India, Feb. 4 -- The 2025 Champions Trophy will be Rohit Sharma's third as a player but it will be his first as captain of the Indian team. India have a chance at pulling away from Australia and becoming the most successful team of all time in the history of the Champions Trophy if they win it this year. For Rohit, though, it is a chance to do something that even MS Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly - the two players who led India to the title in the past - couldn't do.

Rohit will be the sixth player to lead India in the tournament after Mohammed Azharuddin (1998), Sourav Ganguly (2000, 2002 and 2004), Rahul Dravid (2006), MS Dhoni (2009 and 2013) and Virat Kohli (2017). India won it in 2002 jointly with Sri Lanka, with the trophy having to be sh...