‘These’ Indian captains played in ICC trophy finals before Rohit Sharma, see complete list

The Indian team dominated the four-match Border-Gavaskar Test series. India had won the first two matches. However, in the third Test, India suffered a shock defeat by Australia. Then on Monday (March 14), the match ended in a draw by agreement of both teams on the fifth day of the fourth Test. Thus India bagged the series 2-1. Rohit Sharma was leading the Indian team in this series. Rohit will be playing the first final of any ICC tournament as captain. However, do you know the captains who led India in the finals of ICC tournaments before Rohit? If not, let’s find out…

Before Rohit, ‘these’ captains have played the final match of ICC tournaments
Before Rohit Sharma, there have been 4 Indian captains who have played in the finals of ICC tournaments. 3 of these captains have had the honor of playing in the finals of ICC tournaments 2 or more times. Legendary former captain Kapil Dev got the honor of playing the first match of an ICC tournament. Under his leadership, India played its first World Cup in 1983. India won the World Cup by 43 runs. After that, India had to wait for 17 years to play the final match of the ICC tournament. India played the 2000 Champions Trophy final under the leadership of Sourav Ganguly. However, in this match, New Zealand shocked India by 4 wickets.

Two years later, in 2002, under the leadership of Ganguly, India again played the Champions Trophy final. India and Sri Lanka were declared joint winners as the match was interrupted by rain. After this tournament, in the next year i.e. 2003, India again played the final of the ODI World Cup under the leadership of Ganguly. In this match, Australia defeated the Indian team by 125 runs.

India won the first T20 World Cup under the leadership of Dhoni
After Ganguly, MS Dhoni got the honor of playing the final match of the ICC tournament. Dhoni led India to the final of the first-ever T20 World Cup in 2007. Not only this, India won the first ICC T20 trophy by defeating Pakistan by 5 runs. After that, India played the final match of the 2011 ODI World Cup under the leadership of Dhoni. In this match too, India won the second ODI World Cup defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets. This was Dhoni’s second World Cup. After that, India also played the final of the 2013 Champions Trophy under Dhoni’s leadership. In this match, India defeated England by 5 runs and won the title. Thus Dhoni won three ICC trophies for India. Dhoni then led India to the final of the 2014 T20 World Cup. However, Sri Lanka won by defeating India by 6 wickets.

Under the leadership of Virat, India played 2 finals of ICC tournaments
After Dhoni, India got a captain in the form of Virat Kohli. India played the 2017 Champions Trophy final under the leadership of Virat Kohli. In this match, Pakistan won by defeating India by a margin of 180 runs. After that, under the leadership of Virat, India played the final match of the 2021 World Test Championship Tournament. In this match, New Zealand won the trophy by defeating India by 8 wickets.

Indian captains who have played in the finals of ICC tournaments
Kapil Depp – ODI World Cup (1983)
Sourav Ganguly- Champions Trophy (2000)
Sourav Ganguly- Champions Trophy (2002)
Sourav Ganguly – ODI World Cup (2003)
MS Dhoni – T20 World Cup (2007)
MS Dhoni – ODI World Cup (2011)
MS Dhoni- Champions Trophy (2013)
MS Dhoni – T20 World Cup (2014)
Virat Kohli- Champions Trophy (2017)
Virat Kohli – World Test Championship Tournament (2021)
Rohit Sharma – World Test Championship (2023)*

The captain who has led India to the finals of most ICC tournaments
4 – MS Dhoni
3 – Sourav Ganguly
2 – Virat Kohli
1 – Kapil Dev
1 – Rohit Sharma*

Indian team led by Rohit in the WTC final
In the fourth test match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat. This time he had built a mountain of 480 runs on the strength of century by Usman Khawaja (180) and Cameron Green (114). India also put up a tough fight while chasing this challenge. India scored 571 runs on the strength of centuries by Virat Kohli (186) and Shubman Gill (128). After this, Australia scored 175 runs for the loss of 2 wickets on the fifth day of the match. However, the match was decided by the agreement of both the teams.

It happened that New Zealand won by 2 wickets in the first test match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand team. So now the Indian team has reached the final match of the World Test Championship for the second time in a row. Now India will face Australia. The final of the WTC tournament will be played from June 7 to 11 at London’s K Oval. It will be important to see whether Rohit wins this trophy for India in this match. (Indian Captains in ICC Finals)

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