Players who have won the World Cup, World T20 and Champions Trophy

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Irrespective of the sport, winning a World Cup for your country is always special. Not every sportsman experiences the pleasure of winning a World Cup for their country.

In cricket, there is the ICC World Cup, which was initially 60 overs per innings before being reduced to 50 overs per side from the 1987 edition, the ICC World T20 and the ICC Champions Trophy, which is called the mini World Cup.

Winning these three prestigious tournaments is a great achievement for a cricketer. However, many have not managed to claim even one of these three tournaments in their career. While few players including the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma, Sanath Jayasuriya, Piyush Chawla, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Chris Gayle etc. have won two out of these three tournaments, only four players have managed to win all three.

Let us take a look at the four players who have won the ICC World Cup, World T20 and the ICC Champions Trophy in their career.

Virender Sehwag

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2002 ICC Champions Trophy: Sehwag ended the tournament as the leading run-scorer with 271 runs in five innings at an average of 91 and a strike-rate of over 120 which included a century and a fifty. Adding to this, he also picked up three wickets at an average of 38.

2007 World T20: Throughout the tournament, Sehwag did his job to perfection. He didn't care about the conditions or the bowlers, taking India off to flying starts in almost all the games he played. Unfortunately, he missed the final due to an injury.

2011 World Cup: During the 2011 World Cup, Sehwag set a trend by hitting the first ball of the Indian innings in almost all the matches to the boundary. He gave his side a great start in all the matches barring the finals and scored 380 runs at an average of 47.5 and strike-rate of 122 in the tournament.

Yuvraj Singh

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2002 ICC Champions Trophy: Yuvraj hardly got a chance to bat in the tournament, thanks to the form of the Indian top-order. He managed to score 65 runs in the two innings he batted, including a fifty. He made it up with his fielding as he was brilliant throughout the tournament. His catches to dismiss Graeme Smith and Jonty Rhodes in the semi-final against South Africa are two of the best catches taken by an Indian. Those dismissals gave the Indian team a small opening when the Proteas were cruising to an easy win.

2007 World T20: Yuvraj played just two good innings but those ensured India managed to reach the final. His 16-ball 58 against England which included six sixes in an over bowled by Stuart Broad kept India's hopes alive and in the semi-finals against the world champions Australia, he scored 70 off 30 balls. He may have scored just 148 runs in five innings but the runs he scored were crucial.

2011 World Cup: The 2011 World Cup belonged to Yuvraj Singh as the all-rounder starred with both bat and ball and was the main reason why India won the tournament. With the bat, he scored 362 runs in eight innings with the help of four fifties and one century at an average of 90.5 and strike-rate of 87. With the ball, the slow left-armer took 15 wickets at an average of 25 at an economy of 5. This won him the Player of the Tournament award.

Harbhajan Singh

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2002 ICC Champions Trophy: Harbhajan played his part in the tournament by taking six wickets in five matches at an average of 30 and an economy of 3.7. He made sure that the opposition batsmen struggled to score runs in the middle overs.

2007 World T20: With RP Singh and Irfan Pathan doing a majority of the damage with the ball, Harbhajan was needed just to play second fiddle and he did exactly that throughout the tournament. Being a spinner, he was taken to the cleaners on a few occasions but he kept the scoring rate down on a consistent basis. He took seven wickets in six matches at an average of 26 and an economy of 7.91, something that skyrocketed after Misbah-ul-Haq smashed him to all parts of the ground in the final.

2011 World Cup: Once again, Harbhajan did the job for his team in an ICC event as he picked up nine wickets in as many matches at an average of 43 and economy of 4.48, which was the best by an Indian bowler in the tournament. Even though he was not among the wickets too often, Harbhajan kept things tight in the middle overs, resulting in opposition batsmen attacking Yuvraj Singh and giving away their wickets.

MS Dhoni

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2013 ICC Champions Trophy: In the five matches India played, Dhoni got to bat only twice and registered scores of 27 and 0. The top-order performed so well that the services of the skipper were not needed for the most part. As a captain, Dhoni did his job to perfection and made sure that India tasted success in the Champions Trophy.

2007 World T20: This was the first time MS Dhoni captained India and he repaid the faith the selectors had in him by leading his side to glory. He was India's second highest run scorer with 154 runs in six innings at an average of 31 and a strike-rate of 130. Adding to his contribution with the bat, he was also excellent behind the stumps and with his captaincy. His decision to give the last over of the tournament to Joginder Sharma when Harbhajan Singh had an over left proved to be a masterstroke as India became the inaugural World T20 champions.

2011 World Cup: MS Dhoni had a miserable outing in the first eight matches as he scored just 150 runs in seven innings at an average of 30. The Indian skipper stepped up when it mattered the most and took the responsibility in the final by coming out to bat ahead of Yuvraj Singh, scoring a World Cup-winning 91* to take the team home. Throughout the tournament, he was brilliant with his wicketkeeping and captaincy.

Dhoni is the only player to win all the three tournaments as a captain.

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Edited by Arvind Sriram