Magic player Virat Kohli neglected to score his 50th ODI century yet wound up rising to Sachin Tendulkar’s record with another 50 years during the Cricket World Cup 2023 match among India and Netherlands in Bengaluru on Sunday. This was the seventh 50 years for Kohli in the current year’s Cricket World Cup and he equalled Sachin Tendulkar and Shakib Al Hasan as the player with the most number of half-hundreds of years in a single version of the competition. Kohli wound up scoring 51 off 5 conveyances with 5 fours and one six.
Most 50+ scores in a solitary World Cup version
7 – Sachin Tendulkar (2003)
7 – Shakib Al Hasan (2019)
7 – Virat Kohli (2023)*
India captain Rohit Sharma won the throw and chose for bat first against the Netherlands.
Table-clinchers India have won all their eight matches and come in unaltered for the competition’s last association match in Bengaluru.
The hosts were the principal group to book a semi-last spot and will play New Zealand at Mumbai’s Wankhede Arena on Wednesday.
“Great chance for us to check every one of the cases. Very content with how we have played this competition, it makes the work more straightforward as a captain,” said Rohit.
Netherlands had an early effect after they paralyzed South Africa yet stay lower part of the table with only two triumphs.
Commander Scott Edwards said his group is unaltered from their past misfortune to Britain, however was anticipating what he feels “is the greatest group we’ve had in the competition”.
Five-time champs Australia and South Africa will play the second semi-last in Kolkata on Thursday.
Groups:
India:Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wkt), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj
Netherlands:Max O’Dowd, Wesley Barresi, Colin Ackermann, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Scott Edwards (capt/wkt), Bas de Leede, Teja Nidamanuru, Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren
