Team India has made it to the finals of the Champions Trophy 2025. In the first semi -finals played in Dubai, the Indian team defeated Australia by 5 wickets and made it to the finals for the third consecutive time. Team India's victory stars Mohammed Shami and Virat Kohli, who played the biggest role in doing all the work of Australia with their strong performance. While Shami stopped Australia for 264 runs with 4 wickets, Kohli (84) may miss the century but he once again took the run chase command for Team India.

At Dubai International Stadium, the Indian team succeeded in defeating Australia in the knockout match of an ICC tournament after 14 years.

In the quarter -finals of the World Cup 2011, Team India defeated Australia to make it to the semi -finals and then won the title. This time Team India came close to the title and dropped Australia out of the tournament in the semi -finals. Also, Team India also made a hat -trick in the finals of this tournament for the third consecutive time (before 2013 and 2017).

Shami-Varun stopped with a big score

In this first semi -finals played on Tuesday 4 March, Australia performed strongly despite its half strength.

The Australian team, who had already lost many players, descended with 21 -year -old all -rounder Cooper Connole (0) but could not do anything special. But on the other hand, the Travis Head (39), which is proving to be the biggest threat to India from the other side, again batted and again in trouble, but Varun Chakraborty (2/49) also showed his amazing here and returned the pavilion here.

After this, captain Steve Smith (73) played a great half -century innings but Shami bowled him before the century and made India a comeback and shocked Australia's hopes of big score. Finally, Alex Carrie also once again played a fast innings and scored 61 runs.

But in the 48th over, Shreyas Iyer also run out of the possibility of 15-20 additional runs in Australia's score. Shami took 3 wickets while Ravindra Jadeja and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets for Team India.

Kohli again took over the command of the run chase

Captain Rohit Sharma also made a fast start for Team India, but Australia missed the opportunity to leave the catches twice in 2 consecutive overs. However, soon Shubman Gill was bowled by Ben Dwarashuis to give first success and then Rohit (28), who left the catch of Rohit (28), rectified the mistake by dismissing him in his first over.

In such a situation, the eyes were on Virat Kohli, who scored a century against Pakistan and won the team. Shreyas Iyer, who once again to do this work with Kohli, had a half -century partnership again.

Both of them had prepared the foundation of victory by handling Team India. Both together added 91 runs for the third wicket. During this, Kohli also scored his 73rd half -century. Akshar (27), who came after Shreyas (45) was dismissed, also carried the score forward with Kohli but Nathan Ellis bowled him and made the match exciting.

After this, Rahul and Virat shared a 47 -run partnership and confirmed the victory. Although Kohli missed the century, but then Hardik (28) and Rahul (42 unbeaten) raided the team and won the team.