India vs Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025, India Defeated Pakistan By Six Wickets
India defeated Pakistan by six wickets in the fifth match of the India vs Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025. In the match played in Dubai on Sunday,
The Indian cricket team achieved the target of 242 runs in the 44th over. Virat Kohli played a key role in the team’s victory and remained unbeaten on 100 runs.
Indian innings
India’s first wicket fell for 31 runs, captain Rohit Sharma was dismissed after scoring 20 runs, Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled Rohit Sharma, India’s second wicket fell for 100 runs, Shubman Gill was dismissed after scoring 46 runs.
India’s third wicket fell for 214 runs when Shreyas Iyer was dismissed for 56 runs, the fourth wicket fell for 223 runs, Hardik Pandya was dismissed for 8 runs, Virat Kohli scored 100 runs while Axar Patel remained not out for 3 runs.
Pakistani bowling
For Pakistan, Shaheen Afridi took 2 wickets, while Khushdil Shah and Abrar Ahmed took one wicket each.
Virat Kohli was named the player of the match for scoring a brilliant century.
Earlier, in the match being played in Dubai, the entire Pakistan team was bowled out for 241 runs in 49.4 overs while batting first.
Pakistani innings
Pakistan’s first wicket fell for 41 runs, Babar Azam was dismissed for 23 runs, the second wicket fell for 47 runs when Imam-ul-Haq was run out for 10 runs off 26 balls, captain Muhammad Rizwan could score 46 runs, Saud Shakeel played an innings of 62 runs.
Pakistan’s fifth wicket fell for 165 runs, Tayeb Tahir was dismissed for 4 runs, Pakistan’s sixth wicket fell for 200 runs, vice-captain Salman Ali Agha was dismissed for 19 runs, the seventh wicket also fell for 200 runs, Shaheen Afridi was dismissed lbw on the very first ball.
Pakistan’s 8th wicket fell for 222 runs, Naseem Shah was dismissed after scoring 14 runs, the ninth player to be dismissed was Haris Rauf who was run out after scoring 8 runs off 7 balls, Khushdil Shah played an innings of 38 runs off 39 balls.
Indian bowling
For India, Mohammed Shami bowled the first over in which he bowled 5 wide balls, Kuldeep Yadav took 3, Hardik Pandya took 2, Harshit Rana, Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja took one wicket each, while 2 Pakistani batsmen were run out.
The captains of both teams shaking hands before the toss.
Earlier, in the most important match of the India vs Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan won the toss against India and decided to bat first. After winning the toss, national captain Muhammad Rizwan said that we will try to give a good target, every match is important. One change has been made in the team, Imam-ul-Haq has been included in the team in place of Fakhar Zaman.
Pakistan has a good record at this ground, they will try to set a big target, it is the most important match, they will try to win it.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that winning or losing the toss is not a problem, we will play our best as a team, we wanted to bowl first.
We have experienced batsmen, no changes have been made to the team.
India vs Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025 Squads
Muhammad Rizwan, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Khushdil Shah, Abrar Ahmed, Tayeb Tahir, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Akshar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Harshit Rana
Pakistan’s journey in the ICC Champions Trophy ended as quickly as it began, and Pakistan’s journey ended on the sixth day of the tournament with two consecutive defeats.
Thus, India and New Zealand qualified for the semi-finals from Group A. India vs Pakistan Champions Trophy 2025, India reached the semi-finals by defeating Pakistan by 6 wickets after a one-sided match.
New Zealand defeated Pakistan in the opening match of the event, while India also defeated Bangladesh in their first match.
On the other hand, Pakistan’s preparations for the Champions Trophy have been hampered. In the first two matches, the national team’s batting and bowling failed, while the fielders also failed to take catches.
Overall, Pakistani players’ performance in the ICC event was zero, losing to New Zealand on their home ground in the opening match of the tournament and then facing humiliation once again at the hands of India in Dubai.
Surprisingly, the national team had set a new record for achieving its highest target in ODI cricket against South Africa in the tri-series before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, however, against New Zealand in the same series, the players could not ‘learn’ anything and suffered 3 consecutive defeats against the Kiwis.
Not only cricket fans but also former players are strongly criticizing Pakistan’s poor performance in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, and everyone is demanding that this team be changed now and the youth be given a chance.
During a conversation outside the Dubai Stadium, a Pakistani said that we are sad that Pakistan has always been famous for its pace attack, but the pace attack we had at that time was of no use. Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf are of no use anymore, new players should be brought in their place.
Former national team captain and legendary fast bowler Wasim Akram, while expressing his opinion on a sports channel, said that for a long time we have been losing to them in white ball matches. Now it is time to take strict measures.
Wasim Akram further said that we have to give opportunities to new and fearless players, for this you have to change 5 to 6 players or you will keep losing for 6 months but do this, if you want to prepare a team for the 2026 T20 World Cup, then prepare now.
Former Test opener Ahmed Shehzad said that a group of 6-8 players form a group, they are addicted to captaincy, merit is being massacred in domestic cricket, and slips are happening in the national team.
Ahmed Shehzad further said, “The chairman of the Cricket Board came and said there will be surgery in the team, what surgery?” As per the plan, after the defeat in the World Cup, all the blame was placed on two players, sidelined them and a selector was fired. His salary was not stopped either, this was the plan.”
