The star batter Virat Kohli who made sensible knocks against Pakistan and Australia in the group stage and semi finals of the Champions Trophy 2025 has expressed his pleasure on winning the third CT title.
Despite having a poor start against Bangladesh, he bounced back to form slamming a match-winning century against Pakistan and a sensible 84 runs knock against Australia leading to victory in the respective matches.
He broke several records during the tournament and also smashed his 51st ODI century.
Speaking at the post-match presentation, Virat Kohli said, It’s been amazing, we wanted to bounce back after a tough Australian tour, and wanted to win a big tournament, so to win the Champions Trophy is amazing.”
“Lovely playing with a bunch of such amazing youngsters. So much talent in the dressing room, they’re taking Indian cricket further in the right direction.”
“We’re happy to share our experience and try and make an impact whenever we get a chance (role of the seniors) but these guys are stepping up in a massive way and that’s why we’re such a strong team.”
“These are the things you look forward to when you’ve played for so long and have had such a long career, you look forward to playing under pressure and you walk in and put your hand up.”
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“I think to win titles, which has been missing in the past, the whole team has to step-up in different games. And you can see in this tournament, over the course of five matches, everyone has put their hand up somewhere or the other and that’s why we’ve ended up winning this tournament.”
“People have made such impactful knocks, such impactful spells and it’s only a collective effort which can win you a title.”
“I’m just so happy we were able to play as a unit and enjoy ourselves, we’ve had such an amazing time as a team here – in practice sessions, on the field, off the field – it’s been honestly an amazing amazing tournament for us,” added Virat Kohli.
“As Shubman said, I try to speak to these guys as much as possible, try to share my experience of how I’ve been able to play for so long, try to step in and improve their game wherever I can.”
“It’s only as they rightly say, when you leave, you want to leave the place in a better position and that’s our effort. That’s what we’re striving for and when eventually we’re finally done and whatever stage, we have a squad that’s ready to take on the world for the next 8-10 years,” said Virat Kohli.
“And these guys definitely have the talent to do so and the game awareness, they’ve stepped already on so many occasions and played so many impactful innings.”
“This guy (Shubman) and Shreyas have been beautiful, KL (Rahul) has been finishing games, Hardik is a matchwinner so we are in good hands.”
“Amazing (on the New Zealand team), we’ve always been in awe with what they can do with the limited number of players they’ve had over the years and just maximise their talent to the absolute maximum.”
“Every time you play against them in big games, you know they’re going to come hard and execute their plans. No other team executes their plans as well as they do.”
“Every fielder knows exactly where the bowler is going to bowl and you can sense it when they attack the ball, the bowler is going to be accurate and they know.”
“Credit to them, they’ve probably been the most consistent team over the last few years in big tournaments and the reason for that is their immense belief in their skills and the amount of talent that they have to utlise it to the maximum.”
“They’re easily the best fielding side in the world. Huge shoutout to them, they continue to display why they are one of the best teams in the world, again a great campaign.”
“Sad to see a very good friend of mine to be on the losing side (on Kane Williamson), but I’ve been on the losing side a couple of times when he’s been on the winning side. Nothing but love between us,” concluded Virat Kohli.
