After winning the Champions Trophy 2025, the Indian cricket team has become rich. In the final played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the Indian cricket team defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets. After this, the ICC gave crores of rupees as prize money to Team India. Not only this, the losing New Zealand team has also received crores of rupees as a reward.
India's first ICC trophy under Gautam Gambhir's coaching. Image- BCCI
Sports Desk, New Delhi. After winning the Champions Trophy 2025, money rained on the Indian cricket team. In the final played in Dubai, India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets. After this, the ICC opened the treasury for Team India. Along with the Indian team, the New Zealand team has also received prize money worth crores.
ICC increased the prize money of Champions Trophy by 53 percent compared to last time. Indian team got 2.4 million US dollars (about 19.5 crore rupees) after winning. Not only this, the losing New Zealand team was given 1.12 million dollars (about 9.72 crore rupees) as prize money.
Australia and South Africa, who were eliminated in the semi-finals, received a prize of $ 56,000 (Rs 4.86 crore). The total prize money of the Champions Trophy 2025 was $ 6.9 million (about Rs 60 crore).
Meanwhile, a question is arising in the minds of the fans that the Indian team has received crores of rupees after winning the trophy, but has the team's head coach Gautam Gambhir received any reward from the BCCI. Gambhir was appointed the head coach of the Indian team on July 9, 2024.
He replaced Rahul Dravid. After his appointment, the Indian team saw many ups and downs. Under Dravid's coaching, the Indian team won the T20 World Cup 2024. Gambhir, on the other hand, led Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL 2024 title.
Gambhir is one of the highest paid cricket coaches in the world. According to media reports, Gambhir gets an annual salary of around Rs 14 crore from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Not only this, he gets performance-based incentives, travel benefits, 5-star accommodation and an allowance of US$250 (about Rs 21,000) for foreign tours. Gambhir has not received any separate prize money for winning the Champions Trophy 2025.
India has not lost any T20 series under Gambhir's coaching. India defeated Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and England.
India lost the historic ODI series against Sri Lanka. However, they made a comeback by clean sweeping against England. In the Champions Trophy 2025, the Indian team won all the matches. In this way, the team won the Champions Trophy after 12 years.
The Indian team has not been able to do anything special so far under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. After defeating Bangladesh 2-0, India was defeated by New Zealand 3-0 at home. After this, the Indian team also lost 1-3 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. In such a situation, the team captained by Rohit Sharma could not reach the final of the World Test Championship 2025.
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