India Crosses the Winning line, against the arch rivals Pakistan on Sunday 23rd February 2025 in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025 by 6 wickets. Pakistan on winning the Toss Choose to Bat first, with Saud Shakeel’s 62(76), Rizwan’s 46(77) and Khushdil Shah’s 38(39) sets an target of 242 for India.
India chases the target, winning the match by 6 wickets courtesy to Virat Kohli’s Unbeaten Century, Shreyas Iyer’s Fifty and Shubman gill’ s Important Cameo.
Toss and Venue
The India vs Pakistan Champion Trophy’s 2025 League match was taking place at Dubai International Stadium, Dubai.
Pakistan won the toss and Elected to Bat to First,
India Playing XI
Rohit Sharma (C)
Shubman Gill
Virat Kohli
Shreyas Iyer
KL Rahul (Wk)
Hardik Pandya
Axar Patel
Ravindra Jadeja
Harshit Rana
Mohammed Shami
Kuldeep Yadav
Pakistan Playing XI
Imam-ul-Haq
Babar Azam
Saud Shakeel
Mohammad Rizwan (C) (Wk)
Salman Ali Agha
Tayyab Tahir
Khushdil Shah
Shaheen Afridi
Naseem Shah
Haris Rauf
Abrar Ahmed
First Innings
The Pakistan Started Batting with Imam-ul-Haq and Babar Azam, both started scoring runs at a impressive speed adding 41 runs for the first wicket, but Babar looses his wicket for Hardik Panyda after scoring 23(25) . Very early later Imam-ul-Haq throws his wicket by run- out after, being greedy for a single run .
Later Captain Rizwan and Saud Shakeel built an Impressive Partnership of 104 runs for third wicket. But despite getting an chance from Harshit Rana, Rizwan couldn’t use the Opportunity and losses his wicket for Axar Patel, Scoring 46(77) including three fours in it.
In the very next over Hardik Pandya picks up Wicket of Shakeel, who departs after scoring Crucial 62 (76) including five 4s in it.
Later nobody stayed at the crease, kudos to the Indian bowling Unit for that. But some Crucial knocks from Khusdil Shah of 38(39) with two 6s including in it .
Rest of all the batters didn’t score much runs for the team thus concluding at (241/10) in 49.4 Overs, to set an target of 242 for Indian team.
Key Moments of the Match
- Virat Kohli became Fastest Player in Cricket to Score 14,000 ODI run, breaking the record of Sachin Tendulkar who took 350 Innings to score 14,000 ODI runs
- Kohli Completed his 14,000 ODI runs in 297 Innings, which is 63 Innings lesser than Tendulkar.
- Kuldeep Yadav Took three Crucial wickets in his spell, that is in 9 overs he gave 40 runs and took 3 wickets.
- Virat Kohli Scored his 82nd International Century and his 51st ODI Century against Pakistan, standing all alone at the peak of this Milestone.
Second Innings
With an Competing Score of 242 runs to chase, Indian batters Rohit Sharma(C) and Shubman Gill addressed the crease, As Expected Rohit Sharma gave Blistering start hitting Pakistan bowlers all over the park. But Rohit Sharma’s departs for 20 (15) for an late-played yorker from Shaheen Afridi . Rohit Sharma hit three 4s and one 6s in his 20 runs Innings.
Next Defending Player of the match, Later after Rohit’s wicket Shubman Gill Carried Rohit’s aggressive Approach & Intent in his batting and started to target the Pakistan bowlers, especially Shaheen Afridi hitting him with 3 fours in an Single over and 2 fours in next over . But even after getting an Opportunity from Haris Rauf, Gill could not use the oppurtunity strong enough, losing his wicket to an beautiful leg spin from Abrar Ahmed and departed at (100/2) for his well scored 46 (52) including seven 4s in it.
Next Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli built an 114 runs Partnership including 54 Runs from Virat Kohli and 56 Runs from Shreyas Iyer in it.
Iyer Departs for well scored 56 (67) including five 4s and one 6s in it, departing at scoreboard (214/3).
Hardik Pandya came and went as speed as an athlete runs an 100m running with an Boundary in his bag, and went at (223/4) with scoring 8 runs from 6 balls.
Finally at 96 Runs Kohli hits an Four and completes his Century and India wins the Match with 6 Wickets in hand.
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Points table
Group A
| Sl no | Team | P | W | L | NR | PTS | NRR |
| 1 | IND | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.647 |
| 2 | NZ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | +1.200 |
| 3 | BAN | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.408 |
| 4 | PAK | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -1.087 |
Group B
| Sl no | Team | P | W | L | NR | PTS | NRR |
| 1 | RSA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | +2.140 |
| 2 | AUS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | +0.475 |
| 3 | ENG | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -0.475 |
| 4 | AFG | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | –2.140 |
Standings are updated every match
P : the number of matches played
W : the number of matches won
L : the number of matches lost
PTS : number of points rewarded
NRR : Net run rate
Player of the Match
Virat Kohli was Awarded as the Player of the Match for Scoring 100* runs and Contributing to Indian’s Win.