After the bowlers, the Indian team made it to the final of the Champions Trophy by defeating Australia by four wickets in the semi-finals with the strong performance of the batsmen led by Virat Kohli. The Indian team has reached the final remaining unbeaten in the tournament. In this match, Australia captain Steve Smith decided to bat first and scored 264 runs in 49.3 overs. While chasing the target, Kohli once again proved to be a chase master and scored 84 runs with the help of five fours in 98 balls, with the help of which India won the match by scoring 267 runs for six wickets in 48.1 overs.

India avenged the ODI World Cup defeat.

With this, India avenged its defeat in the final of the 2023 ODI World Cup against Australia. This is the third consecutive time that India has been successful in making it to the title match of the limited-overs format ICC tournament. India had earlier made it to the finals of the 2023 ODI World Cup, and 2024 T20 World Cup, and now it has also managed to reach the title match of the Champions Trophy. At the same time, Team India has reached the final of the Champions Trophy for the third consecutive time. Earlier, the team had also reached the finals of the 2013 and 2017 Champions Trophy.

India became the team to win the most semi-finals in ICC tournaments.

The Indian team has jointly achieved the most successful target of the knockout match of the Champions Trophy. Earlier, New Zealand had achieved a target of 265 runs against India in the knockout match of this tournament in 2000. At the same time, India chased the same target of runs against Bangladesh in 2017. With this, India has become the team to win the most semi-finals in ICC ODI tournaments. India has equaled Australia in this matter. Both India and Australia have won nine times out of 14 semi-final matches.

Kohli shines again while chasing.

India did not start well while chasing the target and lost two wickets for 43 runs. After this, Kohli along with Shreyas Iyer shared a 91-run partnership for the third wicket and took charge of India. However, Shreyas missed out on a half-century and was dismissed after scoring 45 runs with the help of three fours in 62 balls. Despite Shreyas's dismissal, Kohli remained at the crease and took India close to victory. Kohli also became the batsman to score more than 50 runs the most number of times in an ICC ODI tournament. He scored 50+ for the 24th time. Kohli also left behind the great batsman Sachin Tendulkar with this. Sachin had scored 50+ runs more than 23 times in 58 innings. At the same time, Kohli achieved another feat. He has become the second batsman to score more than 8000 runs in ODIs while chasing a target. With this, he joined the club of great batsman Sachin Tendulkar.

Virat missed century

Kohli was moving towards a century but lost his wicket while trying to play a big shot on Adam Zampa's ball. After Kohli's dismissal, KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya took charge. Hardik batted aggressively and brought India very close to victory. When the team needed to score six runs to win, Hardik got out while trying to play a big shot.

Rahul won by hitting a six.

Hardik got out after scoring 28 runs with the help of one four and three sixes in 24 balls. After Hardik's dismissal, KL Rahul gave the team victory by hitting a six off Maxwell's ball. With this, India has reached the final of the Champions Trophy for the second consecutive time. Earlier, the team was successful in reaching the title match of the Champions Trophy in 2017 as well. Rahul returned unbeaten after scoring 42 runs off 34 balls with the help of two fours and two sixes, while Jadeja also remained unbeaten after scoring two runs. For Australia, Nathan Ellis and Adam Zampa took two wickets each, while Ben Dwarshuis and Cooper Connolly got one wicket each.

Smith-Carey's brilliant innings

Earlier, Australia set a challenging target in front of India with the help of half-centuries from captain Steve Smith and Alex Carey. For Australia, Smith scored 73 runs off 96 balls and Alex Carey scored 61 runs off 57 balls. Shami gave India the first success by dismissing Connolly. After this, Travis Head tried to handle the team by playing some aggressive shots, but Varun Chakraborty gave India a big success by dismissing Head. After this, Smith formed a partnership with Marnus Labuschagne. Smith kept taking the innings forward from one end and also took care of the run rate. However, wickets kept falling at the other end. After Smith was out, Alex Carey took charge and batted aggressively.

Indian bowlers were successful in taking wickets in the last overs. When Carey was playing, it seemed that Australia would score around 300, but Indian bowlers were successful in making a comeback. The Australian team could not even play the full 50 overs.

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