Sunil Gavaskar on Virat Kohli Century: The high-voltage match of ICC Champions Trophy 2025 was played on 23 February. This match was played between India and Pakistan at Dubai International Cricket Ground in Dubai. Which was the fifth match of this Champions Trophy 2025. In this match, Indian team's star batsman Virat Kohli made a comeback by scoring a brilliant century. With this century, Kohli shut the mouth of his critics. Now former Indian team and legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has praised Virat Kohli a lot.

Gavaskar praised Virat Kohli a lot

Sunil Gavaskar praised Virat Kohli a lot and said that this century was not just for personal record, but for the victory of Team India. Talking to Sports Tak, Gavaskar said, "You look at Virat Kohli, he was only thinking about the victory of the team. When Axar Patel came to the crease, he gave the strike to Kohli, because the opportunity to score a century does not come every day. Virat worked very hard in this innings and he deserved this century."

Kohli created history

During this innings against Pakistan, Virat Kohli made another big record in his name. He became the fastest batsman to complete 14,000 runs in ODI cricket. Before him, only Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara have been able to achieve this feat.

Virat Kohli has won the Player of the Match award a total of 5 times against Pakistan in ICC tournaments. Before this, no other player has won the Player of the Match award more than three times against the same opponent in an ICC tournament.

Kohli's stats against Pakistan in ICC tournaments

78 runs, T20 World Cup 2012
32 runs*, T20 World Cup 2014
107 runs, ICC World Cup 2015
55 runs*, T20 World Cup 2016
81 runs, Champions Trophy 2017
77 runs*, ICC World Cup 2019
57 runs, T20 World Cup 2021
82 runs*, T20 World Cup 2022
100 runs*, ICC World Cup 2025