All Time Champions Trophy 11 Team
As the Champions Trophy 2025 is almost on the edge of starting from February 19 in Pakistan while the Indian team’s matches will be played in Dubai with an agreement for future ICC tournaments matches will be play on a neutral venue of India and Pakistan teams.
Along with this, let’s take a look at our All Time Champions Trophy 11 team based on the terms of giving the best performance in all the Champions Trophy matches so far.
It includes all the records whether it is of scoring runs while taking downs the oppositition bowlers or taking wickets or related to fieldling like a fire on the field. On the basis of all these numbers we have came out with the most reputed players of Champions Trophy in our All Time Champions Trophy 11 team.
World’s famous cricketers have made their place in the list, on the other hand many of great cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Shoaib Akhtar, Brett Lee etc couldn’t select in our top priorities for this list of our All Time Champions Trophy 11 team.
1. Chris Gayle – Opener
Chris Gayle played his first Champions Trophy match in 2002 and played his last match in 2013. With this, he scored 791 runs in 17 innings of 17 matches, being unbeaten twice, his average was 52.73 throughout his career in Champions Trophy. Chris Gayle is on the number one among all batsman who has scored the most runs in the Champions Trophy, who used to create panic amongst the bowlers with his fearsome batting style.
Apart from this, Chris Gayle also showed great strength in his bowling and he took 17 wickets in 14 innings of 17 matches and due to this, he got a place in the All Time Champions Trophy 11 team as an opener.
2. Shikhar Dhawan
Shikhar Dhawan played the key role in India winning the Champions Trophy in 2013, who scored 701 runs in 10 innings of 10 matches at a strike rate of 101 and his average was 77.88 in both Champions Trophy seasons .
He has also scored three centuries and three half centuries in his Champions Trophy career so far and that is why Shikhar Dhawan has been selected as the second opener in the All Time Champions Trophy 11 team.
3. Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli, who is known as the greatest of all time(GOAT) was successful in leaving his mark in the Champions Trophy, although he did not score a single century in all his matches in the Champions Trophy, but his 529 runs with an average of 88.16 while being not out six times in 12 innings of 13 matches with his 96 not out as high score are the example of his world class batting.
4. Kumar Sangakara – Wicket Keeper
Kumar Sangakara, who was once called the backbone of Sri Lanka, has been selected as the wicketkeeper in this All Time Champions Trophy 11 team. His wicket-keeping records shows that he has made his team win the match from behind the wicket as well. Sangakara dismissed 33 batsmen in 20 innings of 22 matches, out of which 28 were catches and five were stumps.
He scored 683 runs in 22 matches, being not out thrice, in which his average was 37.94 and one century was 134*, which was also his high score and four half centuries are registered on his bat.
5. Jacques Kallis
Jacques Kallis was the Man of the Match as well as Man of the Tournament of ICC Champions Trophy 1998.
South Africa’s specialist all-rounder scored 653 runs in 17 innings of 17 matches from the inaugural season of the Champions Trophy in 1998 to 2009.
His average was 46.64 in champions trophy tournament along with this, he has also won many matches for South Africa with his bowling and he took 20 wickets in 15 innings of 17 matches, in which his economy rate was 4.92 while he also took one five wicket haul in the Final of Wills International Cup or ICC Champions Trophy 1998.
6. Sourav Ganguly – Captain
Sourav Ganguly, famous as Dada in the Indian cricket legacy, scored 665 runs in 11 innings of 13 matches from the first season of Champions Trophy 1998 to ICC Champions Trophy 2004, in which his high score was unbeaten 141 and his average was 73.88 in which Sourav Ganguly scored three centuries and three half centuries for team India.
7. Shane Watson
Shane Watson is an example of the best all-rounder for Australia and scored 453 runs in 15 innings in 17 matches. He also scored two centuries and two half centuries while his high score was 136 not out. Apart from this, he also took 17 wickets while bowling in 15 innings and contributed to Australia winning the match with an economy rate of 4.12 runs per over.
8. Kyle Mills
New Zealand’s fast bowler Kyle Mills has remained the topper among all bowlers so far in the Champions Trophy by taking 28 wickets in 15 innings of 15 matches in which he also took two five-wickets hauls.
9. Glenn McGrath
Australia’s most economical bowler Glenn McGrath is included in this list, who took 21 wickets in 12 innings of 12 matches and also took one five-wicket haul with an economy rate of only 4.03.
10. Lasith Malinga
Due to his strange action, Malinga was able to secure the rim of the yorker length bowling and remained at the second position in wicket taking bowlers’ list. He played 16 matches and took 25 wickets with economy of 5.31.
11. Muthiah Muralidharan
Muthiah Muralidharan was the magician of his finger, he took 24 wickets, due to his classical and unreadable spin, his economy is also the lowest at 3.6 in Champions Trophy. Muralidharan is the only spinner to be selected in the All Time Champions Trophy 11 team while Chris Gayle also knows how to bowl spin with quick bowling.
12. James Anderson – 12th Man
James Anderson has been selected as the 12th player in this All Time 11 of Champions Trophy because he has given very good performances, he took 21 wickets in 12 innings and his economy rate was 4.5 only, which shows his consistency on line and length.
Apart from this, other players in this team were not able to make a place even though having good performances in Champions Trophy career.
Here are some names with classical performances such as Adam Gilchrist could have been included in this list as a wicket-keeper but Kumar Sangakara’s wicket-keeping record and batting record were much better than Gilchrist. While Ravindra Jadeja’s bowling record was good, his batting did not show any edge in the Champions Trophy career but better luck for this time as he is still in the playing squad of India for Champions Trophy 2025.
