India have begun their campaign in the Champions Trophy 2025 campaign with a match against Bangladesh at the Dubai International Stadium on Friday. Rohit Sharma is the captain of the Men in Blue in the mega ICC tournament and would aim to lead them to their record third trophy win, and their second ICC trophy win less than a year after the T20 World Cup 2024 triumph. In their opening match, the Indian captain has now created history as he has become the first player from the country to achieve a massive feat.

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Rohit Sharma is currently playing his 3rd Champions Trophy after featuring in the 2013 and 2017 editions. He has also played in three ODI World Cups (2015, 2019, 2023) and all 9 editions of the T20 World Cup. Rohit thus becomes the first Indian player in history to play 15 ICC tournaments. Rohit overtakes Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni, all of whom have played 14 ICC tournaments.

Here are the Indian players to have played the most number of ICC tournaments:

15 times - Rohit Sharma

14 times - Virat Kohli

14 times - MS Dhoni

14 times - Yuvraj Singh

If we add Rohit Sharma's two appearances in the World Test Championship finals in 2021 and 2023, then he becomes the player with the most appearances in ICC events 17, overtaking VIrat Kohli who has 16 appearances.

In his first over against Bangladesh, Axar Patel was on a hat-trick after taking the wickets of Tazind Hasan and Mushfique. He would have got his hat-trick as well as Jaker Ali edged the ball straight to slips. However, captain Rohit Sharma dropped a sitter of a catch, thus denying Axar the chance to become the first Indian to take a hat-trick in the Champions Trophy.

Rohit was visibly disappointed at dropping this important catch. He banged the ground in frustration, and then folded his hands to apologize to the left-arm spinner.

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