- The first semi-final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was played on Tuesday, in which the Indian team faced Australia (IND vs AUS). In this encounter held at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Steve Smith won the toss and chose to bat first.
The first semi-final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was played on Tuesday, in which the Indian team faced Australia (IND vs AUS). In this clash held at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Steve Smith won the toss and chose to bat first, after which the Kangaroo team’s innings was reduced to 264 runs. In response, Team India put 267 runs on the scoreboard, due to which they won by four wickets.
Steve Smith played a stormy innings
Australia (IND vs AUS), who came to bat first after winning the toss, did not have a good start. Cooper Conley returned to the pavilion without opening his account. He gave India its first success by dismissing Mohammad Shami. After this, Steve Smith took charge and started scoring runs on the scoreboard. During this, he had a half-century partnership with Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne. Together with these two, he scored 50 and 56 runs respectively. However, during this time Travis Head lost his wicket while trying to play a big shot. He contributed 39 runs.
Australia’s innings ended at 264 runs
Marnus Labuschagne scored 29 runs, Jos English scored 11 runs, Glenn Maxwell scored 7 runs, Ben Dwarshiv scored 19 runs, Adam Zampa scored 7 runs and Nathan Ellis scored 10 runs. Apart from Steve Smith, Alex Carey’s bat rocked. He played a half-century innings by hitting a flurry of fours. He scored 61 runs in 57 balls, which included eight fours and a six. For India, Mohammed Shami took three wickets. While Varun Chakraborty and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets each. Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel took one wicket each.
Virat Kohli created a ruckus
Team India (IND vs AUS), who came out to bat in the reply innings, lost the wicket of opener Shubman Gill at a personal score of 30 runs. He was able to score only 8 runs in 11 balls. After a few overs, captain Rohit Sharma also returned to the pavilion. 28 runs came from his bat. After two wickets fell at a score of 43 runs, Virat Kohli took charge of the innings and made a half-century partnership with Shreyas Iyer. There was a partnership of 91 runs between the two for the third wicket.
India got victory
Virat Kohli scored 84 runs facing 98 balls. In the 42.4 over, Adam Zampa got him out at the hands of Ben Dwarshiv and gave India the fifth wicket. After this, Shreyas Iyer scored 45 runs, Axar Patel scored 27 runs KL Rahul scored 42, Ravindra Jadeja scored 2 and Hardik Pandya scored 28 runs to take India across the threshold of victory. With this, the Indian team (IND vs AUS) avenged its defeat at the hands of Australia in the final of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 after 471 days.