The year 2025 was memorable in terms of cricket, this is the year when Royal Challengers Bangalore and Virat Kohli’s dream of winning the IPL trophy was fulfilled. This year, Team India won the Champions Trophy title under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma. Under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, the Indian team became the Asia Cup champion by defeating Pakistan, in which tournament the ‘No Handshake’ controversy was much talked about. Know the 5 big controversies of Indian cricket in the year 2025.
‘No handshake’ with Pakistan
In protest against the Pahalgam attack, Team India decided not to shake hands with Pakistani players in the Asia Cup. Suryakumar Yadav also did the same during the toss, he did not shake hands with Salman Ali Aga. After this, when both the teams faced each other in Super-4, a war of words was also seen between the players of both the teams. The same happened in the final also, in which Team India won the title by defeating Pakistan.
Mohsin Naqvi ran away with Asia Cup trophy
In the year 2025, something was also seen which probably never happened before. The team that won the title was not even given a trophy. The Indian captain did not want Mohsin Naqvi to give him the trophy because he talks about war against India. Meanwhile, Mohsin Naqvi left the field with the trophy, the champion team India was not given the trophy. BCCI also raised this issue in the ICC meeting, there was a lot of debate on it.
Stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium
Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers Bangalore won their first IPL title in the year 2025, to celebrate which a celebratory program was organized at M Chinnaswamy Stadium the very next day. Due to lack of preparations, an accident occurred outside the stadium, 11 people died due to a stampede. This is a sad incident in the history of Indian cricket.
Former players of India did not play the match with Pakistan
In the World Championship of Legends 2025, Indian players had refused to play the match with Pakistani players, after which the match had to be cancelled. All the players including Shikhar Dhawan were angry about the Pahalgam attack. India vs Pakistan was decided in the semi-finals of this tournament, in this too the Indian players refused to play, after which Pakistan reached the finals. Although South Africa defeated Pakistan in the final.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma suddenly tested positive retirement
The Test series against Australia was not good for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma. The players were told that if they want to play further, they will have to play and perform in domestic also, after which Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were seen playing in Ranji Trophy after years. With their move, it was believed that both would continue playing in Tests, but suddenly both of them surprised everyone by retiring from Test cricket within a week. Then discussions started about the dispute between these veterans, head coach and BCCI.
