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In the last match of the league stage of the World Cup-2023, Team India defeated the Netherlands by 160 runs. After winning the toss and batting first, Team India scored 410 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 50 overs. In reply, the Netherlands team could only score 250 runs. This is Team India’s 9th win in a row in this World Cup. He is at the top of the points table with 18 points. Team India has been undefeated in the tournament. Now he will face New Zealand in the semi-final. This match will be played on November 15.
KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer were the gems of Team India’s victory. Both scored brilliant hundreds. Rahul played an innings of 102 runs and Iyer played an unbeaten innings of 128 runs. There was a partnership of 208 runs between the two for the fourth wicket. Captain Rohit Sharma scored 61, Shubman Gill scored 51, Virat Kohli scored 51 runs. Talking about the bowlers, Bumrah, Siraj, Jadeja and Kuldeep took 2 wickets each. Kohli and Rohit also took one wicket each.
Such was the Indian innings
The Indian team scored 122 runs in the last 10 overs, making them the third team after South Africa and New Zealand to score more than 400 runs in the tournament. This was Iyer’s fourth ODI century and first in the World Cup. He came to the crease when Gill and Rohit had put on a 71-ball 100 for the first wicket and India were heading for a big score.
The 28-year-old right-handed batsman played his role very well and Rahul got a good partner. The biggest attraction of Iyer’s batting was his aversion to risk. They usually play spin well, but their weakness against left-arm bowlers is evident, which can be clearly seen from their strike rate.
Iyer scored one and two off Rolf van der Merwe, targeting Aryan Dutt and pacers Paul van Meekren and Logan van Beek. At Van Meekeren, he hit two massive sixes over 80m long on and cover. He completed his 100 runs by taking a run off mid-off pacer Bass de Leide, for which he played just 84 balls.
Rahul was giving them good support at the start of his innings by rotating the strike, then he showed his agility by hitting Van Meekeren for a six over mid-wicket to bring up his seventh ODI century. Rahul completed his century in just 62 balls by hitting two consecutive sixes over the fast bowler de Leede at mid-wicket. It is also the fastest century by an Indian batsman in an ODI World Cup.
Rohit, Gill and Kohli made things easy for Iyer and Rahul with fifties. On a bouncy pitch from Chinnaswamy, the 24-year-old Gill hit fast bowlers Van Beek and Dutt for a six each, with the second hitting the roof of the stadium.
Rohit took some time to settle at the crease as he looked a little uncomfortable with Van Beek’s deliveries. But after that they started tuning the bowlers of Netherlands. But the wicket partnership was broken before both were dismissed but then Kohli and Iyer put on 71 runs in 66 balls. Kohli looked in good form to reach his 50th ODI century, but van der Merwe dashed Indian fans’ hopes by bowling him.
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