The Champions Trophy 2025 win was special for Team India in many ways. The Indian team won the second consecutive ICC event. At the same time, after 12 years, an ICC won ODI event. Apart from this, this title was very special for a player of Team India. This player touched the ICC Trophy for the first time in his 12 -year long career. The shocking thing is that this player has played a total of 11 ICC events in his career. But on the last 10 occasions, only lost.
The squad of Team India for the Champions Trophy 2025 included many young players. Some of these players won the ICC Trophy for the first time. But the name of veteran fast bowler Mohammad Shami was also included in this list. Mohammed Shami had not won any ICC title before. In such a situation, he ended his long wait by winning the Champions Trophy 2025. He also contributed significantly to this victory of the team. He was the most successful bowler of the team.
Mohammed Shami's international career started in 2013. During this period, he got a chance to play in 2014 T20 World Cup, 2015 ODI Cup, 2016 T20 World Cup, 2017 Champions Trophy, 2019 ODI Cup, 2021 World Test Championship, 2021 T20 World Cup, 2022 T20 World Cup, 2022 T20 World Cup and 2023 ODI Cup. But on all these occasions, Team India had to face defeat. But this time this did not happen and he managed to be a part of the champion team for the first time. Apart from Shami, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill also won the first ICC trophy of their career.
Mohammed Shami returned to Team India after recovering from injury this year. Some people believed that he is still not fully fit. But Shami performed very strongly in this tournament. He took 9 wickets in 5 matches at an average of 25.88, including 5 wickets against Bangladesh. Shami also got 1 success in the final match.
