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Virat Kohli aced yet another run chase as India defeated Australia by four wickets on Tuesday to storm into the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. Kohli struck 84 off 98 deliveries, collecting five fours in a knock that was largely dominated by ones and twos and frequent rotation of strike, helping India recover from a shaky start in their chase of the 265-run target set by Australia and win with four wickets and nearly two overs to spare .
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Besides Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (45) and KL Rahul (42 not out) also chipped in with valuable knocks, the latter hitting the winning six in the first delivery of the penultimate over. And senior pacer Mohammed Shami had played a key role in helping India bowl Australia out for 264 earlier in the day.
Shami was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3/48 while Ravindra Jadeja (2/40) and Varun Chakravarthy (2/49) collected a couple of wickets each. For the Aussies, skipper Steve Smith led from the front with a knock of 73 after opting to bat while Alex Carey played a key role in steering them past 250 with a handy knock of 61 off 57 balls.
Before we turn our attention to the second semi-final, between South Africa and New Zealand in Lahore on Wednesday, we revisit some of the records broken and milestones achieved in our statistical round-up of the India-Australia clash:
Impact Shorts
More Shorts— Rohit Sharma became the first captain to reach the final of all four major ICC events . Rohit has now led the Indian team into the final of the Champions Trophy after the T20 World Cup (2024) as well as the ICC World Cup and World Test Championship (both in 2023).
— Virat Kohli broke another of Sachin Tendulkar’s records on Tuesday – that of most fifty-plus scores in ICC ODI tournaments. Kohli now has 24 fifty-plus scores compared to Tendulkar’s 23. Rohit is third on the list with 18.
— Kohli also became only the second batter after Tendulkar to score 8,000 or more runs in ODI run chases. Tendulkar leads the list with 8,720 runs while Kohli is second on the list with 8,063 runs at an average of 64.50. Rohit is also third in this list with 6,115 runs (average: 49.71).
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— Kohli also moved past Ricky Ponting to the second spot in the list of players with most catches as a fielder in ODIs. Kohli now has 161 – one more than the former Australia captain – after collecting two catches in Tuesday’s semi-final. Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene leads the list with 218 catches.
— India have now lost 14 consecutive tosses in ODIs , with the drought stretching all the way back to the ICC World Cup final against Australia in Ahmedabad.
— It’s the 11th consecutive toss lost by Rohit in the 50-over format — the joint-second-most by a captain in ODIs alongside Netherlands’ Peter Borren (2011 to 2013). West Indies legend Brian Lara leads the list of most ODI tosses lost by a captain, having lost 12 of them between October 1998 and May 1999.
— KL Rahul went past 3,000 ODI runs during his unbeaten 42 off 34 deliveries.
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