The spotlight of the 12 months for India was the nation’s maiden ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup title. After being the finalist twice, Indian girls, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, lastly lifted the coveted silverware after a win over South Africa within the remaining.
Indian girls additionally made historical past by successful the inaugural T20 World Cup for the blind.
In males’s cricket, India, underneath the management of Rohit Sharma, lifted the Champions Trophy. With Suryakumar Yadav on the helm, India secured the Asia Cup T20 event defeating Pakistan within the remaining. Workforce India additionally squared the collection in England 2-2 underneath Shubman Gill however bit the mud in opposition to South Africa at residence, shedding the collection 0-2.
In July, Divya Deshmukh received the Girls’s Chess World Cup in Georgia. The then 19-year-old got here by way of six gruelling rounds, after which beat the seasoned Koneru Humpy within the remaining to script considered one of Indian chess’ finest tales.
Within the World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi in September-October, India’s 73-member sturdy contingent received 22 medals (six gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze), which was greater than the 17 from Kobe, Japan, in 2024.
In badminton, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bagged a males’s doubles bronze within the World Championships, which continued India’s streak of getting bagged a medal at each Worlds since 2011
On the world degree, Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner met in three straight Grand Slam event finals, with Alcaraz successful the French Open and the US Open, and Sinner successful Wimbledon.
In Observe & Discipline, Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke the pole vault world document for an astonishing 14th time, clearing 6.30m on the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
In System One, Lando Norris, his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen had been locked in a three-way battle going into the final race in Abu Dhabi. Norris, finally, received his first System One title by ending on the rostrum within the Center-East.
Right here we take a look at the among the main moments
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The Indian girls’s cricket staff made historical past by successful their first Cricket World Cup defeating South Africa within the remaining at Navi Mumbai on November 2, 2025. They seven-time champion Australians within the semifinals with an impressive century from Jemimah Rodriguez.
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The Indian girls additionally made historical past by lifting the inaugural Girls’s T20 World Cup for the Blind in Sri Lanka on November 24, 2025.
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The Indian males’s cricket staff defeated New Zealand within the finals in Dubai on March 9, 2025 to raise their third Champions Trophy.
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Lionel Messi touched down in India for a extremely anticipated three-day GOAT Tour from December 13, 2025. The soccer legend travelled to 4 cities — Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi — making it probably the most high-profile sporting visits the nation has ever witnessed.
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In Kolkata, violence erupted at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on December 13, 2025 after Messi made a short public look there. 1000’s of spectators, not solely from Kolkata but in addition from completely different components of the nation, had arrived on the stadium to catch a glimpse of their favorite soccer star. Messi’s convoy entered the stadium at precisely 11:30 a.m. He was accompanied by footballers Luis Suarez and Rodrigo De Paul. The footballers seemed completely happy to witness the frenzy of soccer followers gathered on the stadium.
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In Hyderabad, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy scored what many in political circles imagine an ideal political purpose, as world soccer icon Lionel Messi watched on, alongside his boss and Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, the person who as soon as positioned his full political religion in Revanth. In Mumbai, India’s cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar walked throughout the Wankhede Stadium outfield in the direction of Argentina’s soccer celebrity Lionel Messi on December 14, 2025 night that can be etched in Mumbai’s sporting folklore. Tendulkar offered Messi with the long-lasting 2011 World Cup jersey, bearing his surname and the No. 10 on the again.
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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bagged the boys’s doubles bronze within the World Championships, persevering with India’s streak of getting bagged a medal at each Worlds since 2011.
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Sweden’s Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke the pole vault world document for the 14th time on September 15, 2025, clearing 6.30m to seize his third world championship.
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Workforce India shone effectively within the white-ball cricket by lifting the Asia Cup T20 event in Dubai. Beneath the management of Suryakumar Yadav, India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan within the remaining in Dubai on September 28, 2025. The presentation ceremony confronted some controversies with the Indian cricket staff refusing to simply accept the trophy from ACC Chairman Mohsin Naqvi and the BCCI has written to ICC on the difficulty.
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The Indian males’s hockey staff beat South Korea 4-1 within the remaining to raise the Asia Cup trophy and qualify for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup, in Bihar on September 7, 2025. India ended an eight 12 months wait to be topped the continental champion, successful 4-1 in opposition to defending champion Korea within the remaining of the Asia Cup and assuring itself of a spot on the 2026 World Cup.
