ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Virat Kohli's unbeaten ton, also made these records as Team India slays Pakistan

Team India defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets in the second match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. With this, the team avenged the 180-run defeat in the 2017 Champions Trophy final. Pakistan scored 241 runs on Sunday in Dubai. India achieved the target by losing 4 wickets in 42.3 overs.

For India, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 100, Shreyas Iyer scored 56 and Shubman Gill scored 46 runs. Kuldeep Yadav took 3 wickets and Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets. For Pakistan, Saud Shakeel scored 62 and Mohammad Rizwan scored 46 runs. Shaheen Shah Afridi took 2 wickets. Abrar Ahmed and Khushdil Shah took 1 wicket each.

Virat Kohli's records

Virat became the Indian to take the most catches in ODIs, 158. He also completed the fastest 14 thousand ODI runs as soon as he scored the 15th run in the innings. Kohli also became the third top scorer in international cricket. He surpassed Australia's Ricky Ponting, who has 27,483 runs to his name.

Kohli scored 100 runs in 111 balls. He completed his 51st ODI century with a four.

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Virat Kohli was hero of India's win. Virat Kohli played an innings of 100 runs in 111 balls. He came to play after Rohit Sharma was out and kept the Indian innings tied. Virat played out Abrar's overs with patience, then scored runs quickly.

Kuldeep Yadav played key role in victory. He took 3 wickets, stopped Pakistan from scoring runs in the death overs. He took the wickets of Salman Agha, Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah in the death overs. Due to this, Pakistan team could not score many runs in the death overs.

Reasons for Pakistan's defeat

After losing 2 wickets in the powerplay, Pakistan batted very slowly in the middle overs. Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel made a partnership of 104 runs in 144 balls. The team could score only 131 runs in 180 balls between 11 and 40 overs.

Pakistan gave a chance to only one full-time spinner Abrar Ahmed in the playing-11. Who took 1 wicket for 28 runs in 10 overs. The rest of the spinners could not support him. The team also did not keep leg spin all-rounder Shadab Khan in the squad.