Champions Trophy: The best team won, but Indian officials could have been more gracious
ICC Chairman Jay Shah greets India’s captain Rohit Sharma during the presentation ceremony of the ICC Champions Trophy after their win against New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on March 9, 2025.
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Is this India’s greatest white ball era and ODI team? The results would seem to suggest that. India have won 23 of 24 matches in global tournaments, the defeat coming in the final of the 2023 World Cup. They didn’t need any help from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, but the fact that they played the Champions Trophy final against a team that had travelled more than seven thousand kilometres, from Karachi to Rawalpindi to Dubai to Lahore and ba...
