By Kaif - Feb 24, 2025 02:08 PM
List of Virat Kohli Player of the Match Awards against Pakistan in ICC events: Team India's King Virat Kohli has been the match winner of the Indian team for more than a decade and a half. This star batsman has achieved many big milestones with his batting. Kohli has left a tremendous mark in his entire career. But his bat is especially different against Pakistan.
Against the biggest rival of the Indian team, Pakistan, King Kohli takes on his Virat form and takes rest only after leading the team to victory. In the ICC tournament, Pakistan has become Virat Kohli's favorite opponent. Where he not only plays brilliantly but also emerges as the hero of the match. So let us tell you in this article the list of occasions when Virat Kohli became the Player of the Match in matches played against Pakistan in ICC events.
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Virat Kohli played a wonderful innings for the Indian cricket team against Pakistan in the 2012 T20 World Cup. In the match played in Colombo, King Kohli played an unbeaten innings of 78 runs in 61 balls, hitting 8 fours and 2 sixes. Team India won by 8 wickets while chasing Pakistan's target of 129 runs in this match.
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In the ICC ODI World Cup 2015, a big match was played between India and Pakistan in Adelaide. In this match, India scored 300 runs for 7 wickets while playing first on the basis of Virat Kohli's brilliant innings of 107 runs in 126 balls. In response, Pakistan collapsed at a score of 224 runs and Team India won by 76 runs. Kohli was chosen as the Player of the Match for his brilliant innings.
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Virat Kohli also played a memorable innings against Pakistan in the 2016 T20 World Cup played in India. In the match played at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, Pakistan scored 118 runs in 18 overs. In response to which, with the help of Virat Kohli's unbeaten innings of 55* runs in 37 balls, India won a spectacular victory by 6 wickets.
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The memories of the match played between India and Pakistan in the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 cannot go out of anyone's mind. In this match played in Melbourne, Pakistan batted first and scored 159 runs. After which Team India achieved the target on the basis of Virat Kohli's historic innings. King Kohli took the team out of a difficult situation and won by 4 wickets by playing an unbeaten innings of 82 runs in 53 balls.
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Team India's star batsman Virat Kohli played another match-winning innings against Pakistan. In the match played in Dubai in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, Virat scored an unbeaten 100 runs with the help of 7 fours in 111 balls and helped India achieve the target of 242 runs for just 4 wickets.
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