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This year, from the India-Pakistan Asia Cup final to Team India’s victory in The Oval Test match against England, fans will never forget it.
Delhi, The year 2025 is going to bid farewell with many good and bad memories. In a few days, a new ray of new dawn of a new year is going to appear. There will be a busy schedule of cricket in the year 2026, but before that it becomes necessary to talk about the year 2025.
This year, a lot of matches were played in all three formats, where there were many such matches which reached the pinnacle of thrill. Among these exciting matches, some matches were also like this. Who settled in the hearts of the fans forever. So let us tell you in this article those 5 big matches of the year 2025, which fans will never forget.
1.India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2025 Final
In the year 2025, 4 matches were played between the two biggest rival teams of the cricket world, India and Pakistan, in which the final match of the Asia Cup was the most interesting. Indo-Pak clash took place 3 times in this tournament, but the final match proved to be the biggest blockbuster. In this match, Pakistan batted first and scored 146 runs.
In response to this, Team India at one time lost 3 top order batsmen at the score of 20 runs. After this, Tilak Verma played a tremendous innings, first Sanju Samson and later Shivam Dubey gave full support to Tilak and in a nail biting match, India won the title by defeating Pakistan by 5 wickets with 2 balls remaining. Tilak Verma played a valuable unbeaten inning of 69 runs.
2. India vs England, The Oval Test
The Indian cricket team had registered a historic victory in the last Test match of the series played at The Oval on the tour of England. One of the most exciting matches of Test cricket, India won this match in a dramatic manner by 6 runs. In this high voltage match, England had a target of 374 runs and they were heading towards a one-sided victory on the fourth day and had scored 301 runs for 3 wickets.
From here the match looked like only a formality, but on the fourth day, the Indian bowlers dismissed century-scorers Joe Root, Harry Brook as well as Jacob Bethel. But by the end of the day’s play, England, which had scored 339 runs for 6 wickets, was just 35 runs away on the last day. On the last day, the English team collapsed in front of the amazing bowling of Mohammed Siraj and India achieved an unexpected victory by defeating the English team by 367 runs.
3. Australia vs South Africa WTC 2025 Final
The final of the ICC World Test Championship 2025 can be considered one of the most memorable matches. This final match was played between Australia and South Africa at the historic ground of Lord’s. In this match, the Kangaroo team was out for 212 runs in the first innings, but they restricted South Africa to only 138 runs and registered a significant lead of 74 runs. Australia was successful in scoring 207 runs in the second innings and set a target of 282 runs for the Proteas team. The path was not easy for South Africa in the fourth innings. Everyone was expecting Australia to win the Test Championship for the second consecutive time. South Africa lost the first wicket for 9 runs and the second wicket also fell at the score of 70.
After this Aiden Markram played the most unmatched innings of his career. Captain Temba Bavuma also got good support and together they made this match one-sided. These two batsmen added 147 runs for the third wicket, Bavuma played a very valuable inning of 66 runs, after this Markram stood firm and scored a brilliant century. When his team was just 6 runs away from the target, Markram was out after scoring 136 runs, but David Bedingham and Kyle Warren completed the rest as South Africa won by 5 wickets and won an ICC event since 1998.
4. India vs New Zealand, Champions Trophy 2025 Final
The Grand Final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was one of the most interesting matches. In the title battle played between India and New Zealand in Dubai, New Zealand, batting first, scored 251 runs for 7 wickets. In response to this, Team India made a tremendous start. The pair of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill added 105 runs, but after this the Kiwi team suddenly made a comeback and took 3 wickets on the Indian team’s score of 122 runs. Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (76 runs) returned to the pavilion, but from here Shreyas Iyer and Akshar Patel again revived the match and took it to 183 runs, Iyer remained on the personal score of 48 runs, but KL Rahul (34 runs not out) remained at one end and Akshar Patel played a useful inning of 29 runs and Hardik played 18 runs and India prevented New Zealand from performing miracles and achieved the target of 6 wickets in 49 overs and won the Champions Trophy title for the third time.
5. Australia vs England, Ashes Series 2025-26, Perth Test
Australia won the first Test of the Ashes series, considered to be the biggest battle of Test cricket, by 8 wickets, but it would not be wrong if this match is considered one of the memorable matches. In this test match played in Perth, the England team collapsed on the score of only 172 runs in the first innings. In reply, the English bowlers bowled out Australia for 132 runs and took a crucial lead of 40 runs. Ben Stokes’ team was also out for 164 runs in the second innings.
In such a situation, Australia had a target of 205 runs to win. Considering the havoc the bowlers wreaked in the first 3 innings, the target of more than 200 could have been considered difficult, but the Kangaroo team management took a big gamble and sent Travis Head to open and he scored a century in just 69 balls while batting in T20 style and made the match one-sided for Australia. With the help of Head’s stormy innings of 123 runs in 83 balls, Australia achieved a resounding victory on the second day by achieving the target in just 28.2 overs by losing 2 wickets.
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