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Indian Take a look at captain Shubman Gill’s management expertise had been on show in his debut collection in opposition to England. England received the primary Take a look at by 5 wickets, India bounced again within the second by defeating the hosts by 336 runs. England as soon as once more went into the lead by defeating India by 22 runs within the third Take a look at. With the fourth Take a look at drawn, India bounced again on the final day of the ultimate Take a look at with some scintillating bowling stuff from Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna and received by 6 runs.
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Divya Deshmukh, India’s newest Grandmaster, becam solely the fourth Indian lady to win the World Cup, that the majority coveted of titles in chess. The 19-year-old from Nagpur recorded the best second of her younger profession when she beat fellow-Indian Koneru Humpy within the tiebreakers of the World Cup remaining at Batumi, Georgia, on July 28, 2025. Each video games within the classical format had been drawn, resulting in the shootout in pace chess.
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With their tails up after squaring the collection in England, Workforce India didn’t show their prowess within the spin-friendly wickets in India. World Take a look at Champions South Africa proved why they’re the champion facet. The primary Take a look at ended inside three days. India didn’t get previous 123 runs within the fourth innings. India had been bundled out for 93. Captain Gill acquired injured and was dominated out of the Take a look at collection. Far more embarrassment was in retailer for Workforce India as they misplaced the second Take a look at by an enormous margin of 408 runs. With this loss, India have misplaced 5 Take a look at matches in a row (three in opposition to New Zealand and two in opposition to South Africa).
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Gold medallist Shailesh Kumar and bronze medallist Varun Singh Bhati pose for {photograph} throughout felicitation ceremony for Males’s Excessive Soar T63 occasion throughout the World Para Athletics Championships 2025, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi on September 27, 2025.
India received 4 medals on October 5, 2025 to wrap up its most profitable outing ever on the World Para Athletics Championships, ending with 22 medals on a dramatic remaining day that noticed medals being upgraded and a dash run once more due to technical faults.
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India secured the bronze medal on the FIH Males’s Junior Hockey World Cup 2025 by orchestrating a sensational come-from-behind 4-2 victory over Argentina on the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium in Chennai on December 11, 2025.
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South Africa had been on a excessive coming into the ODI collection. Nevertheless it was India, led by Okay.L. Rahul, who dominated the white-ball cricket with some dominating performances from Virat Kohli (two centuries) and Rohit Sharma. India received the primary ODI by 17 runs however South Africa bounced again to win the second by chasing an enormous goal of 359. Within the third, India convincingly defeated South Africa with a superb century from Yashasvi Jaiswal and sensible half-centuries from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Kohli went previous maestro Sachin Tendulkar by scoring his 53rd century within the ODIs and in addition clinched the man-of-the-series award.
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A dominant Australia collected the final 4 wickets they wanted on December 21, 2025 to win the third Take a look at and retain the Ashes in simply 11 days of cricket, crushing the goals of an England facet who lastly confirmed some battle. The vacationers wanted a win to maintain the five-match collection alive after being crushed by eight wickets at Perth and Brisbane, with two extra Exams nonetheless to play at Melbourne and Sydney.
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Grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu received the FIDE Girls’s Grand Swiss 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 15, 2025. Vaishali made it to the ladies’s Candidates event after a hard-fought draw in opposition to former world champion Zhongyi Tan of China.
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On January 26, 2025, Jannik Sinner claimed his second consecutive Australian Open championship, by no means dealing with a single break level and utilizing his full recreation to outplay and frustrate Alexander Zverev for a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory within the remaining. Sinner, a 23-year-old Italian, is the youngest man to depart Melbourne Park with the trophy two years in a row since Jim Courier in 1992-93. Sinner rose to No. 1 final June, remaining there for each week since, and the hole between him and No. 2-ranked Zverev was pronounced as could be in Rod Laver Enviornment. This was the primary Australian Open remaining between the boys at No. 1 and No. 2 since 2019, when No. 1 Novak Djokovic defeated No. 2 Rafael Nadal — additionally in straight units.
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Defending champion Neeraj Chopra endured a nightmarish outing on the World Championships’ males’s javelin throw finals to finish a disappointing eighth, outperformed by debutant compatriot Sachin Yadav who logged a private finest efficiency to complete a creditable fourth. On Could 17, 2025, Neeraj lastly breached the elusive 90m frontier with a 90.23m throw however the trailblazing Indian needed to accept a second place behind Germany’s Julian Weber in a dramatic contest on the Doha leg of the celebrated Diamond League Assembly collection.
