Rohit Sharma‘s India have been in their aspect during the ultimate league stage sport of World Cup 2023 towards the Netherlands. With the Diwali pageant being celebrated throughout the nation, the Men in Blue produced fireworks on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru in one other good outing for the hosts. India mauled the Dutch and broke quite a few information down in their 160-run win.
The batters created a couple of historic information however one such powered them to greater heights that even essentially the most profitable 12 months of an England facet went behind the Indians. The hosts of World Cup 2023 scored 410 on a batting-friendly Bengaluru floor and created the record for essentially the most 350+ totals scored by any staff in the historical past of ODI cricket. The record earlier belonged to England.Â
This was India’s eighth rating of 350+ in ODIs in 2023, which noticed them leapfrog the enduring 2019 12 months for England, who scored 7 such totals 4 years earlier than.Â
Most 350+ totals in a calendar 12 months:
India – 8 in 2023
England – 7 in 2019
South Africa – 6 in 2023
South Africa – 5 in 2015
Australia – 5 in 2023
Rahul, Iyer and batters make merry
It was an exquisite event for the Indians. All the highest 5 batters bought over at the least fifty runs in their run-feast in the sport. This turned the primary occasion of 5 or extra of the willow holders from a staff scoring fifty-plus in ODI World Cup historical past. This was solely the third such event in ODI historical past that 5 or extra gamers bought over the fifty-run mark in an innings. KL Rahul additionally scored the quickest century by an Indian in World Cup historical past – in 62 balls, bettering his captain Rohit Sharma’s record by a ball.
Rohit’s India proceed their unbeaten record in the ODI World Cup 2023 as they now have 9 wins in the league part. They completed on prime of the factors desk and can now lock horns towards fourth-placed New Zealand in the primary semifinal at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
