The Indian captain Rohit Sharma who made a sensible knock of 76 runs in the finals of the Champions Trophy 2025, has been named as the Player of the Match.
Playing a steady innings, his knock laid a solid platform for the side’s successful run chase in the summit clash against New Zealand.
The Men in Blues secured their third Champions Trophy title after successfully chasing 251 runs against the Kiwis. Playing an aggressive start Rohit Sharma has contributed only less but set a scoring phase with a comfortable run rate.
New Zealand won the toss and batted first to score 251 runs with fifties from Daryl Mitchell and Michael Bracewell in their innings.
Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav bagged two wickets each while Shami and Jadeja picked one wicket each.
In the pursuit of chasing 251 runs, Rohit Sharma went on to score 76 runs and contributions from Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya helped the side to achieve the ultimate glory.
Speaking at the post match presentation, Rohit Sharma said, “It is very nice. We played some really good cricket through the tournament, to come out and have the result our way is a great feeling, very happy with how we played this game.”
Rohit Sharma rises to the occasion in the #ChampionsTrophy Final with a sublime half-century 🤩
He wins the @aramco POTM award 🎖️ pic.twitter.com/7hTBSap5sY
— ICC (@ICC) March 9, 2025
“It is not natural to me but it is something I really wanted to do, when you are trying something different you need the backing of the team and they were with me, Rahul bhai in the 2023 World Cup and now with Gauti bhai.”
“I have played all these years in a different style, I wanted to see if we can get results by playing differently.”
Having played here on a few occasions, you understand the nature of the pitch, using the feet is something I have been doing for a while now, I have gotten out as well.”
“But I never wanted to look away from that. It makes it easier and gives you that freedom, that’s why I wanted that batting depth, Jadeja coming at 8 gives you that confidence to go hard, if it comes off it comes off. Most important thing is that I am clear in my mind” he concluded.
