Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan vs India, Match 5, Stats Review: Best batting average in ICC tournaments and other stats

India pretty much swept the rug with Pakistan in Match 5 of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The loss has now severely dented Pakistan's chances of making it to the semif-finals of a tournament where they are the designated hosts, although this particular game was held in Dubai. 

Pakistan chose to bat first, but the decision didn't really pay-off as Pakistan lost two wickets in the powerplay and didn't have that many runs on the board either. Saud Shakeel (62 off 76) and Mohammad Rizwan tried to rebuild the Pakistan innings with a stand of 104, but a spirited bowling and fielding performance from India led by Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav sent Pakistan tumbling from 151/2 to 241 all-out.

At the halfway stage, it looked like the total wasn't going to be a challenge for India and it proved right. Rohit Sharma took the aggressive route but fell early. Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli (100* off 111) put up 69 for the second wicket as Kohli safely negotiated his way through the middle overs and put up 114 with Shreyas Iyer (56 off 67). By the time Iyer departed, the most tense thing about the chase was whether Kohli would get to his hundred, which he did. Kohli reached his 100 with the winning shot of the match which he hit four amidst some drama where it increasingly looked like he would be stranded in the 90's. Kohli getting to his hundred helped him shatter some records which will be covered in this article and the match basically turned into Kohli's Day Out. 

Here are the most important numbers from the game: 

12 - India have now lost the toss in 12 ODIs in a row - the longest such sequence for any team ever in this format. 

65 - The number of innings in which Babar Azam has now not scored a hundred in international cricket. It is the longest ongoing such sequence for any batter in the world. 

1 - Kohli's two catches from today's game took his catches tally as a fielder in ODIs to 158 - the highest by an Indian and the third highest in the world in this format. 

1 - Rohit Sharma became the sixth player and the third Indian to score 9000 runs as an opener in ODIs. By the number of innings taken to the milestone, he became the fastest getting there in 181 innings. 

1 - Virat Kohli became the fastest player to score 14,000 runs in ODIs getting there in 287 innings. The other two players to get to the milestone, Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara, took 350 and 378 innings respectively. 

3 - Virat Kohli notched up his sixth century in ICC ODI tournaments (World Cups and Champions Trophies) - the joint third most. Rohit Sharma leads the chart with eight, hust ahead of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly's seven each while Shikhar Dhawan, Ricky Ponting, David Warner and Kumar Sangakkara have as many as Kohli. 

1 - Virat Kohli's batting average of 66.10 in ICC ODI tournaments is the highest among all batters to have a minimum of 1000 runs in the big events. The next best is 65.15 by Shikhar Dhawan 

1 - Virat Kohli's batting average of 93 in the Champions trophy is the highest of all batters to have scored a minimum of 300 runs in the tournament. 

3 - Virat Kohli is now Indi's third highest ru-getter in the Champions Trophy with 651. Only Shikhar Dhawan and Sourav Gangly have more.