Every year the international cricket council organizes lots of tournaments. Basically, the ICC organizes 4 tournaments every year. Those tournaments are- T20 World Cup, Champions Trophy, World Cup, and World test Championship. After every two years, the T20 world cup and the Champions Trophy takes place whereas the World Cup takes place after every four years. And the World Championship happened for the first time and the winner is New Zealand. The matches continue throughout the years and the winner is decided at the final between two teams. Let us take a look at every inaugural ICC tournament winner.

1. West Indies

The first-ever biggest tournament in One-Day International cricket took place in 1975. The inaugural of the men's cricket world cup was organized by ICC in 1975. The venue was England and it was played from 7 June to 21st June. West Indies became the first country to win the World Cup in the Lord's. Australia and West Indies played the final where West Indies defeated Australia by 17 runs and became the first world cup winners. The contribution of the captain was immense in the game as he made the most number of runs for the team by making 102. As a result, the captain of the West Indies team, Clive Lloyd became the Player of the Match.

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2. South Africa

The inaugural of the the ICC Champions Trophy took place in 1998. Back then Champions Trophy was denoted as Mini World Cup. The final match between West Indies and South Africa was exciting and very thrilling. The match was in the hand of West Indies till the first 75 overs. Then entered Hansie Cronje and his crew. The match took an entire turn and South Africa became the first ever winner of the Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Hansie Cronje. The worldwide famous all rounder, Jacques Kallis became the player of the match and player of the tournament as well.

3. India

Under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India won the inaugural 2007 ICC T20 World Cup final in the Imperial Wanderers Stadium. The final was the most exciting match as it was between the biggest rivals- India and Pakistan. Gautam Gambhir scoreboard 75 runs from 54 balls and became the highest run-scorer of the final. Irfan Khan bowled for 4 overs and gave only 16 runs by picking up 3 wickets. Also, Irfan Khan became the man of the match and Shahid Afridi became the man of the series.

4. New Zealand

It has not been even a week since the World Test Championship final. After long two years, India and New Zealand played the finals in the Southampton stadium. The intensified final was disturbed by England's rainy weather quite a few times but the match was extended and New Zealand became the first-ever champion of the inaugural World Test Championship. The performance of the New Zealand team was exactly how a team should play in the finals. Starting from bowling to batting to fielding they gave their best and no wonders why they won the series as well.

The newest addition to the Kiwi bowling lineup, Kyle Jamieson became the man of the match for his outstanding display on the field. He destroyed the Indian batting lineup by picking up the most crucial wickets of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Rishabh Pant. The entire team showed outstanding performance under the captaincy of Kane Williamson. As a result, they won the first-ever World Test Championship.

India's performance in the ICC events has been mixed in recent years. The title win over South Africa in the T20 World Cup 2024 ended India’s 11-year-long ICC title drought after it last won a global tournament back in 2013 - the ICC Champions Trophy.

Their latest triumph came via Champions Trophy 2025, as they defeated New Zealand by four wickets in Dubai in the final. It was the second consecutive ICC trophy for India under Rohit Sharma's captaincy.

So far, India have collected 7 ICC trophies including two 50 over World Cups, three Champions Trophy, and two T20 World Cups in 2007 and 2024.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won 3 ICC events as a captain and Rohit Sharma has 2 in those 7 ICC trophies that India won so far. In this article, SportzPoint will give you  details on India's performances in every ICC tournaments so far.

ICC Cricket World Cup (1975 - 2023):

The International Cricket Council (ICC) started the ODI World Cup back in the year 1975. From then, ICC organized the tournament a total of 13 times. Australia are the most successful in the format as they won 6 titles so far.

India won their first World Cup under Kapil Dev back in 1983 and next under Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2011. With 2 titles India are the second most successful team alongside West Indies in the 50 overs format after Australia. 

