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Virat Kohli tied Mohammad Azharuddin’s file for many ODI catches for India together with his 156th catch within the 2025 Champions Trophy towards Bangladesh.
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Virat Kohli created historical past on Thursday by going equal with Mohammad Azharuddin for probably the most catches for India in all ODI cricket throughout the 2025 Champions Trophy conflict towards Bangladesh in Dubai.
He achieved the file on the fourth ball of the forty third over. Mohammed Shami bowled it gradual and huge exterior the off-stump, to which Jaker Ali tried to again away and hoick it to the leg-side, solely to get a giant toe-edge over long-on, the place Kohli settled underneath and caught it with ease.
This was his 156th catch in ODIs, joint-highest with Azharuddin. The duo are properly away from the following three within the checklist — Sachin Tendulkar (140), Rahul Dravid (124) and Suresh Raina (102). Total in worldwide cricket, they’re solely behind Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene (218) and Australia’s Ricky Ponting (160).
Kohli has a superb probability to move Ponting within the 2025 Champions Trophy, with India assured to play not less than two extra matches, towards Pakistan and New Zealand within the group stage. In the event that they qualify for the following spherical, they’ll get one other match, the semi-final, and compete for the ultimate.
Jaker’s wicket off Shami carried much more context. It was Shami’s two hundredth in ODI, making him the quickest Indian to that milestone and serving to him go previous Zaheer Khan as the best wicket-taker for the nation in ICC white-ball tournaments.
Jaker received out for 68 (114) however he was additionally dropped for zero by Indian skipper Rohit Sharma at slips off Axar Patel’s bowling when the all-rounder was on a hat-trick. Had that catch been taken, it could have created equally huge information as Patel would have grow to be the primary Indian to take a Champions Trophy hat-trick.
Coming to the match, Bangladesh have been at 35/5 earlier than Patel’s hat-trick ball and earlier than his wicket, he managed to place up 154 runs with Towhid Hridoy to save lots of the Tigers from embarrassment. Hridoy went on to attain a combating century that took Bangladesh to a good rating of 228/10 within the first innings.
Shami went on to choose two extra wickets to make it a five-wicket haul on his Champions Trophy debut, Harshit Rana additionally contributed three wickets whereas Patel ended the day with determine of (2/43).