India’s championship run at the Champions Trophy 2025 owes much to slow Dubai pitches and runs from Shreyas Iyer and K L Rahul. Iyer has demonstrated his worth to the team after a roller-coaster year in which he simultaneously won the IPL and lost his central contracts. World Cup champion in 1983 Dilip Vengsarkar, who has also served as a BCCI chief selector, could not be happier for the middle-order batter.
“Iyer played very good, but I am not pleased with the way he went out in the end.” He should have completed the game and carried on till the end. Still, glad to observe him recognize his potential. Though KL also batted at number six, he is still not absolutely sure about Axar Patel batting ahead of him at five. The left-hand right-hand combination could be the only cause,&”he remarked.
Fair credit for the selection committee under Ajit Agarkar also went to Vengsarkar.
Furthermore, the selectors deserve credit. After the Australia series, they stayed on Rohit. Even the choice to have five spinners in the team was a masterstroke,&apostrophe; he added.
Including back-to-back half-centuries versus Pakistan and New Zealand in the group stage, Iyer ended the competition with 243 runs in five matches, which was India’s top run-scoring. In the final, he had a crucial knock of 48 runs and helped India meet the spin challenge presented by Dubai’s slow pitches.
I believe there is no better feeling other than than when you see you are the team’s top run-getter. It’s surreal. Still, I think I might have completed the game (final).
Although at the end of the day, every player wants to complete the game for the team. I would take this next day, and I extremely happy the way every person helped team triumph, catalogs/contributes.
In the Champions Trophy Team of the Tournament, Iyer also featured alongside Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, and Varun Chakaravarthy. By winning my first ICC trophy, I believe it’s a great sensation generally. He finished, “This is the fifth year for me and honestly grateful and fortunate.