Virat Kohli record : ICC Champions Trophy 2025 has reached its final stages. World champions Australia and Team India will be face to face in the first semi-finals. The match will be played in Dubai. After winning three consecutive matches in the group phase, the Indian team would now want to enter the final by winning the fourth consecutive win. However, it will not be so easy for Team India to defeat Australia.
In the match against Australia, while the fans are expecting a great performance from all the players of Team India, everyone will be eyeing Virat Kohli. Kohli has proved that he has returned to form by scoring a century against Pakistan. Now Indian fans are expecting a big innings against Australia with Virat Kohli’s bat. If King Kohli scored 61 runs against Australia, he will create a new history.
Kohli is on the verge of creating history
Virat Kohli is the highest run -scorer in ICC tournaments’ knockout matches. So far, 939 runs have been scored from his bat in ICC knockout matches. During this time his average was 52.16. If Kohli scored 61 runs, he will complete 1000 runs in ICC knockout matches. He will be the first batsman in the world to do such a feat. So far no batsman has achieved this feat.
Players scoring the most runs in ICC knockout matches
- Virat Kohli – 939 runs
- Rohit Sharma – 780 runs
- Ricky Ponting – 731 runs
- Sachin Tendulkar – 657 runs
- Kumar Sangakkara – 595 runs
- Ken Williamson – 546 runs
Virat Kohli’s performance
Virat Kohli scored 22 runs against Bangladesh in the first match of the 2025 Champions Trophy. He then played a brilliant innings of 100 runs against Pakistan and returned unbeaten. However, he could not perform anything special in the third match. He had scored only 11 runs against New Zealand, now he would be expected to perform better.
