India vs Australia Semifinal LIVE SCORE, Champions Trophy 2025: Mohammed Shami took three wickets while Varun Chakaravarthy chipped with two scalps as India restricted Australia to 264 all out in in 49.3 overs in the first semifinal of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Dubai on Tuesday. While Chakaravarthy took the big wicket of Travis Head, Shami got rid of big-hitting Steve Smith for 73. Alex Carey too chipped in with a crucial 31.
Mohammed Shami dropped Travis head’s catch at 0.
Copper Conolly was dismissed at 0
Australia won the toss and opted to bat first.
Travis Head dismissed for 39 off Varun Chakaravarthy
Mohammed Shami gets Steve Smith for 73
Australia all out for 264
Rohit Sharma dropped by Cooper Conolly at 13
India and Australia have played 151 ODIs against each other. Out of the them, India won 57 matches while losing 84. 10 games ended in no result. In Champions Trophy, India and 2-1 head-to-head record against Australia. One game ended in a tie.
The last time India and Australia met in the knockout stages of an ICC ODI tournament was during the 50 over World Cup 2023 Final in India. In that match, Rohit Sharma’s men lost by six wickets after putting on just 240 runs on the board.
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India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
Australia: Cooper Conolly, Travis Head, Steven Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha
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OUTTTT!!!!! Rohit Sharma tries to sweep Cooper Conolly hard, misses the ball and the ball hits the pad. Rohit goes for a review. TV replays show its out. Sigh of relief for Conolly as he had dropped Rohit at 13 earlier. IND 43/2 (8)
OUTTTTT!!!!!! Shubman Gill plays on a Ben Dwarshuis delivery to his stumps. Virat Kohli joins Rohit Sharma in the middle. IND 30/1 (5)
DROPPEDDDD!!!! Cooper Conolly drops Rohit Sharma at backward point at 13. What a moment in the game and how costly it would be from Australian’s point of view? AUS 15/0 (2)
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill walk in the middle. Ben Dwarshuis to open the attack for Australia.
The wicket is better than the last game, not much spin. We need to start well. If we play sensible cricket in the first 10 overs, then there won’t be any issues. Smith and Labuschagne were batting nicely and I tried to attack the stumps. Luckily we were able to contain the runs and picked a few wickets as well.
Hardik Pandya gets the final wicket of Adam Zampa as Australia are all out of 264 in the 50th over.
Six and OUTTT!!!! Mohammed Shami gets his third as Nathan Ellis is caught by Virat Kohli. AUS 262/9 (49)
OUTTTT!!!! Shreyas Iyer hits the bulls eye as Alex Carey completes the first run but falls short on his second. Carey gets the big wicket of 61. AUS 250/8 (47.3)
OUTTT!!!! It’s Varun Chakaravarthy again. Ben Dwarshuis hits Varun straight to Shreyas Iyer. AUS 242/7 (46)
Fifty for Alex Carey. The Australian completes his half-century in 48 balls. AUS 227/6 (43)
Glenn Maxwell comes and goes. The Mad Max smashes a huge six off Axar Patel before being cleaned up in the next ball as he misses a straight delivery. Two big wickets for India at a crucial stage. AUS 206/6 (38)
OUTTTTT!!!!! Mohammed Shami gets the big wicket of Steve Smith, who departs for 73. Shami bowls a low full-toss as Smith dances doen the wicket but misses to see his off-stump shattered. Relief for India. AUS 199/5 (37)
OUTTTT!!! It’s Ravindra Jadeja once again as Josh Inglis hits straight to Virat Kohli. Inglis goes back with his head nodding. AUS 144/4 (27)
OUTTTTT!!!! Marnus Labuschagne is trapped in front by Ravindra Jadeja. The Australian goes on backfoot, misses the line and the ball hits the pad. AUS 110/3 (22.3)
Mohammed Shami is back in the field after a brief treatment on his foot and Rohit Sharma straightaway brings him into the attack. Steve Smith hits straight at Shami as the bowler brings out his left hand on the line of the ball. But Shami has dropped it. Twice in this match, Shami has dropped in his follow-through. AUS 106/2 (22)
There is a conversation between Ravindra Jadeja and the umpire because of a tape in the left hand of the Indian bowler. A couple of senior players also join in before Jadeja removes it. It was a taping in the bowling hand of Jadeja. AUS 95/2 (19)
Looks like Axar Patel has hurt his neck while fielding the ball hit by Marnus Labuschagne. The physios are out in the middle to check on Axar. The left-arm spinner is back on his feet and raring to go now. AUS 80/2 (14.5)
The dismissal of Travis Head has slowed the run flow of Australia. Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith. The last boundary for Australia came 22 balls back. AUS 72/2 (13)
OUTTTT!!!!! It’s Varun Chakaravarthy once again who strikes in his first over. Travis Head makes some room for himself by going on the backfoot and looked to loft over the top, but Shubman Gill makes a good ground to take the catch. AUS 54/2 (8.2)
Another injury scare for Mohammed Shami? The Indian pacer was seen having his foot treated by the physio. AUS 47/1 (7)
After a slow start, Travis Head has taken the pace with a hattrick of fours off Mohammed Shami. AUS 36/1 (6)
Mohammed Shami thinks he has got Cooper Conolly. The umpire gives it not out, but India were quick to go upstairs. TV replays shows Conolly has edged behind. AUS 4/1 (3)
Early reprieve for Travis Head as the ball doesn’t stick on Mohammed Shami’s hands. Two excellent overs by India to start with. AUS 3/0 (2)
It’s game time in Dubai. Travis Head and Cooper Connolly are at the crease. Mohammed Shami will open the attack for India.
