By Akshay - February 11, 2025 03:46 PMBest 5 matches in Champions Trophy history: The countdown to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has begun. The tournament is starting on 19 February. This tournament is to be organized for the first time since 2017, in which 8 teams are participating.
In this tournament which will last for 19 days, 8 teams will play a total of 15 matches. The first match will be played between Pakistan and New Zealand. This tournament is to be organized in Pakistan and Dubai. Team India will play all its matches in Dubai.
The first semi-final match between India and South Africa was played in Colombo in the Champions Trophy 2002. During this time, the captain of Team India was Sourav Ganguly, who scored 59 runs in 58 balls with the help of 10 fours. Rahul Dravid scored 49 runs. Yuvraj Singh scored 62 runs. In this way, India scored 261 runs after losing 9 wickets. In reply, South Africa's team collapsed at 251 runs in 50 overs despite Harshley Gibbs' innings of 116 runs and Jacques Kallis's 97 runs. Team India won this match by 10 runs.
In 2004, the final match of the Champions Trophy was played between England and West Indies at the Oval, in which Marcus Trescothick scored a century. Despite his innings, England could not win the title. Chasing a target of 218 runs, the West Indies team achieved the target in 48.5 overs. The Windies won this match against England by 2 wickets.
In 2009, a match of the Champions Trophy was played between South Africa and England, in which England scored 323 runs after losing 8 wickets. Owaisi Shah played an innings of 98 runs.
In response, the South African team could not chase the target and was all out for 141 runs. James Anderson and Stuart took 3-3 wickets for England and led the team to victory and with this victory, the England team reached the knockout stage.
In the Champions Trophy, a match was played between New Zealand and Sri Lanka in the year 2013. In this match, the Kiwi team bowled out Sri Lanka for 138 runs. Then while chasing the small target, they achieved it in 36.3 overs by losing 9 wickets. The Kiwi team also had a bad start. Only Martin Guptill played an innings of 25 runs from the team.
In 2017, the final match of the Champions Trophy was played between India and Pakistan. In this match, Pakistan gave India a target of 339 runs to win. In response, Team India collapsed for just 158 runs in 30.3 overs. India won the first title of the Champions Trophy by defeating Pakistan by 180 runs in the one-sided final of the Champions Trophy.
