As the Champions Trophy 2025 is drawing near, the speculations around Rohit Sharma’s Captaincy have been increasing. But there is one Indian Captain who has been most successful in this ICC tournament. M.S Dhoni who remained India’s captain for a tenure of 11 years has represented the country in 200 matches. He has won 110 matches and faced defeat in 74 matches. Under his captaincy, only 4 matches were tied. He has a win percentage of 55%.

Who Beats Dhoni?

Although his overall captaincy tenure faced many successes if we talk about the Champions Trophy performance of India under M.S Dhoni, he was featured as skipper for the ‘Men in Blue’ in 8 Champions Trophy Matches in which he has led to the team to victory in 6 matches and lost 1 match. 1 game was unfortunately led to no result. He has a win percentage (%) of 75 which is the second highest among any other Champions Trophy captain. Only Pakistan’s Sarfaraz Khan outshines Dhoni in win % with a small margin of 5%.

Dhoni In Champions Trophy

Dhoni has managed to keep his win % at par with cricketing legends like Australia’s Ricky Ponting and former English captain Eoin Morgan who both have 75% win percentage. Strengthening the middle order, Dhoni usually came at No. 5 or 6. According to Cricmetric, Dhoni has played 8 innings in the Champions Trophy and managed to score 183 runs with a strike rate of 84.3 which includes 2 half centuries as well.

Rohit In Champions Trophy

The team will now be led by Rohit Sharma in this Champions Trophy edition and spectators are very eager to witnesses how Rohit Sharma will lead one of the most skilled cricket teams of the world. In 10 innings Rohit has scored 481 runs with 82.5 which included 4 centuries and 1 century.

Squad

Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill (Vice-captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (WK), Rishabh Pant (WK), Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohd. Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakaravarthy.