{"id":86886,"date":"2025-03-09T23:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=86886"},"modified":"2025-03-09T23:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T18:23:26","slug":"champions-again-india-clinches-champions-trophy-in-thrilling-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/champions-again-india-clinches-champions-trophy-in-thrilling-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Again! India Clinches Champions Trophy in Thrilling Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PM Modi Hails Team India&#8217;s Victory, Calls It an \u2018Exceptional Game\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Mar 09: India lifted the Champions Trophy for the third time, defeating New Zealand in a thrilling final.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a target of 252 runs, India reached 254\/6 in 49 overs, with KL Rahul (34) and Ravindra Jadeja (9) guiding the team to victory. Skipper Rohit Sharma played a crucial knock of 76 runs, while Shreyas Iyer contributed 48 runs to stabilize the chase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, New Zealand set a total of 251\/7 in 50 overs, but India\u2019s disciplined bowling restricted them from putting up a bigger score.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This marks India\u2019s third Champions Trophy title, adding another major ICC trophy to their collection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, On team India win, PM Modi In a post on X wrote, An exceptional game and an exceptional result!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Proud of our cricket team for bringing home the ICC Champions Trophy. They\u2019ve played wonderfully through the tournament. Congratulations to our team for the splendid all around display. (JKNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Modi Hails Team India&rsquo;s Victory, Calls It an &lsquo;Exceptional Game&rsquo; &nbsp; Srinagar, Mar 09: India lifted the Champions Trophy for the third time, defeating New Zealand in a thrilling final. &nbsp; Chasing a target of 252 runs, India reached 254\/6 in 49 overs, with KL Rahul (34) and Ravindra Jadeja (9) guiding the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86888,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86886\/revisions\/86888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}