Mohammed Shami won the ICC trophy after losing 10 consecutive World Cups and Championships, ending the 12-year long wait

India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets in the final match of the Champions Trophy 2025 to win the trophy for the third time. This is India's second ICC trophy in the past 9 months. The team, besides this, also won an ICC ODI tournament after a gap of 12 years. A senior team member tasted victory for the very first time after the team suffered defeat in 10 consecutive ICC tournaments in a row.

This player is no other than the great fast bowler Mohammed Shami. Shami represented India in a total of 11 ICC events throughout his career. But in the last 10 times, he was defeated. Mohammed Shami made his India debut in the year 2013. Then came the T20 World Cup 2014, World Cup 2015, T20 World Cup 2016, Champions Trophy 2017, World Cup 2019, World Test Championship 2021, T20 World Cup 2021, T20 World Cup 2022, World Test Championship 2023 and World Cup 2023. But in all these, he was defeated. But this time it did not happen and he became a member of the champion team for the very first time.

Apart from Shami, this is also the first ICC trophy win for Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Varun Chakraborty, Sundar Washington, and Shubman Gill. Shami has performed well in the Champions Trophy 2025. The Dubai pitch was not at all favorable for fast bowlers. Despite this, he took 9 wickets in 5 matches at an average of 25.88, which included 5 wickets against Bangladesh. Shami also got 1 success in the final match.