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Virat Kohli scored 100 runs from 111 balls for India on Sunday (February 23) in the Champions Trophy 2025 match played against Pakistan at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Virat Kohli scored 100 runs from 111 balls against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday. (Picture Credit: AFP)
Virat Kohli scored 100 runs from 111 balls for India on Sunday, February 23, to seal a memorable six-wicket win for the Rohit Sharma-led side over Pakistan in the Champions Trophy 2025 Group A match played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. During his stay at the crease on Sunday, the former India captain scored 7 fours. He added 69 runs for the second wicket with Shubman Gill (46) and 114 runs for the third wicket with Shreyas Iyer (56). For his superb show with the bat in Match No. 5 of the Champions Trophy 2025, Kohli won the Player of the Match award.
Apart from leading India to a big win in Dubai and taking them closer to a spot in the semifinal, Kohli broke multiple batting records.
Here’s a look at list of records broken by Kohli during his 100-run knock against Pakistan in Dubai on Sunday:
Kohli became the fastest batter in the world to score 14,000 runs in ODI cricket on Sunday. The former Indian skipper came into the match with 13,985 runs to his name in 298 ODIs, and he broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record by crossing the 15-run mark with a boundary on the second ball of the 13th over of the run chase bowled by Haris Rauf. Kohli completed 14,000 ODI runs in his 287th inning, whereas Tendulkar achieved the same feat in his 350th inning. Overall, Kohli is the third batter after Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara to score 14,000 or more runs in the 50-over format of the game.
Fastest to 14,000 runs in ODIs (innings)
- Virat Kohli (India) – 287
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 350
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) – 378
Kohli completed his half-century in the match with a boundary on the first ball of the 27th over bowled by Naseem Shah. He needed 62 balls to cross the 50-run mark. The half-century was Kohli’s sixth 50+ score in 15 Champions Trophy matches, and it also helped him take the joint No. 1 position in the list of batters with the most 50+ scores in the Champions Trophy. Shikhar Dhawan, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid have also crossed the 50-run mark six times in the Champions Trophy.
Most 50+ scores in Champions Trophy
- Virat Kohli (India) – 6
- Shikhar Dhawan (India) – 6
- Sourav Ganguly (India) – 6
- Rahul Dravid (India) – 6
- Damien Martyn (Australia) – 5
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 5
- Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies) – 5
- Ricky Ponting (Australia) – 5
- Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) – 5
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) – 5
Kohli’s knock on Sunday also helped him equal legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most 50+ scores (23) in ICC’s ODI tournaments. Sachin scored 6 centuries and 15 fifties in 45 ODI World Cup matches and 1 century and 1 fifty in 16 Champions Trophy matches. Whereas Kohli has 5 centuries and 12 fifties to his name in the ODI World Cup and 1 century and 5 fifties in the Champions Trophy.
Most 50+ scores in ICC ODI tournaments (World Cup and Champions Trophy)
- Virat Kohli (India) – 23
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 23
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 18
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) – 17
- Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) – 15
Kohli broke Ricky Ponting’s record of 27,483 runs and became the third leading run scorer in international cricket on Sunday when he reached the 81-run mark by taking two runs on the last ball of the 36th over bowled by Haris Rauf. During his 17-year-long international career, Ponting played 560 matches across formats and scored 27,483 runs for Australia and ICC. Kohli, on the other hand, has 27,503 runs to his name now in 547 matches for India.
Most runs in international cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 34,357
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka, Asia, ICC) – 28,016
- Virat Kohli (India) – 27,503
- Ricky Ponting (Australia, ICC) – 27,483
- Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka, Asia) – 25,957
Kohli completed his 51st ODI century for India with a boundary on the third ball of the 43rd over of the run chase bowled by Khushdil Shah. The century helped Kohli extend his world record of most hundreds in the 50-over format of the game, and he also became the first Indian batter to score a century against Pakistan in the Champions Trophy. Before Kohli, the highest individual score by an Indian batter against Pakistan in the Champions Trophy was 91 by Rohit Sharma.