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Indian Men's Cricket team also lost two ODI World Cup finals, one under Sourav Ganguly in 2003 and another one under Rohit Sharma in 2023. Here is how India performed in the each of the 13 editions of the ICC Cricket World Cup.

India's performance in every ICC Cricket World Cup

ICC Champions Trophy (1998 - 2025):

ICC started a new tournament of the 50 overs format in 1998 called the Champions Trophy. It was also referred as a "Mini World Cup". Till 2006 the Champion's Trophy was held every two years. After that, it continues with a gap of 4 years from 2009.

In 2003, India reached the Finals of the tournament along with Sri Lanka. As the match got washed out and India were declared joint winners.

However, India finally won the ICC Champions Trophy under MS Dhoni in 2013 after defeating England by 5 runs.

In 2025, India defeated New Zealand by four wickets in Dubai to lift the trophy for the third time. It was the second consecutive ICC trophy for India under Rohit Sharma's captaincy.

Let's take a look at India's performance in the tournament so far.

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India's performance in Champions Trophy so far

ICC T20 World Cup (2007 - 2024):

International Cricket Council introduced a new format marquee tournament in 2007 as T20 Cricket started to grow globally. ICC started the T20 World Cup in the year 2007. India defeated their arch-rival Pakistan in the final that year and won the inaugural T20 World Cup under MS Dhoni.

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Since then, the Indian cricket team became runners-up in 2014 and then finally lifted the trophy again in 2024 under Rohit Sharma.

India's performance in every T20 World Cup

ICC World Test Championship (2019-2025):

ICC World Test Championship started in the year 2019 as New Zealand won the inaugural WTC after defeating India in the ICC World Test Championship 2021 Final.

India once again qualified for the Test Championship final in 2023 and this time, it was Australia who challenged them. India bottled their chance to win an ICC trophy after waiting for a decade and lost the match by a huge margin of 209 runs. 

In 2023-25 World Test Championship, India failed to qualify for the final.

India's performance in every WTC

ICC tournaments is what for every cricket player is waits for. However, reaching the finals as a captain of their national side is a different kind of achievement for any player around the globe.

Meanwhile, in this article Sportzpoint will give you the details of the players who played the most ICC Finals as captain of their side.

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Kane Williamson | New Zealand | 3 ICC Finals

• ICC ODI World Cup 2019
  
• ICC World Test Championship 2021
  
• ICC T20 World Cup 2021

The former blackcaps captain Kane Williamson has played 3 ICC finals as captain. That's include, 2019 ICC ODI World Cup, 2021 WTC and 2021 T20 World Cup.

In which, Kane led his team through the finals but failed two times to lift the trophy. However, New Zealand lifted the first World Test Championship under him in 2021.

Although, Kane loses the world cup 2019 final against England on a boundary count. After the loss in 2019 NZ again loses under Kane in the T20 World Cup 2021 final against the Aussies.

Sourav Ganguly | India | 3 ICC Finals

• ICC Champions Trophy 2000
• ICC Champions Trophy 2002
• ICC ODI World Cup 2003

The former BCCI President and Indian skipper, Sourav Ganguly has guided India in 3 ICC finals. In those finals India lost two of them.

Sourav Ganguly's only victory in an ICC tournament, 2002 ICC Champions Trophy. However, that trophy was shared with Sri Lanka. Dada had two more hits at an ICC championship but unfortunately failed.

Ganguly had taken over the reins of the Indian Team after the infamous fixing controversy. A relatively inexperienced skipper then, Ganguly did well to help India reach the finals of the 2000 Champions Trophy.

The southpaw even hit a century in that game and had the match in control, but the Kiwis chased down India's target of 265 with two balls remaining.

Later, in South Africa, Ganguly led India to the finals of the 2003 World Cup but was blown away by a dominant performance by the Aussies.

Clive Lloyd | West Indies | 3 ICC Finals

• ICC ODI World Cup 1975
• ICC ODI World Cup 1979
• ICC ODI World Cup 1983

No true cricket fan can ever forget the name of the first-ever World Cup-winning captain Clive Lloyd.

