India won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Gautam Gambhir is the Mastermind Behind India’s Champions Trophy Victory
India won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Gautam Gambhir is the Mastermind Behind India’s Champions Trophy Victory
India won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Gautam Gambhir’s master plan turned the Indian team into ICC Champions Trophy 2024 winners! From selecting five spinners to redefining KL Rahul’s role, discover how Gambhir’s strategies led to India’s historic triumph.
‘Gautam Gambhir’ was the hero of India’s victory, head coach’s master plan made the Hitman Brigade champion. The Indian team won the Champions Trophy after 12 years by defeating New Zealand on Sunday. Even though Rohit Sharma and his team remained undefeated on the field and defeated every team, another hero of this victory prepared the strategy behind the scenes. This hero is head coach Gautam Gambhir.
Gambhir’s strategy was criticized after the shameful 3-0 defeat in the Test series at home to New Zealand in October-November last year and the 3-1 defeat in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia. At the same time, ever since Gambhir took over the command of the Indian team, the team’s performance in the ODI format has been very poor.
India won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Gambhir faced a challenge
India lost the ODI series 2-0 in Sri Lanka. After the defeat in New Zealand and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the biggest challenge before Gambhir was to get India the ICC Champions Trophy title again after 12 years. Gambhir started preparing for the Champions Trophy with the three-match ODI series against England last month.
After the 3-0 win over England, Gautam Gambhir made a strategy of taking five spinners to Dubai. Many veterans raised questions on the inclusion of five spinners in the team, but Gambhir knew what he wanted from the team.
Left-handed young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was selected in the initial team for the Champions Trophy, was dropped and mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy was given a place in the team and later he proved to be the X-factor. In the league match against New Zealand, the semi-final against Australia, and the final against New Zealand, four spinners Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, and Ravindra Jadeja, and one fast bowler Mohammad Shami came out.
The new ball was handed to Hardik Pandya as the second fast bowler. This strategy of Gambhir became a headache for the opposing teams. Whether it was to promote Axar Patel and make him bat at number five, because it is Gambhir who likes the left-right hand combination very much.
India won the ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rahul’s role changed
Many questions were being raised on the selection of KL Rahul, but he gave a new role to his old teammate from Lucknow Super Giants. He was given the role of finisher at number six, while he is known for the role of anchor.
Rahul, who was the reason for India’s defeat by playing a slow innings in the final of the 2023 World Cup, emerged as a hero in this tournament. He hit long sixes as a finisher in this tournament and led the team to victory by remaining unbeaten in many matches including the final.
Rohit got the benefit of Gambhir’s preparation
Not only this, Hardik was given the role of number seven, which he played very well. The way captain Rohit Sharma used the bowlers beautifully inside the field was prepared by coach Gambhir sitting outside. When the Indian team lost the Test series to New Zealand and Australia, he was criticized the most.
He was trolled but still won the title
The Indian team has a contract with Dream Eleven as the main sponsor. Most of the big players advertise fantasy leagues but when Gautam posted about a fantasy league app before the final match, he was trolled.
Despite this, when the Indian team lifted the trophy at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday, Gambhir was standing quietly and smiling. This is Gambhir’s first ICC title as a coach.