The Indian teams will be playing black armbands in the memory of late Padmakar Shivalkar who passed away on Monday. He was one of the finest left-arm spinners India has ever produced.
With this loss, India have now lost 14 consecutive tosses in a row. Time for National Anthems. Australia go first, followed by India.
Both Rohit Sharma and Steve Smith walk out in the middle for the coin toss. Australia win the toss and opt to bat. Another toss loss for Rohit. Australia make two changes with Cooper Conolly and Tanveer Sangha coming in for Matthew Short and Spencer Johnson.
The weather is p in Dubai with gentle breeze blowing across the ground. The pitch looks dry and very cracked. Brace yourselves for a huge contest in Dubai.
Ricky Ponting has his views on points ahead of India vs Australia semifinal.
In the three matches so far, Indian spinners have taken a total of 16 wickets. Varun Chakaravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav have taken five wickets each while Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja took four and two wickets respectively.
Varun Chakaravarthy impressed on his Champions Trophy debut with a five-wicket haul. Will India continue with him or bring in Harshit Rana again?
Travis Head brings out his ‘A’ game whenever he faces India. He has been a thorn in the flesh for India and was also the hero for the Australian team on November 19, 2023, in Ahmedabad.
Australia might play Jake Fraser-McGurk, who might come into the playing XI replacing Matthew Short, who has been ruled out.
In the last two years, a lot has changed in the Australian team. Nearly, half of the players who won the 2023 World Cup final against India are out with injuries this time. Moreover, the author of “Nothing more satisfying than silencing 1.3 lakh people” is also out of the tournament with injury.
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Speaking on his YouTube channel, Chopra said, “I personally feel toss is an advantage. We haven’t won a single toss thus far. Rohit has sworn that he won’t win the toss and won’t lose the match. It sounds alright, but toss is a problem. Australia won the toss in Ahmedabad and, against the popular belief, they decided to bowl first. That was their thinking but toss played a critical part,”
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Speaking on his Hindi YouTube channel, Ashwin said, “New ball and give it to Varun and ask him to bowl over the stumps to Travis Head,” he said. “Travis Head shows all his three stumps and then clears his leg and hit it over the field. Varun Chakravarthy, with a new ball, might give India an edge. It will be a mouth-watering contest.”
IND vs AUS LIVE SCORE: Speaking at a pre-match press conference, Smith said, “Yeah it’s been it’s been fun captaining these boys the last couple of weeks, obviously our first objective was to make the semifinals. We’ve done that and coming up against a good Indian side, so yeah, we’re up for the challenge tomorrow and we’re excited,”
IND vs AUS LIVE SCORE: Speaking to ANI, Badruddin Siddiqui said, “Australian cricket team is playing with inexperienced bowling but still is a great team… Indian team is also performing well… The combination of batters and quality spinners in the Indian team is great…”
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Speaking to India Today, Gavaskar said, “I have always said, if you want only slim guys, then you should go to a modelling competition and pick all the models. It’s not about that,” Gavaskar told India Today.
“It’s about how well you can play cricket. We talked about Sarfaraz Khan-he was vilified for a long time because he was on the heavier side. But if he scores 150 for India in a Test match and follows it up with another two or three fifty-plus scores, then what’s the issue? I don’t think size has anything to do with it. It’s your mental strength-whether you can last the distance-that’s the most important thing. Bat well, bat for long, and score runs,” the former India cricketer added
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: The stadium has hosted 61 ODIs, with teams batting first securing 23 wins and chasing sides winning 36. Two matches did not produce any results.