Clive Lloyd is credited for leading West Indies to both of its ICC Cricket World Cup titles. He captained the West Indian side between 1974 to 1985 and moulded them into a dominant test-playing nation during his time.

West Indies won both the inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup in 1975 and the second Cricket World Cup in 1979 under Lloyd.

However, in 1983 ODI World Cup Clive Lloyd's team loses in the finals against India. So the carebean great played 3 ICC finals as captain for his side.

Brian Lara | West Indies | 3 ICC Finals

• ICC Champions Trophy 1998
• ICC ODI World Cup 1999
• ICC Champions Trophy 2000

Another carebean batting giant, Brian Lara comes on the list of most ICC Finals as captain.

Lara has played 3 ICC finals as captain in his career and two of them are Champions Trophy. However, another one is ICC cricket World Cup in 1999,that they lost in the finals.

After the 1979 World Cup, West Indies had not won an ICC Trophy.

A legendary batsman, the task of winning a trophy fell on Brian Lara's shoulders. The most experienced ODI captain of the West Indies, Lara won one Champions Trophy but lost two of them in the finals.

Rohit Sharma* | India | 4 ICC Finals

• ICC World Test Championship 2023
• ICC ODI World Cup 2023
• ICC T20 World Cup 2024
• ICC Champions Trophy 2025

Rohit Sharma is now the only captain to have led his team to the finals of all International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments: ODI World Cup, T20 World Cup, Champions Trophy and World Test Championship (WTC). And he has achieved that in just three years' time.

In 2023, India qualified for the WTC final and the ODI World Cup final, losing to Australia on both the occasions. The next year, in 2024, India won the T20 World Cup under Rohit by beating South Africa in the final.

It was India's first ICC title in 10 years and the second T20 World Cup triumph since 2007.

India defeated New Zealand by four wickets to lift the Champions Trophy 2025 title. After this Rohit joins MS Dhoni as the two captains to have led India to victory in the tournament. India previously won the title under MS Dhoni's captaincy in 2013.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni | India | 4 ICC Finals

• ICC T20 World Cup 2007
• ICC ODI World Cup 2011
• ICC Champions Trophy 2013
• ICC T20 World Cup 2014

The leader who changed the face of Indian Cricket holds the second position in the Most ICC Finals as captain list.

From winning a T20 and an ODI World Cup to taking India to the top of Test Cricket, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has done it all for the Indian Cricket Team. Apart from test mace, India has won three ICC trophies under his leadership.

Dhoni's journey of being a successful captain began when he led India to the inaugural ICC T20 World Cup win in 2007. However, his most significant achievement as the captain of the Indian Cricket team came in 2011.

Under his leadership, India finally ended their 28-year World Cup drought and defeated Sri Lanka to lift their second ODI World Cup. Almost every one of you might remember Dhoni's unbeaten 91 in the final, which was one of the factors that helped India win the trophy.

Finally, Dhoni also helped add ICC Champions Trophy 2013 to India's trophy cabinet. They defeated England and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the final.

Ricky Ponting | Australia | 4 ICC Finals

• ICC ODI World Cup 2003
• ICC Champions Trophy 2006
  
• ICC ODI World Cup 2007
  
• ICC Champions Trophy 2009

Former Australia skipper, Ricky Ponting is one of the most successful captains in the history of International Cricket. He made sure that Australia remains the dominating force in International Cricket after the retirement of Steve Waugh. 

Ponting led Australia in 77 Tests, 230 ODIs, and 17 T20Is.
Ricky Ponting led Australia to four ICC finals in his career.

Meanwhile, he wins four of them and became the most successful captain in cricket history. A fascinating thing about these four trophy wins is that they all came during just seven years, from 2003 to 2009.

Under Ponting, Australia first retained the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2003. He came out as the third-highest scorer of the tournament with three centuries and won the man of the match award in the final.

