Top Cricketing Moments (Good/Bad) of the year 2025

[vvvslaxman]

 

We have had a lot of "stupid shots" in this year..   Few in Ashes. Few in BGT & ATT

 

Brook

Jamie Smith

Pant

Jaiswal

Gill

[vvvslaxman]

About great catches

 

Glen philips catch of  Subhman GIll in CT final

Couple of Marnu's catches

Smith Catch

 

 

Run outs

 

Inglis running out Stokes with one stump to aim at

[Sean Bradley]

Bad year for Indian Test cricket, a very tragic year for India as a country, Pahalgam, Stampedes, War, Train incidents, Plane Crash, Tarrifs, Global revolt against Indians, Weakening of currency, hopefully 2026 will bring a massive shift and 2025 would go down as an year of Bad Karma debt repayments. 

[jf1gp_1]

England test series. We are unlikely to see something similar anytime soon. 

[vvvslaxman]

2 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

England test series. We are unlikely to see something similar anytime soon. 

 

Good point 25 days with hardly any interruption went down to the wire on last day of the series. Just an amazing series

[Tillu]

The best moment of 2025 for me was the Women's team winning the World Cup for the first time. It's a big monkey off the back moment and hope it leads to more tournament wins in the future.

[vvvslaxman]

Innings of the year in ALl formats , womens seperate. What would be your choices?

 

 

Test - Men   Travis head  123 Perth

ODI - Men    Ibrahim Zadran 177 in CT against England/ Jos Inglis 120 against England CT

T20 - Men  Abhishek 135  vs England/ Brevis 125  vs Australia.

 

ODI - Women one and only Jemima

 

These are from my memory. I have not followed every innings

 

Edited December 22, 2025 by vvvslaxman

[Lord]

For India

 

Top : Winning women WC

 

Worst : Losing 2-0 to SA at home

[vvvslaxman]

My favorite image of the year

 

[Talkie]

14 year old scoring a century, making Rahul Dravid jump from his wheelchair. That was fun to watch, and memorable. 

 

Who knows it maybe the biggest watershed moment in Indian cricket since long. 

Edited December 23, 2025 by Talkie

[Gollum]

Moment: Harmanpreet's catch to win us the trophy or Amanjot's winning boundary in the SF. Tie. 

 

Best 3-4 hours was our run chase against Aussie women in the SF. In fact that was the best passage of cricket from any Indian team since Gabba final session. 

[The Realist]

Saddest moments of 2025

 

The premature retirement of PIyush "chubby cheeks" Chawla.

 

        

 

Generational talent, passed the eye test and a winner @maniac @Global.Baba @vvvslaxman

 

Treated disgracefully by national selectors/management hence forced into early retirement at 36 while other fatties continue to get selected. 

 

 

Amit "pionnering hair treatment" Mishra

 

 

Another talent treated shabbily by management/selectors as garbage like Chahal was endlessly recycled instead. @velu Could bat too and nearly made a century in Eng. 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2025 by The Realist

[goose]

Atkinson b. Siraj

[maniac]

69* (53) - this might be the most imprtant innings of this year. Singlehandedly reduced noise and air pollution

[Lord]

13 hours ago, Talkie said:

14 year old scoring a century, making Rahul Dravid jump from his wheelchair. That was fun to watch, and memorable. 

 

Who knows it maybe the biggest watershed moment in Indian cricket since long. 

Hes already getting abused in the other thread lol. Our fans are one of a kind 

[Lord]

4 hours ago, maniac said:

69* (53) - this might be the most imprtant innings of this year. Singlehandedly reduced noise and air pollution

Tilak Verma?

[Gollum]

Another happy moment was Chakri dismissing Head first ball in CT SF. More than joy, it was relief, because Head was in the mood to deliver another phainta to us. Losing to that C-grade Aussie team in a KO would have been very humiliating. 

 

Even Shreyas Iyer's direct hit run out of Carey in their death overs (one of the most iconic fielding efforts by an Indian in a big game), easily reduced their final total by 20 odd runs, which would have been decisive. That entire game, we were always one step away from losing, credit to all the boys who came clutch. Had Aussies won that they would have crushed Kiwis in the final, no matter how depleted they were....and that would have made a mockery of the sport because they took that event so lightly. 

 

No matter what format, eliminating any Aussie side in an ICC KO should always be rated highly, even as the greatest achievement of that year/decade/century. And we did it to them twice in 2025, one each by our men and women....of course what women did was otherworldly and has no equal in men's cricket. 

Edited December 24, 2025 by Gollum

[Talkie]

11 hours ago, Lord said:

Hes already getting abused in the other thread lol. Our fans are one of a kind 

 

It's funny to call him a blind slogger or tulla. Do they realize hitting sixes against international bowlers at 14 isn't normal? Hack or whatever

[G_B_]

Loi cricket has been very strong for india

 

Test cricket not so much.

 

Asia cup, champions trophy and women wc.

 

 

[Rightarmfast]

The best moment... Sorry! The Super best moment in cricket in 2025 did not happen in International Test matches or ODI's or International T20's. It happened in Indian domestic matches.

And that was ASHOK hitting 150k's in domestic matches. 2nd best thing was Sakib bowling express. Although don't know how fast.

Kindly prove me wrong