken till date.
Record has not been broken for 23 years
In fact, Virender Sehwag scored 126 off 104 balls in Colombo against England in the ICC Champions Trophy 2002. In this 126 run innings, he got 90 runs from the boundary. He hit 21 fours and 1 six. In this way, he had set the world record of scoring the most runs with the help of a boundary in a match in the history of Champions Trophy, which remains even today after so many years. Now it will be interesting to see whether this Maharikord of Sehwag can break this time or not.
India team for ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-Qetan), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Hardik Pandya, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakraborty.
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