Decoding the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy in stats
What's the story
The ICC Champions Trophy 2025, co-hosted by Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), came to an end on March 9.
India won the tournament, clinching their third title in the prestigious tournament after 2002 and 2013.
Notably, India won each of their five games. They beat New Zealand by four wickets in the final in Dubai.
Here we look at all the key records scripted in the tourney.
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Ravindra scored the most runs
The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 witnessed New Zealand's Rachin Ravindra as the top-scorer with a phenomenal 263 runs.
India's Shreyas Iyer is second on the list with 243 runs. England stars Ben Duckett (227) and Joe Root (225) were third and fourth, respectively.
Virat Kohli (218) completes the top five. Meanwhile, South Africa's Rassie van der Dussen recorded the most 50-plus scores in the event (3).
Feats
Here are the other batting records
While the tournament witnessed 14 individual tons, only Ravindra could touch the mark twice.
Meanwhile, no other CT edition has marked more individual centuries.
Ben Duckett also created a new record for the highest score in Champions Trophy history, scoring a phenomenal 165 against Australia.
However, the record was soon broken by Afghanistan's Ibrahim Zadran, who scored a mind-boggling 177 against England.
These are the only individual 150-plus scores in CT history.
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Who scored the most boundaries?
NZ's Glenn Phillips and Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai clocked the joint-most sixes, clearing the fence eight times each. Ravindra (29) recorded the most fours. SA's David Miller (139.08) had the best strike rate among batters with at least 100 runs. India's KL Rahul had the best average in this regard (140).
Bowling
Henry leads the wicket-taking charts
NZ's Matt Henry ended as the leading wicket-taker. He finished with 10 wickets at 16.70 despite not playing the final game.
India's Varun Chakravarthy and Mohammed Shami finished with nine wickets apiece. Henry's teammate Mitchell Santner also recorded nine scalps.
NZ's Michael Bracewell (8 wickets) rounds off the top five.
Fifers
These players clocked fifers
Three of the four bowlers who claimed fifers in the tournament featured in the final match.
Chakravarthy (5/42 vs NZ, league stage), Henry (5/42 vs India, league stage), Shami (5/53 vs Bangladesh), and Afghanistan's Azmatullah Omarzai (5/58 vs England) are the ones with this feat.
Among bowlers with at least six wickets in the tourney, Chakravarthy (15.11), Henry (16.70), and SA's Wiaan Mulder (18.17) are the only ones with sub-20 averages.
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Who had the best economy rate?
Only two bowlers clocked economy rates below four in the event. Pakistan's Abrar Ahmed (3.75) and Harshit Rana (3.98) managed to do so. Meanwhile, Omarzai (17.86) and Henry (18.80) were the only ones with sub-20 bowling strike rates.
Totals
Highest and lowest totals
New Zealand (362/6 vs SA), Australia (356/5 vs England), and England (351/8 vs Australia) were the only teams with 350-plus totals.
Meanwhile, England (179/10 vs SA) were the only team to be bundled out below 200.
Kane Williamson and Ravindra's 164-run stand vs SA in the semi-final was the highest partnership.
Root-Duckett (158 vs Australia) and Bangladesh's Towhid Hridoy-Jaker Ali (154 vs India) were the other pairs with 150-plus stands.
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Here are the fielding records
Kohli and Williamson took the most catches by a fielder, seven each. No other fielder could even manage six grabs. KL Rahul (6) clocked the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper. NZ's Tom Latham (4) was the only other keeper with more than three dismissals.
Awards
Prize money distribution for ICC Champions Trophy 2025
The winners of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, India, were given a prize of ₹20 crore ($2.24 million). Runners-up New Zealand were given ₹9.72 crore ($1.12 million).
Semi-finalists Australia and South Africa were given ₹4.86 crore ($560,000) each, while Afghanistan and Bangladesh were given ₹3.04 crore ($340,000) for their fifth and sixth-place finishes respectively.
Pakistan and England took home ₹1.21 crore ($140,000) each for finishing seventh and eighth respectively in this prestigious tournament.