India vs Pakistan, Champions Trophy 2025: Kohli seals win and century in style, IND romp home against PAK

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The story at the end of all that is India are sitting pretty at the top of the table on four points off two games in Group A. They are not mathematically through to the semi-finals yet but are almost there. Pakistan are banking Bangladesh beating New Zealand tomorrow in Rawalpindi and then team beating Bangladesh. In between all that is a whole mess of NRR scenarios as well for them to deal with. They are on the brink. We haven't really had a close ODI match between these two sides for a while now. It has been one-sided either way more often than not, unlike what was the case in T20Is of course. But well, what can any team do when Virat Kohli looks as inevitable as he did today. Not much. India will be hoping that he continues like this throughout the tournament. That's that from us, thanks for sticking around and good night!

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: He also tells Ramiz Raja that his hamstring is "okay at the moment."

Here is a gist of all that a beaming Indian captain said: "The way we started with the ball was superb. We knew it gets slightly better to bat under lights. We backed our experience to get the runs. Credit goes to guys like, Axar, Kuldeep and Jadeja. They stitch a very good partnership - Rizwan and Shakeel. It was important not to let the game drift away. Not to forget the way Hardik, Shami and Harshit bowled as well. We've played a lot together, this format. It can be quite tricky at times. Axar and Kuldeep stepped up today. (On Kohli) He loves representing the country. He wants to be out there. We've seen it with him over the years. People in the dressing room are not surprised. It (hamstring) is okay at the moment."

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Kohli says that it is good that batters across the top order are getting runs and this sets India up very well for the rest of the tournamnet. Bishop then asks if the week-long break India get now is good or bad for them. “To be honest, at 36, it feels really good,” he says with a smile. “Will put my feet up for a few days as it takes a lot out of me to put that kind of effort into every game.”

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Fascinating point there from Kohli where he talks about how fielding well actually helps him bat well as well. “I have a decent understanding of my game. It's about keeping the outside noise away, take care of my energy levels and thoughts. It's easy for me to get pulled into expectations and frenzy around games like these. My job is to focus on my skill and keep doing the job for the team. I kept telling myself in the field whenever I felt that I am going to give 100% while fielding. It's why I take pride in it,” he said.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: No surprises there. Kohli takes the award and then talks to Ian Bishop for the host broadcasters.

“It feels to be good to bat in that manner in an important game, where we wanted to seal a spot in the semis and to contribute in a situation like that after Rohit fell. My job was clear - to control the middle overs, not take risks against spinners and take on pacers. Keep rotating strike. Once we strung a good partnership Shreyas accelarated and I got a few boundaries as well. I was happy with the template, it's how I play in ODIs.”

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Kohli comes down the ground and sends the third ball of the 43rd over through extra cover to the boundary. He takes off his helmet and then basically says stop worrying! It's me! Of course I was going to do it. Virat Kohli finishes unbeaten on 100 off 111 balls. His fourth ODI ton against Pakistan in his 18th match against India's arch-rivals.

Well, Rohit Sharma had scored a masterful century out of nowhere a couple of games ago against England, in which it looked like he was never ever stuck in that horrendous patch of form he was actually caught up in at the time. It's quite similar today for Kohli. There was hardly a chance given to Pakistan today by the former India captain. There is no way one can say that it was only weeks ago that he was unable to buy a run in Australia seeing the way he batted today in Dubai. His ton has put India comfortably on top of the table. Pakistan, on the other hand, on the brink of being knocked out of the first major tournament they are hosting in decades.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: India have won this match but you wouldn't be able to say it if you could see the tension on the faces of the fans in blue in the stands. Rohit is all smiles sitting in the dressing room. Khushdil Shah to bowl now. Here we go!

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: This is great drama now. India need 17 runs to win at the start of the 41st over, Kohli is on 87 with Axar on strike. Axar takes a single, Kohli takes another. And then Afridi bowls a wide, Axar runs one, Kohli wants to run another but Axar refuses. Kohli livid, he is the only one in the ground who is more concerned about winning than getting his century. Then Afridi bowls another wide and boos everhywhere. Two runs after that and yet another wide.

India need just nine to win but Kohli on 91!!

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: India doing a bit of hara-kiri towards the end. Pakistan not celebrating at all because India need just 19 to win off 60 balls. Bouncer down leg from Afridi, Pandya goes for the pull. It only takes an edge and Rizwan takes the catch. If only these wickets came 20 overs ago for Pakistan.

Hardik Pandya c Mohammad Rizwan b Shaheen Shah Afridi 8 (6)

India 223/4 in 40 overs

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Wow there are almost no celebrations for that catch simply because of how far this match has gone out of Pakistan's hands but that is actually something that should be a candidate for catch of the tournament. Shreyas makes room and smashes a full ball from Khushdil. Imam dives to his right at cover, takes it mid-air and holds on to it. Out comes Hardik Pandya.

Shreyas Iyer c Imam-ul-Haq b Khushdil Shah 56 (67)

India 214/3 in 38.5 overs

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Just a run off that 37th over by Abrar. Iyer took a single to long off fifth ball and that takes him to 50 in 63 balls. Kohli at the other end on 81 off 92 balls.

