During the Champions Trophy 2025 match against Australia in Dubai on Tuesday, Indian cricket team star batsman Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s mark. Comfortable against the Australian bowlers, Kohli was able to notch a gritty half-century. This knock allowed him to surpass Sachin’s 23 runs in ICC ODI games (24) and have the most 50-plus scores. Rohit Sharma, India captain, is now third with 18 points; Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara has 17 points. With 16 50-plus runs, former Australia captain Ricky Ponting ranks fifth on the prestigious list.
Most ICC ODI Tour 50-plus points
24—Virat Kohli (53)
23 – Sachin Tendulkar (58 innings)
18 – Rohit Sharma (42 innings) is about
17 – Kumar Sangakkara (56 runs)
16: Having played 60 innings, Ricky Ponting
From 2013 to 2017, Kohli went past Shikhar Dhawan’s 701 runs in ten games as an ex-India opener. With 665 runs in 13 games from 1998 to 2004, Sourav Ganguly, the former India captain, is India’s third-highest goal-scorer in the tournament.
The 36-year-old hit the milestone while India was going after 265. In his seventeenth Champions Trophy match for India, Kohli reached the goal.
Kohli scored a match-winning hundred against perennial rivals Pakistan in Dubai and has now brought his form into the knockout stage with a finely made knock following the first dismissals of openers Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma in the tournament thus far.
Returning to the game, Australia captain Steve Smith top-scored for his side with a knock of 73 runs; Alex Carey hit 61 runs before India bowled the ODI world champions down for 264 in 49.3 balls.
Ravindra Jadeja and Varun Chakravarthy got two wickets each for India, Mohammed Shami three.