Indian team beats Bangladesh by 7 wickets
Virat Kohli completed his century by hitting sixes
Indian team defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets. This is the fourth consecutive victory of the Indian team in the ODI World Cup 2023. Bangladesh gave India a target of 257 runs to win this match, which Team India easily achieved. The bowlers and batsmen performed amazingly for the Indian team. This score proved to be very dwarf in front of the batsmen of Team India. Virat Kohli scored a stormy century for India. It was because of him that Team India was successful in winning the match. Kohli made many records after scoring a blazing century.
Team India made a great start
Team India made a good start while chasing the target. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill made a partnership of 88 runs for the first wicket. Both these players scored runs in spectacular style. Rohit scored 48 runs and Shubman scored 55 runs. After this, Virat Kohli took over the responsibility of scoring runs. He completed his century by hitting a six and led Team India to victory. He scored 103 runs. KL Rahul supported him well. Bangladesh bowlers failed to make any impact in the match.
Virat Kohli made this record
Virat Kohli has completed his 26000 runs in international cricket after playing a stormy innings in this match. Kohli has scored 212th fifty in international cricket. With this he has left behind Jacques Kallis. Kallis has scored 211 fifties in international cricket. While chasing in the ODI World Cup, he has scored his first century. Apart from this, this is his second century against Bangladesh in the ODI World Cup.
Players who have scored the highest fifty plus score in international cricket:
264 - Sachin Tendulkar
217 - Ricky Ponting
216 - Kumar Sangakkara
212- Virat Kohli
211 - Jacques Kallis
India had got the target of 257 runs
Bangladesh team batted first and scored 256 runs. For Bangladesh, Tanjid Hasan and Liton Das made an opening partnership of 93 runs for the first wicket. Tanjeed contributed 51 runs and Liton contributed 66 runs. After the dismissal of these two, no middle order batsman could play a big innings and was out. Mushfiqur Rahim scored 38 runs, Nasum Ahmed scored 14 runs. In the end Mahmudullah scored 46 runs. It was because of him that the team was able to reach a respectable score. Indian bowlers gave away runs in the beginning, but after the fall of the first wicket, the Indian bowlers got into the rhythm. Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja have taken 2-2 wickets for India. Shardul Thakur and Kuldeep Yadav took one wicket each.