India now need 41 to win from 72 balls. They are in cruise mode, Pakistan are in a hole they don't seem to know the way out of.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Kohli and Iyer are just having fun now. Single off the second ball for Iyer, then Kohli and Iyer runa couple of twos. Kohli then pulls the fifth ball from belly-high, almost a Nataraja shot that. The ball goes the boundary and then two runs off the last ball.

Kohli on 81 off 91, Iyer on 49 off 58.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Even an over like that means absolutely nothing in terms of pressure for India. Four singles there and Kohli is on 67 off 80, Iyer on 43 off 51 balls. A 51st ODI century is increasiingly becoming a possibility now for Kohli. If he ends up going on a run for the rest of the tournament after this then well, any team facing India have their tasks cut out.

India need 63 to win off 102 balls

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Iyer with back to back fours off Khushdil in the 30th over and then he smashes Salman Ali Agha's third ball next over for a gigantic six. Rizwan was down on his haunches on seeing that. To make matters worse, Iyer was dropped at midwicket last ball of the 30th as well, the kind of catch that international cricketers are expected to take.

Kohli is on 65 off 77 balls, Iyer on 34 off 42 balls.

India 168/2 in 31 overs

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Kohli welcomes Afridi by advancing down the track and chipping the first ball elegantly over mid-on for a four. Two singles off the third and fourth balls and then two twos off the last two. 10 runs in that over. Pakistan would've wanted their spearhead to take a wicket there, what has happened couldn't be more different from that.

Kohli on 64 off 74, Iyer on 17 off 33.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Well these two are just picking off singles whenever they want, Kohli in absolute control. None of that prodding and pricking outside off. This is a glimpse we are getting of the Virat Kohli that used to rule the world between around 2015 and 2019. Four runs comes off the 28th by Khushdil with no risk whatsoever.

Kohli on 55 off 69, Shreyas playing second fiddle very well, he is on 16 off 32.

India need 102 to win from 132 balls.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: It doesn't matter what form he is in, if it's a match against Pakistan, Kohli shows up. Naseem continues in the 27th, on a length outside off first ball and Kohli plays it up and over the off side to beat deep cover to the boundary.

He moves to 51 off 62 with that shot.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Rauf had bowled about four overs on the trot there and for all that effort, he has conceded 33 in his five thus far today for no wickets. The latter is not really his fault of course. Naseem returns and just two singles for the two batters in it.

Iyer on 11 off 23, Kohli on 46 off 60. India's run rate is now starting to dip to less than 5 but that RRR remains lower.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Iyer's new and improved batting stance seems to have made the short ball a favourite of his now. Kohli taps the first ball past the bowler for a single. Dot balls after that the next three balls for Iyer and then he pulls the fifth one emphatically over midwicket for four.

Iyer moves to 10 off 18, Kohli on 44 off 53.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: So far so good for Shreyas Iyer. He has moved to six off 13. Kohli at the other end on 43 off 52.

India need 124 to win from 168 balls and so there is absolutely no pressure on them to score quicker than they are at the moment. Rizwan has kept Abrar and Rauf on the batters for now, with the latter now set to return for his fifth over in the 23rd now.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: "Loha garam hai, maar do hathoda (the iron is hot, hit it with the hammer)," that's how the famous dialogue goes from Sholay, and that is what Mohammad Rizwan intends to do here. The new batter is in, and moreover he is Shreyas Iyer, who has had his issues with the short ball in the past. So Rizwan brings his fastest bowler back into the attack.

Kohli is on strike though, he is on 32 off 39, Iyer has scored one run off the second ball he faced.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Where in the world did that come from? He gets the third ball of the 18th to drift in to Gill, pitches on length, Gill shapes up for the flick but spins sharply away from him, cleanly past the bat and the stumps. Gill stands for a couple of seconds, utterly stunned; Kohli shakes his head in disbelief, Abrar folds his hand, looks to his right and slightly nods in the direction of the pavilion. Absolute cinema.

Gill b Abrar Ahmed 46 (52)

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: If Kohli and Gill are allowed to run, they will run you to the ground. For the moment, that is exactly what is happening. Rizwan needs to find ways to get wickets here, Khushdil Shah doesn't really seem to be that. Kohli on 30 off 37, Gill on 46 off 50.

Meanwhile, worryingly for India, Gill seems to be in some discomfort with his left leg.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The spinners are on now. Abrar Ahmed bowling from one end and now Khushdil Shah replaces Rauf for the 15th. Just two runs off that over, single off the first ball for Gill and off the last for Kohli.

Gill is on 42 off 46, Kohli on 24 off 29. India are going at 5.93 runs an over, their required rate is 4.37. Very much in control.

India vs Pakistan Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: And quite fittingly, he gets there with his beloved cover drive. He did it the previous ball as well but could only run two. This time he sends it past mid-off and cover for four. Single off the next ball and Gill flicks the fourth through midwicket to run three. Kohli then unfurls another cover drive last ball for another four.

Kohli on 23 off 24, Gill on 41 off 45.