Performing in ICC events is what every player dreams to do for his team. Each player wants to contribute to his team at the highest level of the game and ICC events are at that level. Be it a batsman or a bowler each & every player contributes to his team's victory at the ICC events. In this article, we will take a look into those five players who took the most wickets for India in ICC events so far.

#1. Mohammed Shami | 77 wickets

Mohammed Shami has been the most influential bowler for India in ICC events. The fast bowler played only 36 matches in ICC events including ICC Men's ODI and T20 World Cups and Champions Trophy and has taken 77 wickets so far. 

Shami has an incredible average of 16.53 runs per wicket in ICC events while his strike rate of 17.3 proves how lethal he has been for India when it matters the most. His five five-wicket hauls are also a record for India in ICC events. 

Not only that, his 55 wickets in the ODI World Cup is fifth fifth-highest in cricket history and the best among Indian bowlers. 

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#2. Zaheer Khan | 71 wickets

Former Indian pacer Zaheer Khan is second in the list of the most wickets for India in the ICC events. The left-arm pacer took a total of 71 wickets in 44 matches. Moreover, he is also the 2nd highest wicket-taker as a pacer for India across formats, following Kapil Dev. He has 610 wickets across formats including 282 wickets in ODIs and 17 wickets in T20Is.

In ICC events, Zaheer has an average of 22.25 and a strike rate of 26.8, with 4 four-wicket hauls. His performance for India in the 2011 World Cup is one of the most underrated performances in World Cup history. 

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#3. Ravindra Jadeja | 69 wickets

Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has also contributed to his team in ICC events. Be it with batting, bowling or fielding Jadeja has always been in the game. The left-arm orthodox spinner has taken 69 wickets in 65 games for India at the ICC events. 

The left-arm spinner has been part of several ICC events for India. He has an incredible bowling average of 29.27 and a strike rate of 33.3. Jadeja also has two five-wicket hauls for India in ICC events. 

#4 Jasprit Bumrah | 68 wickets

Following Ravindra Jadeja on the list is one of the greatest pacers to play for India, Jasprit Bumrah. The once-in-a-generation bowler has been incredible for India in every format he has played for, 

Bumrah's sheer accuracy and ability to take wickets at any stage of the match has enabled captains to use him in crucial moments. His incredible wicket-taking skills also helped him win the Player of the Tournament award in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, where India was victorious. 

Till now in 43 matches in ICC Events, Bumrah has taken 68 wickets at an average of 19.50 runs per wicket with a strike-rate of 25.2 balls per wicket. Astonishingly, Bumrah is yet to take any five-wicket haul in ICC events. 

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#5. Ravichandran Ashwin | 59 wickets

 Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is always known for his role in the longer format of the game. But, very few know what he has done for India in the limited-overs format, especially in ICC events.

He comes just after Jasprit Bumrah in this list of most wickets for India in ICC events. So far Ashwin has taken 59 wickets in 43 matches that he played for India in ICC events.

Before Ravindra Jadeja took over, Ravichandran Ashwin was India's most successful spinner for India in ICC events. The former off-spinner averages 23.00 with the ball and also has a great strike rate of 26.6 in ICC Events.

#6. Harbhajan Singh | 50 wickets

Another off-spinner has occupied his place in this list. Harbhajan Singh comes up after Ravichandran Ash in this list of most wickets for India in ICC events. Bhajji has taken a total of 50 wickets in 53 matches that he has played for India in the ICC events.

The former spinner has some brilliant records in his cricket career, especially in Tests and ODIs. Harbhajan has taken 711 wickets in his career including 411 tests, 269 ODIs, and 25 T20I wickets.

The spinner has done well for India in the ICC events by taking wickets in crucial times. Bhajji has bowled with an average of 33.36 in ODIs and 25.32 in T20Is.

