Champions Trophy 2024/25, IND vs Pak 5th Match, Report of Group A, February 23, 2025

India 244 for 4 (Kohli 100*, Iyer 56, Afridi 2-74) Beat Pakistan 241 All out (Shakeel 62, Kuldeep 3-40, Hardik 2-31) for six WICKETS

In the biggest match of the year, with its mortality showing more than it used to, Virat Kohli showed that it still has it, which perhaps, only perhaps, the little that has lost will not define it. He obtained 14,000 races at Cricket Odi, mentioned his 51st century Odi, established India for a semifinal place and essentially crossed Pakistan of the 2025 champions trophy. The headlines and hosts need other results to continue their way to stay alive in the tournament now .

India entered the game as favorites. They demonstrated it worthy of that planting by limiting Pakistan to 241, Hardik Pandya putting the type of performance that should make it illegal. An SUV capable of ruling out the best batter in the opposition, and then knocksing down its best score, it is not just a name on the sheet. He is the secret sauce.

And Kuldeep Yadav was the spice. His left arm doll is very rare and made it more rare to find a way of being fast through the air without compromising the turn or precision. That means that unless the batters choose him by the hand, they will always guess. Three Pakistan batters eager. The three were death wickets. Pakistan was preparing to explode death. Kuldeep simply did not leave them. The injury has not affected his threat.

Pakistan could produce moments. Shaheen Shah Aphridi sending a yorker of 143 km / h to break Rohit Sharma’s stumps. Abrar Ahmed conjuring a watero ball of hell to get rid of a Agacia de Shubman Gill. But when it came to capitalize them, they simply could not. The result was a world champion team that was recognized for taking games from the fire now seems to do the first part correctly, they definitely got into trouble in Dubai, but the other part, the important part is going very badly. Pakistan were 151 for 2 in 34 before they retired for 241 with the most inexperienced member of the dictators of India, Rana and their slower balls were impossible to hit.

A game in a CPI event and a rivalry with history exploding finally became so unilateral that its last moments were dominated by an individual search. Axar Patel rejected two easy so that Kohli could pursue his hundred. The crowd in Dubai loved that. There were 12 races to obtain the victory of India and 12 races to obtain the century of their hero and sang their name over and over again. Pakistan was nowhere. From a collapse of 3 by 11 in 19 balls, this game became pear form for them.

Mohammad Rizwan had deposited in the entrances that were going so differently. He reached 47 by 2 and hit his first ball for four and then decided that the race score was not for him. He was 24, 50 years old. He barely hit the ball with anger. Lord blank refused to. At the other extreme, Saud Shakeel was at least making an effort to turn the good balls he faced into singles. When he reached fifty, he had resisted only 29 knit balls. At the same time, Rizwan at the other end had accumulated 40. India did well to turn him to begin his entries. But still, this was a better release than the Opening game in Dubai a few days ago. It was not flat, but it had a little more rhythm, and improved the lights. Rizwan, however, hit as if cursed. He was worried that bad things happened if he tried to hit the ball tightly.

And he did a little. Rizwan fell trying to hit Axar outside the ground and his wickt caused a collapse. Shakeel fell into the next and Tayyab Tahir followed him shortly after. India, having spent 320 deliveries in two games in search of a wickt in the media, had found three in the space of four. Pakistan was 165 by 5th. Soon it would be 200 for 7, having to negotiate the last 7.1 overvalues of the entrances with its exposed tail.

The discipline of India never let Pakistan out of the hook and lead the road was Hardik, hitting the ball just at the height of a field that offered a little grip and some tennis-box rebound. He took Babar Azam at a time when the Indian rapid player from Indian, Mohammed Shami was out of the field, with a charming ball that bit herself after throwing and made Shakeel due to lack of pace just after the left -handed hit by four. I always knew what to do to exploit the conditions and make the life of the batter miserable. On the back of their work, Kuldeep and Rana withdrew 6.4 deaths for 28 races and collected four Wickts.

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