In the final of the Champions Trophy 2025, India defeated New Zealand by four wickets at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium to win the title. After becoming the T20 World Cup champion last year, every fan was expecting another title from the Indian team, which has been fulfilled. After the defeat in the 2023 ODI World Cup final, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli had tears in their eyes, but they learned from it and made India champions in two consecutive ICC tournaments.
While Virat Kohli played an important innings in the T20 World Cup in 2024, Rohit Sharma made Team India champion by playing a captaincy innings in the 2025 Champions Trophy. Rohit Sharma (Hitman) and Virat Kohli (King Kohli) have played seven limited overs ICC tournament finals each. Rohit’s performance has been decent, while Virat has scored three half-centuries. Let’s take a look at the performance of both in the finals of the ICC tournament.
Rohit’s performance in every ICC finals
Before this final, Rohit has played the 2007 T20 World Cup final, 2013 Champions Trophy final, 2014 T20 World Cup final, 2017 Champions Trophy final, 2023 ODI World Cup final and 2024 T20 World Cup final. In the 2007 T20 World Cup final, Rohit played an unbeaten match-winning innings of 30 runs against Pakistan. Team India won this match. In the 2013 Champions Trophy, Rohit scored nine runs against England. In the 2014 T20 World Cup final, Rohit scored 29 runs against Sri Lanka. Rohit could not open his account against Pakistan in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy.
Team India lost this match as well. At the same time, in the 2023 ODI World Cup, Rohit was dismissed after scoring 47 runs against Australia. Team India lost this match as well. In the T20 World Cup 2024 too, Hitman could not do anything special and was out after scoring just nine runs. However, Team India managed to win. Rohit wanted to win the match for India on his own in the last phase of his career and that is what happened. He created problems for the opposition team. Rohit played an innings of 76 runs in 83 balls with the help of seven fours and three sixes.
Virat’s performance in every ICC finals
On the other hand, Virat has played the 2011 ODI World Cup final, 2013 Champions Trophy final, 2014 T20 World Cup final, 2017 Champions Trophy final, 2023 ODI World Cup final and 2024 T20 World Cup final. Virat played an important innings of 35 runs against Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 ODI World Cup. India won the World Cup title by defeating Sri Lanka. In the 2013 Champions Trophy, Virat scored important 43 runs against England. Thanks to this innings, Team India managed to win. In the final of the 2014 T20 World Cup, Virat scored 77 runs against Sri Lanka.
In the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, Virat could score only five runs against Pakistan. At the same time, in the 2023 ODI World Cup, Virat was dismissed after scoring 54 runs against Australia. As long as Virat was on the field, it seemed that Team India would reach a good score, but there was silence as soon as he was out. India missed out on winning the ODI World Cup. In the T20 World Cup last year, Virat’s bat remained silent till the final. However, a player of his stature knows how to perform in a big match and that is what happened.
In the final against South Africa, India lost three wickets for 34 runs. After this, Virat Kohli along with Axar Patel and then Shivam Dubey took over the innings. Virat scored 76 runs in 59 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes. Due to his innings, India was able to score 176 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 20 overs. In reply, South Africa could only score 169 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs and Team India became the champion by winning the match by seven runs. In this final too, fans were expecting a similar miracle from Virat, but he was out after scoring one run.