India's winning campaign continues in the World Cup 2023. In its second match, Team India defeated Afghanistan by eight wickets. In this match played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Afghanistan, after winning the toss and batting first, scored 272 runs after losing eight wickets in 50 overs. Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi played an inning of 80 runs and Azmatullah Omarzai played an inning of 62 runs.
In reply, India achieved the target by losing two wickets in 35 overs. Captain Rohit Sharma played an inning of 131 runs in 84 balls with the help of 16 fours and five sixes. Rohit was also named player of the match for his innings. Whereas, Virat Kohli remained unbeaten after scoring 55 runs in 56 balls. He gave victory to Team India by hitting a four on the last ball of the 35th over. India's next match is now against Pakistan in Ahmedabad on 14 October.
India successfully achieved the target of more than 250 for a record seventh time in the ODI World Cup. If we look at the other teams, no one has achieved the target of more than 250 more than five times. At the same time, this was Rohit's third century contribution in the target successfully achieved by India in the World Cup. In this case, he left behind former West Indies great Gordon Greenidge, Pakistan's Rameez Raja and New Zealand's Stephen Fleming.
Afghanistan team, which won the toss and came to bat first, had a bad start. Jasprit Bumrah gave the first blow to the team on the score of 32. He got Ibrahim Zadran (22) caught by wicketkeeper Rahul. After this, Hardik got Rahmanullah Gurbaz caught by Shardul Thakur on the boundary. Gurbaz could score 21 runs. Shardul took a brilliant catch on the boundary line.
Afghanistan suffered two setbacks at 63 runs. After Gurbaz, Rahmat Shah was also out. He was given out LBW by Shardul Thakur. Rahmat played an inning of 16 runs. After this, captain Hashmatullah along with Azmatullah made a partnership of 163 runs for the fourth wicket. Both Hashmatullah and Azmatullah completed their respective half-centuries. Hardik broke this partnership. He clean bowled Azmatullah. Azmatullah played an innings of 62 runs in 69 balls with the help of two fours and four sixes. Whereas, Shahidi was out after scoring 80 runs in 88 balls with the help of eight fours and one six. Kuldeep Yadav sent him to the pavilion.
After this Bumrah sent Mohammad Nabi (19), Najibullah Zadran (2) and Rashid Khan (16) to the pavilion. Mujeeb remained unbeaten on 10 runs and Naveen Ul Haq remained unbeaten on nine runs. Bumrah took four wickets for 39 runs in 10 overs. Whereas, Hardik Pandya got two wickets. Kuldeep and Shardul got one wicket each. Siraj gave away 76 runs in nine overs and proved costly.
In reply, Rohit and Ishan Kishan gave a stormy start to Team India. Both of them made a partnership of 156 runs for the first wicket. This is the fifth highest opening partnership for India in the ODI World Cup. Rohit and KL Rahul are at the top in this matter. Both of them had made a partnership of 189 runs against Sri Lanka in Leeds in the 2019 World Cup. Rohit-Ishaan's partnership was broken by Rashid Khan. He played an inning of 47 runs in 47 balls with the help of five fours and two sixes.
Meanwhile, Rohit completed 50 runs in 30 balls and century in 63 balls. This was the fastest century by India in the ODI World Cup. In this matter he left Kapil Dev behind. Kapil scored a century in just 72 balls against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup. This was the 31st century of Rohit's ODI career. He has now reached third place in terms of scoring most centuries in this format. Only Sachin Tendulkar (49 centuries) and Virat Kohli (47 centuries) are ahead of him.
Rohit hit 16 fours and five sixes in his innings of 131 runs in 84 balls. He also became the batsman to hit the most number of sixes in international cricket. In this matter he left Chris Gayle behind. Rohit was clean bowled by Rashid Khan. After this, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer made an unbeaten 68-run partnership to give India victory. Virat remained unbeaten after scoring 55 runs in 56 balls with the help of six fours. This was the 68th half-century of Virat's ODI career. At the same time, this was his second consecutive half-century. Virat had scored 85 runs in the last match against Australia. At the same time, Shreyas played an unbeaten inning of 25 runs in 23 balls with the help of one four and one six. Rashid took two wickets for Afghanistan.
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