The match between India vs Pakistan is always special for cricket lovers, and this time too something similar was seen. India defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets in the fifth match of the Champions Trophy 2025 played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
The biggest contribution to this victory was made by Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli, who played a brilliant unbeaten innings of 100 runs.
ICC Champions Trophy 2025 IND vs PAK Match Status
Batting first, Pakistan scored 241 runs, but the Indian team achieved this target in just 42.3 overs. Pakistan captain Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bat first, but the Indian bowlers performed brilliantly and stopped Pakistan from scoring a big score.
Pakistan gave a target of 241 runs in the first innings
Pakistan had a slow start and the team came under pressure after losing early wickets. Saud Shakeel (62) and Mohammad Rizwan (46) tried to handle the innings, but the Indian bowlers took important wickets from time to time and bundled out Pakistan for 241 runs in 49.4 overs.
Pakistan’s top scorers:
- Saud Shakeel – 62 runs (76 balls, 5 fours)
- Mohammad Rizwan – 46 runs (77 balls, 3 fours)
- Khushdil Shah – 38 runs (39 balls, 2 sixes)
India’s best bowlers:
- Kuldeep Yadav – 9 overs, 40 runs, 3 wickets
- Hardik Pandya – 8 overs, 31 runs, 2 wickets
- Ravindra Jadeja – 7 overs, 40 runs, 1 wicket
Kohli’s century in the second innings helped India win the match:
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma (20) and Shubman Gill (46) gave the team a fast start. After this, Virat Kohli showed his class and led the team to victory by playing an unbeaten innings of 100 runs. Along with him, Shreyas Iyer (56) also made a great contribution.
India’s top scorers:
- Virat Kohli – 100* runs (111 balls, 7 fours)
- Shreyas Iyer – 56 runs (67 balls, 5 fours, 1 six)
- Shubman Gill – 46 runs (52 balls, 7 fours)
Pakistan’s best bowlers:
- Shaheen Afridi – 8 overs, 74 runs, 2 wickets
- Abrar Ahmed – 10 overs, 28 runs, 1 wicket
- Khushdil Shah – 7.3 overs, 43 runs, 1 wicket
IND vs PAK After Match Statment
Rohit Sharma (India captain):
The way we started with the ball was superb to restrict them to that kind of score. We knew it would get slightly better to bat under lights. Gets slower as well but we wanted to back the experience in our lineup to go out there and get those runs. Credit goes to guys like Axar, Kuldeep and Jadeja in the middle there.
They’ve played a lot of cricket in this format and understand what’s required of them. Rizwan and Saud stitched a very good partnership so it was important for us to not let the game drift away. The experience of the three spinners comes in handy there. Not to forget how Hardik, Harshit and Shami bowled. Everyone came to the party and did exactly what was required on that pitch. A lot of the credit goes to the players as well. We’ve played a lot of cricket together and they do understand what job is required of them. It can be quite tricky at times where some guys will not get to bowl 10 overs. It’s important to understand what’s working on that particular day and maximize that. Everyone will have different days but it was Axar, Kuldeep – those guys stepped up today. In the previous game it was Jadeja, in this game it was these guys and Hardik with those crucial strikes. (On Kohli) He loves representing the country. He wants to be out there playing for the team, doing what he does the best which is to go out there and do what he did today.
Over the years we’ve seen it with him. People sitting in the dressing room are not surprised. It was good for him to be out there in the middle, finish the game off. Couple of crucial knocks from the others too there. (On his hamstring) It’s holding up but it’s okay at the moment.
Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan captain):
(On the batting performance) We won the toss but we didn’t get the benefit of it. Yesterday we decided that 280 was enough on that pitch and that’s how we started. But they bowled very well and kept us quiet. Me and Saud took time, we wanted to bat deep. But you can say it was a poor shot selection at the time. They bowled very well and put us under pressure.
That’s why we were restricted to 240 (241). (On the bowling) You can say that (we needed more from the bowlers). They attacked us. We wanted to squeeze them but we weren’t able to. Abrar bowled very well. But Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill played very well and took the match away from us. We need to improve in our fielding as well if you see the fielding of other teams. We made a lot of mistakes in this match and the last match as well. We understand that and hopefully we’ll work on that after the tournament.
