Champions Trophy 2025: Every Controversy and Records Happened during Marquee Event

The Champions Trophy 2025 will have its one last ride that will be held on 9th March 2025 in Dubai where two best teams of the tournament India and New Zealand will compete against each other for the prestigious title.

Here in this article, we will dive deep into all the controversies and records created during Champions Trophy 2025 to be shared in the below format.

Records in Champions Trophy 2025:

1. David Miller becomes fastest in the ongoing Champions Trophy 2025 to score hundred from 67 balls in Lahore.

The Hundred might not get enough credit in times to come as it came in the losing cause.

2. 126 Sixes have been hit in the ongoing Champions Trophy 2025 in 12 matches and it is certainly the highest number of sixes in the single marquee event.

If you look at the way how template in terms of playing cricket has changed over the years- first edition of Champions Trophy was held in 2000 where only 5 sixes were hit by batters in comparison to now where there is huge difference just in terms of approaching Cricket.

3. New Zealand Scored 362 runs in the ongoing Champions Trophy 2025, which is the highest score attained by any team in this marquee event,

Irrespective of Venue where final match will be played, this seems to be the highest score as Dubai average score is 240 runs.

4. 707 runs scored in the ongoing Champions Trophy which is the highest score in the single match build by both teams it might get broken considering the nature of cricket these days.

5. New Zealand fielding in this tournament have been mouth staggering, where they have dropped only 1 catch out of 32 catches with 97% success percentage.

Some Interesting aspect of India and New Zealand Road to Final Story can be depicted in the sequential format shared below:

**India’s Story:

** Top Run Scorer for India: 217 runs

**Top Strike Rate for India: 108

**Highest Sixes for India: 5

**Highest Fours for India: 17

**Top Run Average for India: 106

**Century Hitters for India: 2 (101* not out scored by Shubhman Gill vs Bangladesh & Virat Kohli unbeaten 100 runs against Pakistan)

For New Zealand:

Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson have already scored 1 century each

Santner accuracy in this Ongoing Champions Trophy where 58% deliveries have projected at the stumps which is highest for any spinners in any ICC event.

Controversies happened during Champions Trophy 2025:

Two Controversies primarily happened during Champions Trophy 2025, be it ICC favoring Indian Cricket where all the matches were held in Dubai and they aren’t travelling and staying at the same hotel.

Skipper Rohit Sharma and Coach Gautam Gambhir hit back at those critics stating that “Dubai is not our home also we don’t know which surface we are playing so we adapt the conditions on the game day” Rohit stated while talking to Press Conference ahead of India vs Australia Semifinal.

Gambhir added “What conditions these foreign experts are talking about we practice at ICC academies not here in the ground so these perpetual cribbers needs to stop crying”

These statement from Rohit and Gambhir was direct shut up call to England experts including the likes of- Naseer Husain and Michael Atherton.

The other controversy which pipped up is related British MP who wrote letter to England Cricket Board to boycott their games against Afghanistan due to Taliban government imposing anti-women sports policies.

That seriously went against England as they lost against Afghanistan ultimately knocked out of the tournament.

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