Cricket in 2025: Let's wrap it up!
Cricket in 2025 was a year filled with entertainment and memorable moments. Across formats and continents, we could see great contests, long-awaited victories, and moments that will stay with fans for a long time. There were ups and downs as usual, but overall, the sport continues to evolve beyond the borders. So, let's see what happened in the last year as a whole. I will mainly focus on the Men's Cricket. (not Associate nations, women's, or leagues)
- So, overall, 2025 has been a busy year with so many bilatelaterals across all formats, and a few ICC main tournaments as well. In total, there have been
41 Test matches, 114 ODI matches, and 538 T20Is.
Major International Tournaments
- India lifted the ICC Champions Trophy, remaining unbeaten throughout the competition, defeating New Zealand in the final.
The ninth edition of the tournament was hosted by Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates from 19 February to 9 March 2025. Parallel to that, I hosted a Fantasy Contest which became a major success.
- One of the fascinating moments of 2025 was South Africa winning its maiden ICC tournament title, as they won the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. They defeated the mighty Australians in the finals, creating history. See the full details, here
The tournament was held from June 2023 to June 2025, with nine top teams playing 69 matches in 27 series.
India won the the Asia Cup in the T20 format, defeating Pakistan in a high thrilling tournament. I hosted another Fantasy Contest , for that as well.
Women’s cricket also became more and more popular, and memorable, as India won their first Women’s Cricket World Cup. They defeated in-form South Africa in the final. The tournament was held from 30 September to 2 November 2025, including 8 teams in India.
Major Stats
Let's see the key players and performance this year across three formats.
| Fact | Test | ODI | T20Is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most Runs | Shubman Gill (983) | Joe Root(808) | Brian Bennett(936) |
| Most Wickets | Mitchell Starc (55) | Matt Henry(31) | Mohammad Nawaz(36) |
| Highest Scores | Wiaan Mulder (367) | Ibrahim Zadran (177) | Phil Salt(141) |
| Best Bowling | Jomel Warrican(7/32) | IJayden Seales (6/18) | Mohammad Nawaz(5/19) |
| Most Catches | Harry Brook (25) | Michael Bracewell(19) | Tanzid Hasan(20) |
| Highest number of wins by a team | Australia(9) | New Zealand(17) | Pakistan (21) |
| Highest Team total | England (669) | Australia(431/2) | England(304/2) |
| Lowest Team total | West Indies (27) | South Africa(72) | Afghanistan(66) |
In Test Cricket, Wiaan Mulder of South Africa declared his innings, scoring 367 runs against Zimbabwe, eventhough he had the chance to pass Lara's world record. Other than that, there were 5 double centuries from Shubman Gill, Ryan Rickelton, Khawaja, Conway, and Justin Greaves.
Well, I have to remind you of IPL and BBL, as Royal Challengers Bangalore and Hobart Hurricanes finally won their maiden titles respectively, ending their trophy drought.
Indonesia all-rounder, Gede Priandana, created history by becoming the first bowler to take five wickets in an over in T20Is.
India won a Test match against England by 6 runs, which is the narrowest win ever in Test Cricket history.
Joey Root has now taken most catches in Test Cricket - 216 catches, surpassing Dravid's 210, and also this year he became the second-highest run-scorer in Test Cricket as well.
Virat Kohli became the second-highest run-scorer in ODI Cricket with 14,557 runs.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi of India stunned the World Cricket eventhough as a kid. He scored his maiden List A hundred at the age of 14 years and 272 days, becoming the youngest to do so, and he even made a century in the IPL this year.
Well, these are some of the notable stats of 2025. And there are many more to go in this list.
Retirements
The year also marked the end of several important careers. It's the time to remember their special memories as well.
- All formats - Martin Guptill, Varun Aaron, Tamim Iqbal, Wriddhiman Saha, Dimuth Karunaratne, Mahmudullah, Heinrich Klaasen, Piyush Chawla, Nicholas Pooran, Peter Moor, Andre Russell, Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Woakes
- ODIs - Marcus Stoinis, Steve Smith, Mushfiqur Rahim, Glenn Maxwell
- Test cricket - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Angelo Mathews
- T20I cricket - Mitchell Starc, Kane Williamson
Happy retirement Champs
So, 2025 has been an exciting year, and hopefully, we will have another packed and exciting year ahead as well.
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