The ominous contact of the India batters would not appear to be ending anytime quickly as they proceed to torment opposition bowlers with their magnificent strokeplay. The newest sufferer to their onslaught are the Netherlands as India flexed their batting muscle mass on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on the festive event of Diwali to script an elusive ODI World Cup record.
The top five batters of India – Shubman Gill (51 off 32 balls), Rohit Sharma (61 off 54 balls), Virat Kohli (51 off 56 balls), Shreyas Iyer (fifty plus) and KL Rahul (fifty plus) made the many of the batting circumstances on the Chinnaswamy and aggregated fifty plus totals to create all-time World Cup record. It is the primary occasion when the top-five batters of a workforce have all racked up fifty-plus scores in a World Cup sport.
The carnage began off with Shubman and Rohit denting the Dutch assault entrance. Shubman was fast to get off the blocks as he reached his fifty off simply 30 balls. His associate and India captain Rohit took 44 balls to succeed in his half-century and recorded his one hundredth fifty in worldwide cricket.
Shubman’s knock was studded with three fours and 4 sixes. It got here at a strike fee of 159.37 and set the tone for the remaining batters to comply with. Unfortunately, for the India followers, not one of the top-three batters i.e. Rohit, Shubman and Virat managed to succeed in the three-figure mark regardless of getting off to outstanding begins.
Virat, specifically, was marching in direction of his fiftieth ODI century and will have surpassed Sachin Tendulkar to turn into the batter with essentially the most ODI centuries ever however the 35-year-old missed a flatter one from Roelof van der Merwe that skidded after pitching and disturbed the furnishings. Virat’s knock included five fours and a most as he paced his innings at a strike fee of 91.07.
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