ICC Champions Trophy 2025 gets underway from February 19. Pakistan open their campaign against New Zealand in Karachi. India then start their campaign the next day with all their matches scheduled to be played at Dubai. The BCCI had refused to send its team across the border citing security concerns, which led the tournament be played in a hybrid model. India have won the tournament twice before, in 2000 and 2013. Here we take a look at four famous comebacks cricket fans witnessed at the elite ICC tournament. India v South Africa, 2002: South Africa needed 70 runs at less than a run a ball to win the semi-final, with Herschelle Gibbs having rampaged his way to 116 off 119 balls. West Indies v England, 2004: Marcus Trescothick’s 104 had set West Indies 218, they slumped to 80 for 5, with Brian Lara, Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan among those to fall. England v India, 2013: Virat Kohli (43 off 34 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (33 not out off 25) that India even had a half-decent total to defend.
