Australians snubbed for Champions Trophy best XI

No Australian has been selected for the ICC's team of the tournament despite Steve Smith's team making the semi-finals.

Five players from winners India were chosen, plus the 12th man, while beaten finalists New Zealand supplied four including captain Mitch Santner and Player of the Tournament Rachin Ravindra.

The other two players came from Afghanistan, who won one match, against England, and went out in the group stages.

Ravindra scored two centuries and topped the run-scoring charts with 263. He made 112 against Bangladesh and 108 in the semi-final against South Africa.

Shreyas Iyer was second highest scorer with 243 and he makes up an all-Indian upper middle-order with Virat Kohli (218 at 54.50 including an unbeaten century against Pakistan and 84 in the semi-final win over Australia) and KL Rahul, who finished with an average of 140.

Englishman Ben Duckett, who was the third highest run-scorer after Ravindra and Iyer with 227 at 75.66, was overlooked in favour of Afghanistan's Ibrahim Zadran, who hit 177 against England, the highest-ever Champions Trophy score, but made 17 and 22 in his other innings.

The other Afghan included was fast-bowling all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai who took seven wickets at 20 and scored 126 runs at 42.00.

Santer, Matt Henry, Mohammed Shami and Varun Chakravarthy, who all took nine or more wickets, make up the frontline bowling attack with further support from Wayne Phillips. He earned inclusion for fielding brilliance and solid contributions with bat and ball.

Individually Australia's candidates were hamstrung by bad weather which washed out their match with South Africa and limited their batters to less than 13 overs against Afghanistan.

Their top run-scorer was Josh Inglis, whose 131 runs included an unbeaten 120 against England, and Alex Carey who made 69 and 61 in his two knocks.

Heading Australia's bowling figures were Ben Dwarshuis (7-152) and Adam Zampa (6-172).

The selection panel consisted of commentators and former international players Ian Bishop, Simon Doull and Ausralia's Aaron Finch, Hindustan Times journalist Rasesh Mandani and ICC general manager events and corporate communications, Gaurav Saxena.

ICC Men's Champions Trophy 2025 Team of the Tournament

1. Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)
2. Ibrahim Zadran (Afghanistan)
3. Virat Kohli (India)
4. Shreyas Iyer (India)
5. KL Rahul (wk) (India)
6. Glenn Phillips (New Zealand)
7. Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan)
8. Mitchell Santner (capt) (New Zealand)
9. Mohammad Shami (India)
10. Matt Henry (New Zealand)
11. Varun Chakravarthy (India)
12. Axar Patel (India)