In Match 5 of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, India essentially dominated Pakistan. Even though this specific match took place in Dubai, the defeat has now seriously hurt Pakistan’s chances of advancing to the semifinals of a tournament in which they are the assigned hosts.
Pakistan decided to bat first, but it didn’t really work out because they didn’t get many runs and lost two wickets in the powerplay. With a partnership of 104, Saud Shakeel (62 off 76) and Mohammad Rizwan attempted to salvage the Pakistani innings, but India’s aggressive bowling and fielding.
Spearheaded by Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav, sent Pakistan reeling from 151/2 to 241 all-out.
It appeared at the halfway point that India wouldn’t have any trouble reaching the amount, and it turned out to be correct. The aggressive path was taken by Rohit Sharma, who fell early. While Kohli skillfully navigated his way through the middle overs and set up 114 with Shreyas Iyer (56 off 67), Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli (100* off 111) put up 69 for the second wicket.
By the time Iyer departed, the most tense thing about the chase was whether Kohli would get to his hundred, which he did. With the game-winning four-ball during some drama that made it seem more and more likely that he would be stuck in the 1990s, Kohli reached his century. The match essentially became Kohli’s Day Out as he reached his hundred, breaking several milestones that will be discussed in this article.
Here are the most important numbers from the game:
12 – India have now lost the toss in 12 ODIs in a row – the longest such sequence for any team ever in this format.
65 – The number of innings in which Babar Azam has now not scored a hundred in international cricket. It is the longest ongoing such sequence for any batter in the world.
1 – Kohli’s two catches from today’s game took his catches tally as a fielder in ODIs to 158 – the highest by an Indian and the third highest in the world in this format.
1 – Rohit Sharma became the sixth player and the third Indian to score 9000 runs as an opener in ODIs. By the number of innings taken to the milestone, he became the fastest getting there in 181 innings.
1 – Virat Kohli became the fastest player to score 14,000 runs in ODIs getting there in 287 innings. The other two players to get to the milestone, Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara, took 350 and 378 innings respectively.
3 – Virat Kohli notched up his sixth century in ICC ODI tournaments (World Cups and Champions Trophies) – the joint third most. Rohit Sharma leads the chart with eight, hust ahead of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly’s seven each while Shikhar Dhawan, Ricky Ponting, David Warner and Kumar Sangakkara have as many as Kohli.
1 – Virat Kohli’s batting average of 66.10 in ICC ODI tournaments is the highest among all batters to have a minimum of 1000 runs in the big events. The next best is 65.15 by Shikhar Dhawan
1 – Virat Kohli’s batting average of 93 in the Champions trophy is the highest of all batters to have scored a minimum of 300 runs in the tournament.
3 – Virat Kohli is now Indi’s third highest ru-getter in the Champions Trophy with 651. Only Shikhar Dhawan and Sourav Gangly have more.
India
