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Sports News. Team India’s journey to victory in the World Cup-2023 continues. In the 21st match of the tournament, Rohit brigade defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets. Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. After being invited to bat first, the Kiwi team scored 273 runs in 50 overs. Team India achieved the target of 274 runs by losing 6 wickets in 47.5 overs. After 2003, Team India has defeated New Zealand in the World Cup.
Virat Kohli and fast bowler Mohammad Shami were the heroes of Team India’s victory. Kohli played a brilliant innings of 95 runs. There, Shami, who played his first match in this World Cup, took 5 wickets. Rohit Sharma scored 48 runs, Gill scored 26 runs, Shreyas Iyer scored 33 runs and KL Rahul scored 27 runs. Suryakumar got out without opening an account. He ran out. Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten on 39 and Shami scored 1 run.
Kiwi team’s innings
Despite Daryl Mitchell’s century and his huge partnership with Rachin Ravindra, India bowled out New Zealand for 273 thanks to Mohammed Shami’s five-wicket haul. Mitchell played an innings of 130 runs off 127 balls with the help of five sixes and nine fours. He added 159 runs for the third wicket with Ravindra (75 runs, 87 balls, six fours, one six). Shami was the most successful bowler for India, taking five wickets for the third time in his career for 54 runs. Left arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav proved costly.
India go to the top of #CWC23 points table with a brilliant win in Dharamsala 🎉#CWC23 | #INDvNZ pic.twitter.com/lLCp1okFPG
— ICC (@ICC) October 22, 2023
The New Zealand batsmen looked under pressure
New Zealand’s batsmen were under pressure for the first time throughout the tournament. In front of India’s accurate bowling, the team could score only 68 runs in the last 13 overs. Both openers Devon Conway (00) and Will Young (17) had gone to the pavilion by the score of 19. After Conway, Jasprit Bumrah bowled the first over of the innings as a maiden, Mohammad Siraj bowled forward short leg. And played in the hands of Shreyas Iyer. Young opened his and his team’s account by hitting Siraj for a boundary in the second over. He also hit two fours off Bumrah but played Mohammed Shami’s delivery over the wickets.
Ravindra hits two fours on Shami
Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell then took over the innings. Both increased the run speed. Ravindra hit Shami for two fours but was lucky to get a personal score of 12 when Ravindra Jadeja dropped his catch at point off the fast bowler. Mitchell hit Shami for a boundary in the 13th over to take the team’s score past 50 runs. Both Ravindra and Mitchell hit Kuldeep Yadav for sixes in the 19th over. Mitchell also hit a long six off Kuldeep’s next over that hit the roof of the press box. The team’s century of runs was completed in the 21st over.
Ravindra completed his half century
Ravindra completed his half-century with a 56-ball one off Kuldeep while Mitchell reached the 50-run mark with a single off Siraj. Siraj LBW to Ravindra on the score of 61 runs. Out but after taking help from DRS, the decision went in favor of the batsman as the ball went outside the leg side. On 69, Mitchell also found life when Bumrah took an easy catch off Kuldeep at long off and the ball went for four. However, in the next over, Ravindra Shami’s delivery was caught by Shubman Gill at long on, ending the partnership with a big century. He hit six fours and a six in his innings of 87 balls.
Kuldeep waved the ball in the air and gave the catch to Rohit
Mitchell completed his fifth century in 100 balls off Bumrah. Glenn Phillips hit a six off Siraj in the 44th over to end the boundary drought in 40 balls, but in the next over, Kuldeep waved the ball in the air and gave an easy catch to Rohit. He scored 23 runs. Mark Chapman (06) was also caught by Kohli on the boundary while trying to play a big shot off Bumrah’s ball.
While Shami uprooted Mitchell Santner’s (01) off-stump with a precise yorker and hit Matt Henry (01) on the leg. 00) on the next ball. Uprooted the stump. In the last over, Mitchell hit consecutive balls from Shami for sixes and fours but was then caught by Kohli. Lucky Ferguson (01) was run out on the last ball of the innings.
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