N.B: The stats are accurate as of 4/3/2025 and updated by Koushik Biswas

Australia defeated Pakistan by one wicket in a last-over thriller after chasing down the 180-run target in the final over of the second semifinal of the ICC U19 World Cup 2024. With this win over Pakistan, Australia have set up a final clash against India in a rematch of the senior World Cup 2023 Final.

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The Australian U19 team successfully chased down a target of 180 runs after Pakistan was bowled out for 179 in their first innings. The Australian side showed their nerves under pressure, and somehow managed to clinch the victory.

Pakistan had an early batting collapse. Despite the team's historical success in the tournament, having won the U19 World Cup twice before, they didn't look like the favourites.

Azan Awais (52) and Arafat Minhas (52) struck half-centuries to help Pakistan post 179 in 48.5 overs. Tom Straker bagged six wickets for Australia while Ali Raza kept Pakistan alive in the contest with his match-changing final over but Rafael MacMillan helped the Aussies win the match to secure a definite spot in the final of the tournament.

Harry Dixon played an inning of 50 off 75 balls while Ollie Peake scored valuable 49 runs from 75 balls while Tom Campbell scored 25 off 42. The Australians lost some important wickets towards the end, but vice-captain Rafael MacMillan played a match-winning inning of 19* off 29 balls alongside, scoring the winning runs in the end.

Batsmen play responsibly and often score big totals, even double centuries. Only a few batters have consistently performed at the highest level and scored the most runs. The ODI fixture of 2023 was a bit hectic compared to other years on account of cricket's biggest festival, the 13th edition of the ODI Cricket World Cup which was recently played in India. It's time, we look at the players who have scored the Most ODI Runs in 2023 in this article of SportzPoint.

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Top Five Batters with Most ODI Runs in 2023

Shubman Gill has been incredible in the ODIs and gained the top position on the chart of the most ODI runs in 2023. The 23-year-old from Punjab has represented his country in 29 matches and scored 1584 runs at a staggering average of 63.36 and an impressive strike rate of 105.45. His best inning of 208 in 149 balls came against New Zealand in Hyderabad in the 1st ODI of the New Zealand tour of India.

The Indian opener also had a brilliant ICC CWC 2023 outing but unfortunately couldn't help India lift the title. He scored 350 runs in 9 matches with an average of 43.75.

King Virat Kohli has been at his absolute best this calendar year. He finds himself in 2nd place on the list of most ODI runs in 2023. Kohli's role has been significant in winning games for the Indian team. Averaging a staggering 72.47, the 36-year-old has scored 1377 runs in 27 matches, including 6 centuries and 8 fifties.

His performance for India throughout the World Cup had been terrific. Virat Kohli finished the tournament as the top scorer with 765 runs with an unbelievable average of 95.62.

The Indian skipper is in the 3rd spot on the most ODI runs in the 2023 tally. Rohit scored 1255 runs in just 27 ODIs at a healthy average of 52.29. The Hitman has smashed 2 centuries and 9 fifties to support his great run while one of his centuries came in the grand ODI World Cup 2023.

Rohit had a terrific World Cup with the bat, scoring 597 runs, the second-most after his teammate Virat Kohli in just 11 matches at a dominating strike rate of 125.

In ODIs this year, Mitchell became the fourth player with 1,200-plus runs. He owns 1,204 runs at 52.34. Mitchell slammed his fifth ODI hundred in 2023 and ended as the second-highest scorer for NZ at the 2023 World Cup. Daryl Mitchell struck 552 runs at 69.00 in the competition.

Nissanka was one of the reasons for Sri Lanka's qualification in the 2023 World Cup in India. He occupies the 5th place on this honorable list. Having played 29 matches, the right-handed batter has scored 1151 runs at an outstanding average of 44.26. His 417 runs out of 687 runs appeared in the WC qualifiers 2023, the 2nd highest in the event. His tally of runs consists of 2 centuries and 9 fifties.

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Top Ten Batters with Most ODI Runs in 2023