Michael Vaughan, a retired England cricketer, has named India the top white-ball team. Sunday, March 9, in Dubai, The Men in Blue claimed their third ICC Champions Trophy trophy by four wickets over Captain Mitchell Santner’s New Zealand squad.
Several former cricketers and pundits have lauded India’s leading performance at the white-ball tournament. India’s performance in the last of the tournament appeared especially to astonish Vaughan as well. Vaughan stated on X (formerly Twitter) his opinion of India’s triumph: “Let’s be honest: By a good margin, India is the best team in the world in white ball cricket. “
Vaughan added that the Champions Trophy 2025 should go to India. The former cricketer was hoping that the opposition teams would have to try to reach India’s level.
He wrote: “Completely merited to win… Trophy holders of champions/twenty20 holders… It is now down to rest to seek to catch up.”
This response is days after Vaughan’s shot at Rohit Sharma and team last week. The ex England captain stated the Men in Blue would win the Champions Trophy at their remote home ground just before the final. As several sources have it, “India will win at their new home venue,” he wrote in a deleted response to a fan on X.
Vaughan likewise touched on India’s white-ball team depth in another post. Claiming the Rohit Sharma-led squad could have reached the final with a totally different lineup, he mentioned a few more stars. In another X post, he wrote, ” [Yashasvi] Jaiswal, [Tilak] Varma, [Abhishek] Sharma, Sky, [Rishabh] Pant, [Nitish Kumar] Reddy, [Washington] Sundar, [Yuzvendra] Chahal, Arsdeep [Singh], [Jasprit] Bumrah and [Ravi] Bisnoi…This team would likewise have reached the final according to me.”
With India losing the toss once more and fielding first, the high-octane last match happened. Rohit tied Brian Lara by losing the toss in 14 straight ODI games also. Unbeaten for 57, the Black Caps had a good start.
Running through the top order of the Kiwi side, the Indian spin-bowling tandem of Varun Chakravarty and Kuldeep Yadav completely changed the flow of the game. Rohit headed India’s chase with a 76-run score in the second innings. For his plunder as India claimed the competition at the Dubai International Stadium, he was given the Player of the Match prize.
