Former India World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev broke into a joyful dance as the Men in Blue clinched the 2025 Champions Trophy. Rohit Sharma’s team defeated New Zealand in the final, played on Sunday, March 9, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Opting to bowl first, India restricted New Zealand to 251, with Varun Chakaravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav picking up two wickets each. In the chase, skipper Rohit Sharma led from the front with a brilliant 76 off 83 balls.
Middle-order contributions from Shreyas Iyer (48), Axar Patel (29), and KL Rahul (34*) ensured India’s four-wicket victory with six balls to spare. As India secured their third ICC Champions Trophy title and first since 2013, Kapil Dev celebrated with an energetic dance in the India Today studio, while Sunil Gavaskar joined the celebrations from Dubai.
You can watch the video here:
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In total, this marked India’s seventh ICC title, making them the second-most successful team, trailing only Australia, which has secured 10 titles.
“They made us proud” – Kapil Dev’s heartfelt reaction to India’s 2025 Champions Trophy win
Former Indian cricketer Kapil Dev congratulated the nation on the Men in Blue’s 2025 Champions Trophy triumph, emphasizing that the win was crucial following recent losses to New Zealand and Australia. Speaking with India Today, the 66-year-old remarked:
“Congratulations to everybody in the country, I think this type of a win brings so much happiness around, you can see the smiling face, I think fantastic, these types of things you can’t plan, when it happen, you can see the people’s face, they want to say something they can’t say because they don’t know what to say.”
“Victory like this was required when they played two bad series against New Zealand and in Australia, now they came back and played such fantastic cricket. There are no words to express, they made us proud,” he added.
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