Happy New Year 2025: Many miracles happened in Indian cricket, leaders changed, lottery started for players, know how the whole year was.

Cricket News Desk. Indian cricket fans watched the Indian team play many matches in 2024 and the team witnessed many ups and downs, including India winning the T20 World Cup. However, the team also faced a clean sweep in the Test series played against New Zealand at home. While the country of over 12.5 crore celebrates the World Cup win, roles are changing in the Indian team management and huge sums of money are being spent by franchises to acquire the services of cricketers. lots to do.

Won the title of T20 World Cup 2024
Accomplishing something is always a pleasure, but when that achievement comes after a long period of hard work, it becomes even more special. The Indian cricket team waited 10 years to lift the World Cup trophy after it performed brilliantly in the T20 World Cup 2024 held in the West Indies and the USA. The United States hosted the World Cup for the first time. This was a big deal for head coach Rahul Dravid, who had helped the team win the World Cup on the same soil where the Indian team was eliminated from the 2007 ODI World Cup under his captaincy. Rohit Sharma was the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament, while Arshdeep Singh and Jasprit Bumrah were the top wicket-takers for the Indian team.

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KKR won IPL 2024 and Pant became the most expensive player in the auction.
Kolkata Knight Riders won their third IPL title by winning the IPL 2024 title. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, the team won the tournament by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final. Sunil Narine scored the most runs for the team while Varun Chakraborty took the most wickets. A big auction took place before IPL 2025 and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) bought Rishabh Pant as the most expensive player in the auction for a price of Rs 27 crore.

Gautam Gambhir appointed head coach of India
Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir was appointed as the head coach after Rahul Dravid's tenure ended after the T20 World Cup 2024. Under Gambhir's supervision, KKR won the IPL title, which benefited the former Indian opener.

Retirement of star players
The careers of many star players ended this year. The trio of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja bid goodbye to T20 international cricket, while Ravichandran Ashwin retired from international cricket. David Warner, James Anderson, Tim Southee (Test), Neil Wagner, Dinesh Karthik, Heinrich Klaasen (Test) and Moeen Ali are some of the big names who have retired from the game.

Eliminated in the first test against New Zealand at home.
The Indian cricket team faced a clean sweep in the Test series against New Zealand on home soil. This was the first time in Test history that India suffered a clean sweep in a series of three or more matches, as the visitors defeated India 3–0.

Suryakumar Yadav becomes the new T20 captain
Rohit Sharma retired from T20 after leading the Indian team to its second T20 World Cup title, leaving the captaincy vacant. After this, Suryakumar Yadav was given the captaincy and under his leadership, India won 13 matches, lost three and one match was tied.

Players who will debut for India in 2024
Among the players who debuted for Team India, Rajat Patidar, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz Khan, Akash Deep, Devdutt Padikkal, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana made their debut in the red ball format. Ramandeep Singh, Mayank Yadav, Tushar Deshpande, Abhishek Sharma and Sai Sudarshan made their debut in T20 International cricket for the first time.

Rishabh Pant returns after the accident
Pant suffered a car accident last year, but showed determination and made a comeback to international cricket. He was a part of the Indian team that won the T20 World Cup and also received a huge sum of Rs 27 crore for IPL 2025 when the left-handed batsman was bought by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the auction.

Jai Shah becomes ICC President
Jay Shah has been appointed ICC President in 2024 and his tenure will start from December 1. With this it was decided that the 2025 Champions Trophy will be played in the hybrid model.