Champions Trophy: India Beat Pakistan By 6 Wickets
India defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets in a high-voltage match of the Champions Trophy 2025.
In the match played at the Dubai Cricket Stadium, Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat first, but the team failed to play the full 50 overs
and was dismissed for 241 runs in 49.4 overs. WInreply, India achieved the target in 42.3 overs for the loss of 4 wickets.
India’s innings
For India, Virat Kohli scored 100 runs and remained unbeaten, in addition to Shamban Gul 46, Rohit Sharma 20, and Shreyas Iyer scored 56 runs.
For Pakistan, Shaheen Shah Afridi dismissed 2 players, while Abrar Ahmed and Khushdil Shah were able to take one wicket each.
Pakistan’s innings
Pakistan’s first wicket fell when Babar Azam was caught by the wicketkeeper off Hardik Pandya’s delivery after scoring 23 runs. At that time, Pakistan’s total score was 41. Shortly after that, Imam-ul-Haq was run out after scoring 10 runs.
Pakistan suffered its third loss at a total score of 151 when captain Mohammad Rizwan was dismissed for 46 runs. Mohammad Rizwan scored 46 runs off 77 balls. After that, Saud Shakeel also returned to the pavilion after scoring 62 runs at a total score of 159.
Pakistan’s fifth wicket fell at a total score of 165 when Tayyab Tahir was dismissed for 4 runs.
After that, Pakistan suffered its sixth loss at a total score of 200 when vice-captain Salman Ali Aghaz was dismissed for 19 runs.
While Shaheen Shah Afridi returned to the pavilion without scoring any runs at the same total of 200. After this, Naseem Shah was dismissed for 14 runs at a total score of 222.
Pakistan’s ninth wicket fell at a total score of 241 when Haris Rauf was dismissed for 8 runs, while Khushdil Shah was also dismissed on the fourth ball of the 50th over after scoring 38 runs.
For India, Kuldeep Yadav dismissed 3 players, while Hardik Pandya managed to take 2 wickets. Apart from this, Ajay Jadeja, Harshit Ran, and Achar Patel took one wicket each.
Imam-ul-Haq was included in the Pakistan team in place of Fakhar Zaman, while no changes were made to the Indian team.
Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan, speaking after the toss, said that the team will perform well in this match and will put up a good total on the scoreboard.
On the other hand, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that it does not matter if Pakistan wins the toss and he would have bowled even if he had won the toss.
Pakistan Playing XI: Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan, Agha Salman, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Abrar Ahmed, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf.
India Playing XI: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Mohammad Shami and Kuldeep Yadav.
It should be noted that in the Champions Trophy hosted by Pakistan, India insisted on holding its matches in a neutral venue in Dubai instead of Pakistan, while all other matches of this international event are being held in Pakistan. Earlier, Pakistan won the Champions Trophy in 2017.
Pakistan had to lose its most important batsman Fakhar Zaman in the very first match of the event when he was ruled out of the tournament due to injury. Cricket observers believe that the absence of Fakhar Zaman in the team could affect Pakistan’s batting.
On the other hand, India is considered the favorite team in this event, having won 5 out of 6 matches against Pakistan since the 2017 Champions Trophy.
