India ensured that they gave followers at Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium and people watching at dwelling a Diwali to keep in mind, beating the Netherlands by 160 runs of their final group stage match of the 2023 ODI World Cup on Sunday.
Electing to bat first, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave India a blistering begin, with the previous but once more negating the brand new ball impact by sweeping Aryan Dutt for 2 fours within the opening over of the match.
The Indian skipper, who was praised by head coach Rahul Dravid within the pre-match press convention for his explosive batting towards the brand new ball on Saturday, continued to go after the Netherlands bowling carting them to fours and sixes to all elements of the bottom.
He was quickly joined by Gill, who tonked Dutt for a six that hit the roof of the venue to get issues going. The right-hander favoured the leg-side for each tempo and spin and the duo placed on 50 runs for the primary wicket in opening six overs.
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Interestingly, regardless of Rohit getting off the blocks sooner than Gill it was the latter who acquired to his fifty earlier than him, off 30 balls within the twelfth over. However, the Punjab right-hander fell quickly after caught impressively by Teja Nidaramanu on the tremendous leg boundary off Paul van Meekeren’s bowling.
Virat Kohli walked out to a rousing reception from the group and whereas he started slowly, Rohit maintained the tempo of the innings by constantly going after the bowling earlier than going for one shot too many and getting holed out within the mid-wicket boundary for 61.
Kohli upped his tempo quickly after and acquired his half-century to elevate hopes of getting to his fiftieth ODI ton, but it surely wasn’t to be as he was bowled by his as soon as Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate Roelof Van der Merwe for 51.
But then started the stand that might be remembered by followers, for days to come. Shreyas Iyer (128 not out off 94 balls) and KL Rahul (102 off 64 balls) put the Netherlands assault to the sword, carting boundaries to all elements of the venue and placing on 208 runs in simply over 20 overs to assist India attain an imposing 410 for 4 in 50 overs.
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In reply, the Netherlands acquired off to the worst attainable begin dropping Wesley Baresi within the second over to Mohammed Siraj. But Max O’Dowd (30 off 42 balls) and Colin Ackermann (35 off 32 balls) placed on 61 runs for the second wicket, that included arguably the shot of the match from the latter, a straight drive off Siraj.
But Kuldeep Yadav eliminated Ackermann in his first over to break the stand and Ravindra Jadeja then joined the enjoyable to take away O’Dowd, who was bowled for 27. As if to check the bowling power of the batters, Rohit opted to give the likes of Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav a bowl. The Netherlands batters survived the interval till Jasprit Bumrah was introduced again and he despatched Bas de Leede again to the pavilion with a peach of a yorker for 12.
Siraj repeated the feat to ship again Sybrand Englebrecht for 12 however Nidamanaru stored the innings transferring ahead with some lusty blows. Nidamanuru placed on 36 runs for the seventh wicket with Logan van Beek earlier than the latter was bowled by Yadav for 16.
Van de Merwe slogged a couple of hits to the leg-side boundaries of the spin duo of Yadav and Jadeja earlier than he fell whereas going for one massive hit too many and was holed out on the lengthy on boundary for 16.
To give extra cheer to the group, Rohit got here on to have a bowl and off the fifth ball of his opening over, eliminated Nidamanuru for 54 to shut the match and assist the Men in Blue keep their undefeated streak.
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To save the very best for the final, the group on the stadium and watching again dwelling have been handled to a two-over spell from Kohli by which he eliminated captain Scott Edwards, caught down the leg aspect by Rahul a lot to the delight of his teammates and others watching the sport.
Brief scores: India 410 for 4 in 50 overs (Iyer 128 not out, Rahul 102, Rohit 61; de Leede 2-82) beat Netherlands 250 all out in 47.5 overs (Nidamanuru 54, Engelbrecht 45; Bumrah 2-33).