Highest score for India against Pakistan in Champions Trophy
- Virat Kohli – 100* from 111 balls in Dubai on February 23, 2025
- Rohit Sharma – 91 from 119 balls in Birmingham on June 4, 2017
- Virat Kohli – 81* from 68 balls in Birmingham on June 4, 2017
- Rahul Dravid – 76 from 103 balls in Centurion on September 26, 2009
- Hardik Pandya – 76 from 43 balls at The Oval on June 18, 2017
- Shikhar Dhawan – 68 from 65 balls in Birmingham on June 4, 2017
- Rahul Dravid – 67 from 108 balls in Birmingham on September 19, 2004
- Gautam Gambhir – 57 from 46 balls in Centurion on September 26, 2009
- Shreyas Iyer – 56 from 67 balls in Dubai on February 23, 2025
- Yuvraj Singh – 53 from 32 balls in Birmingham on June 4, 2017
The century on Sunday helped Virat break former Sri Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuriya’s record of 189 runs and become the leading run-scorer in the Champions Trophy against Pakistan. In five Champions Trophy matches against the 2017 champions, Kohli has 224 runs to his name.
Most runs against Pakistan in Champions Trophy
- Virat Kohli (India) – 224
- Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) – 189
- Rahul Dravid (India) – 143
- Shikhar Dhawan (India) – 137
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 129
- Tom Latham (New Zealand) – 118
- Scott Styris (New Zealand) – 114
- Will Young (New Zealand) – 107
- Hardik Pandya (India) – 104
Kohli became the first batter to score a century against Pakistan in the Champions Trophy and ODI World Cup. So far, four batters have crossed the 100-run mark against Men in Green in the Champions Trophy and 13 batters in the ODI World Cup, but Kohli is the only one to achieve the feat in both ICC ODI tournaments.
Highest scores against Pakistan in Champions Trophy
- Tom Latham (New Zealand) – 118* from 104 balls in Karachi on February 19, 2025
- Will Young (New Zealand) – 107 from 113 balls in Karachi on February 19, 2025
- Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) – 102* from 120 balls in Colombo (RPS) on September 12, 2002
- Virat Kohli (India) – 100* from 111 balls in Dubai on February 23, 2025
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 91 from 119 balls in Birmingham on June 4, 2017
The unbeaten 100-run knock in Dubai on Sunday helped Kohli extend his tally of runs to 433 in nine matches against Pakistan in ICC ODI tournaments which is the most by any batter. He has 224 runs to his name in five Champions Trophy matches and 209 runs in four ODI World Cup matches. He broke Rohit Sharma’s record of 370 runs.
Most runs against Pakistan in ICC tournaments (World Cup and Champions Trophy)
- Virat Kohli (India) – 433
- Rohit Sharma (India) – 370
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 321
- David Warner (Australia) – 294
- Viv Richards (West Indies) – 253
In addition to the above-mentioned batting records, Kohli also became India’s most successful fielder in ODIs on Sunday. By taking Naseem Shah’s catch on the fourth ball of the 47th over of the Pakistani innings bowled by Kuldeep Yadav, Kohli extended his tally of catches in ODIs to 157, which is one more than Mohammad Azharuddin’s record of 156 catches in 334 ODIs. Only Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene (218) and Australia’s Ponting (160) have completed more catches than him in the 50-over format of the game now.
Most catches for India in ODIs
- Virat Kohli – 158
- Mohammad Azharuddin – 156
- Sachin Tendulkar – 140
- Rahul Dravid – 124
- Suresh Raina – 102
- Sourav Ganguly – 99
- Rohit Sharma – 96
Most catches in ODIs
- Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka, Asia) – 218
- Ricky Ponting (Australia, ICC) – 160
- Virat Kohli (India) – 158
- Mohammad Azharuddin (India) – 156
- Ross Taylor (New Zealand) – 142
Kohli won his 5th Player of the Match award against Pakistan in ICC tournaments on Sunday. No other player has won more than three POTM awards against a single opponent in ICC tournaments.
Kohli’s POTM awards against Pakistan in ICC tournaments
- 78* from 61 balls in Colombo (T20 World Cup 2012)
- 107 from 126 balls in Adelaide (ODI World Cup 2015)
- 55* from 37 balls in Kolkata (T20 World Cup 2016)
- 82* from 53 balls in Melbourne (T20 World Cup 2022)
- 100* from 111 balls in Dubai (Champions Trophy 2025)
Kohli, who is arguably the greatest ODI batter of all time, would like to maintain his good show in the upcoming matches as well and help Team India become Champions Trophy winners for the record-extending third time.
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