2025 is coming to a close. It is time for our year-end review of all major Indian sports. So let’s hit it…

Cricket

Women’s Cricket: The highlight of Indian Women’s Cricket was winning the 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup.

In addition to this, India also won the U-19 Women’s T20World Cup.

Men’s Cricket:

Test Cricket: The Indian Men’s team had one of the worst years in Test Cricket – Lost Border Gavaskar Trophy 3-1 in Australia, failed to qualify for World Test Championship final, lost 0-2 at home to South Africa. The only moment worth remembering was the 2-2 drawn series in England.

ODI Cricket: India won the 2025 ODI Champions Trophy.

T20 Cricket: India won the 2025 T20 Asia Cup.

Rating: 8/10

Hockey

Men’s Hockey: India won the 2025 Men’s Asia Cup & secured their qualification for next year’s World Cup. There was nothing to write about India’s FIH Pro League performance. They finished 8th and managed to avoid relegation by 1 place.

Women’s Hockey: India Women’s Hockey team got relegated from FIH Pro League. And now they are undergoing a coach transition. Not a good 2025 for this team.

Rating: 5/10

Football

Men’s Football: We touched a new low almost every month. 2025 will be remembered as a very dark year for Indian Men’s football.

Women’s Football: On the other hand, there were positive sparks in Women’s football. We qualified for the 2026 Asia Cup by winning the qualification tournament.

Rating: 4/10 (All 4 points for Women’s football)

Archery

Indian Archery had a good year. We won 15 medals across the 4 World Cups – 3 Gold, 4 Silver & 8 Bronze. India finished 4th in the 2025 World Cup medal tally.

At the 2025 World Championships, India won 1 Gold & 1 Silver.

Men’s Compound Team: Gold
Mixed Compound Team: Silver

At the 2025 Asian Archery Championships, India won 10 medals and topped the medal tally: 6 Gold, 3 Silver & 1 Bronze

Rating: 7/10

Tennis

Men’s Tennis: Nothing much to speak about Men’s Tennis in Singles. No Indian is in the top 200 ranking. Not a single title has been won by an Indian player in singles on the Challenger tour. In Doubles, Rohan Bopanna retired. In Doubles, Yuki Bhambri won Dubai Championships and Rithvik Bollipalli won Chile Open on the ATP Tour.

In Davis Cup, India defeated Switzerland to qualify for the Qualifier stage of the 2026 Davis Cup.

Women’s Tennis: A couple of young players like Maaya & Shrivalli made news in a couple of tournaments, but nothing to show for at the World level.

In the Billie Jean King Cup, India reached the play-offs stage after having qualified from Asia/Oceania Group.

Rating: 5/10

Wrestling

At the 2025 World Wrestling Championships, Antim won Bronze in Women’s 53 kg. That was the only medal India won.

At the 2025 Asian Championships, India won 10 medals – 1 Gold, 3 Silver and 6 Bronze.

The year ended on a positive note for Indian wrestling fans with Vinesh Phogat announcing her return to the mat from the 2026 season.

Rating: 6/10

Boxing

At the newly launched World Boxing Cup series, India won 40 medals across 3 World Cups – 13 Gold, 12 Silver and 15 Bronze.

World Boxing Championships 2025: India won 4 medals – 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze.

Rating: 8.5/10

Shooting

India has a pretty good year in Shooting. Followed up the Paris Olympics performance with a consistent year – won 28 medals at ISSF World Cups – 11 Gold, 9 Silver and 8 Bronze. India finished 2nd in the overall medal tally behind China.

India also had a good run at the 2025 World Shooting Championships with 13 medals – 3 Gold, 6 Silver & 4 Bronze.

Suruchi Inder Singh in Women’s pistol shooting was the find of the year. She won multiple Gold medals across competitions.

Rating: 9/10

Badminton

On the BWF World Tour, Indian players won 3 titles:

Australian Open (BWF 500): Lakshya Sen
US Open (BWF 300): Ayush Shetty
Syed Modi International (BWF 300): Tressa/Gayatri

The highlight of 2025 was Satwik/Chirag winning Bronze at World Championships in Men’s Doubles.

Rating: 6/10

Table Tennis

On the World Table Tennis Tour, Indian players won only 2 trophies:

Tunis Contender: Diya & Manush – Mixed Doubles
Lagos Contender: Sathiyan & Akash – Men’s Doubles

Indian players failed to win a medal even at the Asian Table Tennis Championships.

2025 Year-end ranks:
Men’s Singles: Manav (35)
Women’s Singles: Sreeja (39), Manika (52)
Men’s Doubles: Manav/Manush (6)
Women’s Doubles: Diya/Yashaswini (32)
Mixed Doubles: Diya/Manush (9)

Men’s Team Rank: 12
Women’s Team Rank: 11

Rating: 5/10

Athletics

If we are talking about Indian athletics, then who better to start than Neeraj Chopra. He finally conquered the 90m mark at the Doha Diamond League meet. In 2025, he won 5 events:

Paris Diamond League, Potchefstroom Invitational, Janusz Kusociński Memorial, Golden Spike Ostrava and Neeraj Chopra Classic.

At the Asian Athletics Championships 2025, India won 24 medals – 8 Gold, 10 Silver and 6 Bronze.

Given his track record, Neeraj not winning a medal at 2025 World Athletics Championships was the surprise result of the year.

Rating: 5/10

Weightlifting

At the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships, Mirabai Chanu won Silver in the Women’s 48 kg category. No other highlight so to speak in Indian Weightlifting.

Rating: 4/10

And that is 2025 in the books. Wishing all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Looking forward to 2026!