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Virat Kohli in motion in Champions Trophy 2025.© AFP
Senior batter Virat Kohli added one other feather to his extremely illustrious cap as he turned India’s main run-scorer within the ICC Champions Trophy historical past in the course of the semi-final conflict towards Australia at Dubai Worldwide Stadium on Tuesday. Kohli surpassed former India opener Shikhar Dhawan’s tally of 701 runs in 10 video games from 2013 to 2017. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly is the third-highest scorer for India within the event with 665 runs in 13 matches from 1998 to 2004. The 36-year-old reached the milestone throughout India’s chase of 265. Kohli achieved the feat in his seventeenth Champions Trophy match for India.
He additionally accomplished his 74th ODI half-century within the match and surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s file of most fifty-plus scores in ICC ODI tournaments. Kohli now has 24 fifty-plus scores in 58 innings whereas the legendary batter had 23 such scores in 58 innings in ICC ODI occasions.
Within the event to date, Kohli struck a match-winning century towards arch-rivals Pakistan in Dubai and has now carried his type to the knockout stage with a fantastically crafted knock after the early dismissals of openers Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma.
Coming again to the match, Australia skipper Steve Smith top-scored for the aspect with a knock of 73 runs whereas Alex Carey amassed 61 earlier than India bowled out the ODI world champions for 264 in 49.3 overs.
For India, Mohammed Shami bagged three scalps whereas Ravindra Jadeja and Varun Chakaravarthy grabbed two wickets every.
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