The first semi -final match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was played on Tuesday, with the Indian team with Australia (IND vs AUS). In this clash at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, Steve Smith won the toss and selected the first batting, after which the Kangaroo team's innings was reduced to 264 runs. In response, Team India scored 267 runs on the scoreboard, which led to their hands by four wickets.

Steve Smith played stormy innings

The Australia team, who came to bat first after winning the toss, did not have a good start.

Cooper Conlie returned to Pavilian without opening an account. He gave India the first success by dismissing Mohammed Shami. After this Steve Smith took the front and started scoring runs on the scoreboard. During this time he had a half -century partnership with Travis Head and Marnas Labushen. Together with these two, he scored 50 and 56 runs respectively. However, during this time, Travis Head lost his wicket in the process of playing a big shot. He contributed 39 runs.

Australia's innings limited for 264 runs

Marnas Labushen scored 29 runs, Jose English 11 runs, Glenn Maxwell 7 runs, Ben Davarswis 19 runs, Adam Zampa scored 7 runs and Nathan Ellis scored 10 runs. Apart from Steve Smith, Alex Carrie's bat rocked. He played a half -century innings with a shield of fours. His bat scored 61 runs in 57 balls, including eight fours and a six. Mohammed Shami took three wickets for India. While Varun Chakraborty and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets each. Hardik Pandya and Akshar Patel achieved one success each.

Virat Kohli cut a ruckus

Team India (IND vs AUS) lost the wicket of opener Shubman Gill on a personal score of 30 runs to bat in the counter -innings. He was able to score 8 runs in 11 balls. Captain Rohit Sharma also returned to the pavilion after some overs. His bat scored 28 runs. After two wickets fell on the score of 43 runs, Virat Kohli took over the innings and had a half -century partnership with Shreyas Iyer. There was a 91 -run partnership between the two for the third wicket.

India won

Virat Kohli scored 84 runs, facing 98 balls. In 42.4 overs, Adam Jampa gave him the fifth wicket to India by dismissing him at the hands of Ben Dwarashiv. After this, Shreyas Iyer scored 45 runs, Akshar Patel 27 runs and KL Rahul 42, Ravindra Jadeja 2 and Hardik Pandya scored 28 runs to bring India across the threshold of victory. With this, the Indian team took avenged the defeat of Australia in the final of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 after 471 days.