India stay unbeaten in spherical robin after win over Netherlands

Centuries from Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul powered India to a 160-run win over the Netherlands on Sunday on the ICC Males’s ODI World Cup as they accomplished the group stage with an ideal 9 wins in 9 video games.

Iyer (128 not out) and Rahul (102) placed on 208 runs to information India to 410-4.

India then employed 9 bowlers, together with part-timers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, to dismiss the Dutch for 250 within the match’s concluding league match in Bengaluru.

The hosts will face New Zealand within the first semi-final in Mumbai on Wednesday adopted by the second last-four conflict between Australia and South Africa the subsequent day in Kolkata.

“We targeted on one sport. We’re taking part in in (9) completely different venues and play accordingly and that’s what we did,” Sharma mentioned of the proper league stage.

“Very happy at how we’ve performed in these 9 video games. Very medical from sport one to right this moment.”

He added: “We’re taking part in in India, there will probably be expectation. We needed to do the job at hand. It’s one factor to speak about it however for everybody to purchase into it is vitally vital.”

Iyer smashed his first World Cup ton in a match the place all of the top-five Indian batters went previous the fifty mark on a batting-friendly pitch.

He reached his hundred – his fourth in ODI cricket – off 84 balls. He ended with 10 fours and 5 sixes.

Bengaluru-born Rahul raced to his ton with two sixes for the quickest Indian hundred in World Cups off 62 balls.

He departed 4 balls later as India fell in need of their highest ever World Cup complete of 413/5 v Bermuda in 2007.

Kohli reached his half century however fell for 51, silencing the gang who had been anticipating the star batsman’s fiftieth ODI ton after he equalled Sachin Tendulkar’s report of 49 within the workforce’s earlier win over South Africa.

Skipper Sharma, who hit 61, and Shubman Gill laid the foundations for the entire in a gap stand of 100 with the pair hitting common boundaries.

Gill fell for 51 off Paul van Meekeren and fellow fast Bas de Leede dismissed the Indian captain after he reached his fourth 50-plus rating together with a ton within the match.

Half-time success

De Leede overtook his father Tim, who took 14 wicket for the Dutch within the World Cup, and claimed yet one more to complete as the very best World Cup wicket-taker for his nation with 16 scalps.

The in-form Kohli reached the 71st ODI fifty of his profession solely to be bowled 4 balls later by Roelof van der Merwe’s left-arm spin.

Kohli surpassed South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (591) because the main batsman of the 2023 match with 594 runs.

Iyer stored up his blazing kind to register his fourth successive rating of fifty and above within the match and obtained assist from the opposite finish with Rahul becoming a member of the cost.

In reply, the Dutch had been by no means within the chase and stored shedding common wickets together with Kohli hanging with the his light medium-pace to say a primary ODI wicket in 9 years.

With the Dutch crawling of their reply, Rohit threw the ball to Kohli who despatched again opposition captain Scott Edwards, caught behind in his second over off a ball drifting down the leg facet.

It was solely Kohli’s fifth profession ODI wicket from his light medium-pace and first since 2014.

Sybrand Engelbrecht made 45 and Teja Nidamanuru hit 54 earlier than the innings folded in 47.5 overs with Rohit ending utilizing his part-time off spin to ship again Nidamanuru.

Rohit final picked an ODI wicket in 2012 and this was solely his ninth profession wicket.

“We’re fairly assured with the model we play however the match was all the time going to be robust,” Edwards mentioned of the Dutch who surprised South Africa early within the match however ended backside of the 10-team desk.

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