India started their Champions Trophy 2025 campaign with a dominant win over Bangladesh in Dubai on Thursday. Mohammed Shami’s five-wicket haul and Shubman Gill’s unbeaten century led India to a comfortable six-wicket victory, chasing down Bangladesh’s total of 228. The performance saw multiple records broken, setting a strong tone for India’s title pursuit.

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• India defeated Bangladesh by six wickets in their opening Champions Trophy match.
• Mohammed Shami took 5 wickets for 53 runs, marking his first match-winning performance since recovering from ankle surgery.
• Shami became India’s most successful bowler in 50-over ICC events with 60 wickets, surpassing Zaheer Khan’s 59 wickets.
• Shami is now the fastest to 200 ODI wickets, achieving it in just 5,126 balls.
• This was Shami’s sixth five-wicket haul in ODIs, the most by any Indian bowler.
• Shami holds the record for the most five-wicket hauls in ICC events (5).
• Shubman Gill scored an unbeaten 101, leading India to victory, and became the fastest to score 8 ODI centuries in 51 innings.
• Gill broke the previous record held by Shikhar Dhawan for the fastest to 8 hundreds.
• Virat Kohli took his 156th ODI catch, setting a new Indian record for the most catches by an Indian fielder.
• Rohit Sharma’s 41-run knock helped him become the second fastest to 11,000 ODI runs, reaching the milestone in 261 innings.