India, Dec. 28 -- India's 2025 in cricket didn't feel like a year stitched together by isolated highlights. Itlike a coherent narrative, teams learning how to live inside pressure, how to travel without losing their identity, and how to keep winning even when the script stopped being friendly.

More than anything, it was a year that underlined a truth Indian cricket has been chasing for a while: trophies are wonderful, but trophy culture is transformational. And 2025 delivered that culture across levels - senior, youth, men, women - with steadiness that suggested process, not accident.

The senior triumphs were the fireworks; this was the infrastructure. India's U19 Women defending their world title by beating South Africa by nine wickets...