Champions Trophy 2025: India vs New Zealand, Final, Stats Review: Most titles in Champions Trophy and other stats

India beat New Zealand in a tense final to take home the Champions Trophy 2025 title home. The win established India as the most successful side in the history of the Champions Trophy. 

India lost the toss for the 15th consecutive time in this format as New Zealand put themselves in. Rachin Ravindra rode on his luck and struck some boundaries in the powerplay. India thouggh, saw his back before he could too much despite the fact that he was dropped twice. The wicket opened the door for India's spinners to see their way in and they made full use of it. Daryl Mitchell (63 off 101) looked mostly laborious at the crease, and so did most of the other New Zealand players. Kuldeep Yadav (2 for 40) got the big breakthroughs of Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson allowing Varun Chakravarthy (2 for 45), Axar Patel (0 for 29) and Ravindra Jadeja (1 for 30) to put in a stranglehold that effectively killed the game in the middle over. Michael Bracewell (53* off 40) gave the Kiwis the right push in the death overs to go past 250. 

After struggling all tournament, Rohit Sharma (76 off 83) finally found his mojo hitting boundary after boundary in the powerplay while Shubman Gill was happy playing second fiddle. New Zealand's spinners came into the game in the midddle overs and made life difficult for the Indian batters. Mitchell Santner (2 for 46) provided the opening breakthrough courtsey another superhuman catch from Glenn Phillips to get rid of Shubman Gill and Michael Bracewell (2 for 28) accounted for Virat Kohli. Rachin Ravindra (1 for 47) got the better of Rohit Sharma, but Shreyas Iyer (48 off 62) and Axar Patel kept the ship running. Even though the asking rate was increasing, India made sure that there wasn't any loss of wickets that could derail the chase. KL Rahul then calmly led India to the chase in the penultimate over just like he had done in the semifinal. 

Here are the most important stats from the match: 

15 - India have now lost the toss in 15 consecutive ODIs. The probabiltiy of losing 15 consecutive coin tosses in 1 in 32,768. 

1 - Rohit Sharma's 12 consecutive toss losses as captain are now the joint most with Brian Lara who endured the streak between 1998 and 1999. 

1 - Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli appeared in their 9th ICC final - more than any other player. Ravindra Jadeja is second with 8 appearances. 

2 - Daryl Mitchell's 344 runs against India in ICC ODI events are the second most by any player against India behind Ricky Ponting's 513. Mitchell's batting average of 86 is also the second best by a player with a minimum of 200 runs against India in ICC ODI events, the first being Andy Flower's 102.

1 - Mohammed Shami is now the highest wicket-taker in ICC finals with 10 wickets, leaving behind Mitchell Starc with 9.

2 - Varun Chakravarthy has the second most wickets by any Indian player after their first four ODIs with 10 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah took 11 wickets in his first four ODIs.

1 - Rohit Sharma registered his first fifty-plus score in ICC event finals in his 11th innings. 

1 - Among top 7 batters, Shubman Gill now holds the record of having played the most innings in ICC tournament finals without a single fifty-plus score at 6. 

1,2 - Virat Kohli (411) and Rohit Sharma (322) are now the highest and second highest run getters in ICC finals history. Kumar Sangakkara is third with 320. 

3 - India became the most decorated team in Champions Trophy history by winning their third title. India had shared the title with Sri Lanka in 2002 and beaten England in the final in 2013. Australia are the only other team to have won the Champions Trophy twice. 

7 - India won their seventh senior men's ICC title - the second most behind Australia's 10. 

1 - Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have now won 4 ICC titles each, the most by any Indian player. Ravindra Jadeja and MS Dhoni share the second spot with 3 titles. 

1 - India now have the joint most number of wins in ICC knockouts with Australia. Both teams have won 23 matches each in the knockouts, Australia have registered their wins from 36 matches while India have needed 39 matches for it. 

1 - This match marked the first time that India did not lose the final of an ICC event to New Zealand. The Kiwis had gotten the better of the Men in Blue in the final of the Champions Trophy in 2000 and in the World Test Championship in 2021. 

6 - Rohit Sharma has become the sixth captain to win multiple ICC tournaments. He joins an elite list whose previous members included Ricky Ponting, MS Dhoni, Clive LLoyd, Daren Sammy and Pat Cummins. 

3 - Rohit Sharma has the third most wins by any captain in ICC limited-over (ODI World Cups, T20 World Cups and Champions Trophies) events. Rohit has won 27 matches as skipper only behind Ricky Ponting's 40 and MS Dhoni's 41 wins as skipper. 

1 - Of all captains to have led in minimum 20 matches in ICC limited-over events, Rohit Sharma has the best win percentage. Rohit has won 27 matches out of 30 in charge leading him to a win percentage of 90, well clear of Ricky Ponting with 78.43% (40 wins in 51 matches) in second place. 

1 - This tournament was the first time that India won an ICC tournament while having Mohammed Shami be part of the squad since 2013. Shami was not a part of India's triumphant squads in the 2013 Champions Trophy and 2024 T20 World Cup, but was there for the numerous other heartbreaks that India and its fans went through in betweeen. 

4 - Rohit Sharma is now the fourth captain to win a Player of the Match Award in an ICC final and the first to do so in the Champions Trophy. The other three all came in ODI World Cup Finals - Clive LLoyd in 1975, Ricky Ponting in 2003 and MS Dhoni in 2011. 

2 - Since the Champions Trophy moved to a two-groups-of-four-teams-each format in 2006, there have been only two instances of a team winning all its matches within a single edition. Both are by India - in 2013 and 2025. Australia were also unbeaten when they won the tournament in 2009, but one of their matches was a no result. 

West Indies had enjoyed an unbeaten run to the title in 2004. In 1998 and 2000, the Champions Trophy was played purely in a knockout format, so it obvious that the respective winners of those years - South Africa and New Zealand - also got an unbeaten run to the title. India and Sri Lanka had also enjoyed unbeaten runs to the final in 2002, but both the final and the reserve final were washed out so the teams shared honours.