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On September 7, 2025, Carlos Alcaraz ended the reign of Jannik Sinner with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win to say the U.S. Open title and tighten his grip on the era-defining rivalry between the torch-bearers of the boys’s recreation. In an ideal echo of the triumph that first propelled him to the primary spot in 2022, Alcaraz’s second New York title lifted him again to the highest of the world rankings because the 22-year-old Spaniard displaced Sinner and took his Grand Slam trophy haul to 6. On September 6, 2025, Aryna Sabalenka retained her U.S. Open crown with a 6-3, 7-6(3) win over American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova within the U.S. Open girls’s remaining, underlining her declare as the fashionable queen of the hardcourt. The Belarusian has not missed a hardcourt main remaining since 2022 and her newest trophy brings her Grand Slam haul to 4, as she turned the primary lady to win back-to-back U.S. Opens since Serena Williams claimed three straight from 2012 to 2014.
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Following the closest end to a title battle in 15 years, McLaren’s Lando Norris is the brand new World Champion after taking the third place he wanted within the Abu Dhabi season finale. It ended a rare marketing campaign, not just for Norris but in addition his arch rivals Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri.
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Inter Miami secured their first MLS Cup crown on December 6, 2025, beating the Vancouver Whitecaps 3–1 at Chase Stadium as Rodrigo De Paul and Tadeo Allende struck late from a pair of Lionel Messi assists. Regardless of Thomas Mueller driving a Vancouver facet that managed lengthy stretches and created the higher probabilities, the ultimate in the end swung on the Argentine’s affect, as he secured his first MLS league title and capped his most interesting season on American soil.
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Cole Palmer scored twice and fed João Pedro for a purpose as Chelsea overwhelmed Paris Saint-Germain within the first half and beat the European champions 3-0 on July 14, 2025 within the remaining of the primary expanded Membership World Cup. Palmer had nearly similar left-footed targets from simply contained in the penalty space within the twenty second and thirtieth minutes, then despatched a by way of cross that enabled João Pedro to chip goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma within the 43d for his third purpose in two begins with the Blues.
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A 3-0 win in opposition to the Netherlands in Morocco on November 8, 2025 noticed the North Koreans raise a second successive Girls’s U-17 World Cup, and fourth in all, following their victory 12 months in the past.
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On January 25, 2025, Madison Keys received her first-ever Grand Slam title as she upset two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka within the Australian Open remaining in Melbourne. Keys was thought of a future star earlier than she was a teen, and this was her second probability to play for a significant title: The primary led to a lopsided loss on the 2017 U.S. Open, an expertise that taught her she would wish to have the ability to play by way of nerves. It was solely after accepting she would possibly by no means seize a Slam title, and could be wonderful with that — a change that got here after years of remedy — that Keys truly acquired there.
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On June 9, 2025, unhealthy begins in Grand Slam finals are nothing new for Carlos Alcaraz, and every time it’s occurred he has received the event anyway. However not in such dramatic fashion on the French Open remaining, when the Spaniard rallied from two units down and saved three match factors to beat Jannik Sinner 4-6, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (10-2) for his fifth main title in as many finals. It was his second straight French Open title with a comeback, after trailing 2-1 in units to Alexander Zverev in final 12 months’s remaining, and a 3rd main title from behind, following his five-set win in opposition to Novak Djokovic within the 2023 Wimbledon remaining.
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On June 8, 2025, Coco Gauff received the French Open for the primary time by defeating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 within the remaining. The second-ranked Gauff got here out on high of a contest that was filled with rigidity and momentum swings to say her second main trophy after the 2023 U.S. Open, the place she additionally got here from a set all the way down to beat Sabalenka within the remaining. Gauff raised the winners’ trophy aloft, then kissed it a number of occasions. She held her hand over her coronary heart when the U.S. nationwide anthem performed.
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On July 14, 2025, Jannik Sinner’s emotionally restrained, methodical and exact tennis earned its biggest reward but as he dethroned two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to win his first Wimbledon and fourth Main title. For the World No. 1, it was candy revenge for the Roland-Garros defeat, the place Alcaraz had crushed him from three championship-points down within the fourth set. The 23-year-old is now the primary Italian to win the singles trophy at SW19. A day earlier than, American Amanda Anisimova learnt it the arduous method as Iga Swiatek, in a exceptional show of big-match temperament and tactical nous, thrashed her 6-0, 6-0 to win a maiden Wimbledon girls’s singles title. It was the Pole’s sixth Main and first trophy of any sort since French Open 2024.