India have played three matches at this venue in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and won all of those. In total, India have played 9 matches here and won 8 while one match (with Afghanistan) ended in a tie. Australia, on the other hand, have played 5 ODIs here and won 4.
IND vs AUS LIVE SCORE: Speaking to India Today, Gavaskar said, “On this surface, yes, because Australia don’t seem to have the kind of spinning attack, apart from the fact that they are missing out on key players like Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc,” Gavaskar told India Today.
“Their batting is good. The batting is very aggressive. The ideal thing would be for India maybe to chase, rather than having Australia chase,” he added.
IND vs AUS LIVE SCORE: Speaking to ESPNCricinfo, Manjrekar said, “Somebody get Travis Head out, whoever that is. He is one guy that India will really want back in the dressing room very quickly. That is going to be the moment for me. Travis Head,”
“But, as we know, Travis has stood up in many of those in the past. And, you know, he looked in great touch the other night against Afghanistan. I’m sure he’s going to be looking to come out here and play the same way he’s played for a long time, with good intent, good aggression,” he added
IND vs AUS LIVE SCORE: In a post on X, Chopra said, “A fresh pitch for #IndvAus semifinal. We Shall find out the real meaning of ‘The more we change, the more we remain the same’. Whole square at the Dubai International Stadium is bone-dry and bereft of grass. Going a little bit of left or right won’t make any difference. Mast hoke so jao. Just wish for Rohit to win the toss-and bat first. That will be Game. Set. Match,”
IND vs AUS LIVE SCORE: In a post on X, former India cricketer Madan Lal wrote, “Semifinal India start favourite but Australia is one who always surprised you.They are tough and never give up”
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Speaking to JioHotstar, Rayudu said, “The importance of a No. 4 batsman is evident here. You need someone to play such crucial innings when the top order fails, especially on challenging surfaces that are not easy to bat on. That’s where No. 4 and No. 5 become critical in an ODI game,”
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla while speaking to ANI said, “…Nobody knows what would happen in cricket but whenever India and Australia have faced each other, spectators have witnessed a fantastic match. Both teams are very strong. But the wickets in Dubai and Pakistan are very different from each other. Fast bowling has an advantage on Pakistan’s pitch and you can even bat well there. But in Dubai, India has an advantage. We have 4 world-class spinners – Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy. You would face them for 40 overs. So, India has a 100% advantage here. They have Travis Head who has always scored against India. They have Adam Zampa. But India has an advantage. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are in good form…”
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Speaking after the match, Rohit said, “He just showed what he’s capable of. Now it is up to us to think and see how we can get that combination right. Obviously, look, he got a game. He did everything that was asked for. I said it at the post-match as well that he’s got something different about him. When he gets it right, he knocks people over and he takes five-five wickets. It is very tempting to think about what to do, which is a good headache to have. We’ll just try and assess. We just want to go back and think about what the Australian batting lineup will look like and how we can try and see what kind of bowling options will work against them,”
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Under Rohit’s captaincy, India have played 54 ODI matches and won 40 of those. The Men in Blue lost 12 matches, one match ended in a draw and one ODI produced no results. This means Rohit Sharma has a winning percentage of 74.07, the highest by any Indian.
Not only that, but the winning percentage is also the second-best in the history of cricket. The top position belongs to Clive Lloyd, who led the West Indies to two World Cup wins. Lloyd has a winning percentage of 76.19. Under his captaincy, the West Indies played 84 matches and won 64.
The third position belongs to Faf du Plessis. The South African captain led his team in 39 matches and won 28. The next Indian captain in ODI cricket is Virat Kohli (68.42%). Under Kohli’s leadership, India played 95 ODI matches and won 65. Kohli is in the seventh position overall.
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: Speaking at a pre-match press conference, Rohit said, “Look, the game just got over now. We really need to think, even if we want to play four spinners, how we can squeeze four spinners. If we don’t, then we don’t. Whatever works for us in terms of the bowling options, we will try and do that,”
“The reason I say that is because the conditions here are – we are very much aware of the conditions, and we know exactly what works and what doesn’t work. So, we’ll just give it a day. We’ll think about it, what is the right combination to go with. But it is tempting,” the Indian captain added.
India vs Australia LIVE SCORE: The Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the UAE is generally known for its balanced nature, offering something for both batters and bowlers. The pitch tends to be good for batting, with decent pace and bounce. However, the ground has large boundaries, making it challenging to clear the ropes consistently.
As the match progresses, the pitch may slow down a bit, offering some assistance to spinners, especially in the middle overs.
India have played two matches at this venue in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and won both while batting first. Historically, though, the stadium has seen more winners while chasing.
