India's 9th consecutive win in the World Cup: Beat Netherlands by 160 runs, Iyer-Rahul's centuries

India's 9th consecutive win in the World Cup: Beat Netherlands by 160 runs, Iyer-Rahul's centuries

India continues its winning campaign in the World Cup 2023. The team defeated Netherlands by 160 runs in the last league match. This is India's ninth consecutive victory in the World Cup. For the first time, Team India has won nine consecutive matches in a World Cup.

Batting after winning the toss, Team India scored 410 runs for 4 wickets in 50 overs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. In reply, Netherlands team was all out for 250 runs in 47.5 overs.

From Team India, Shreyas Iyer scored unbeaten 128 runs and KL Rahul scored 102 runs. Captain Rohit Sharma (61 runs), Shubman Gill (51 runs) and Virat Kohli (51 runs) played half-century innings. In bowling, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets each. Captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli also got one wicket each.

60 runs scored in death over, team all out at 250

In the last 7.5 overs, Netherlands team lost 4 wickets in scoring 60 runs. Dutch batsman Teja Nidamanuru completed the third ODI fifty of his career. He scored 54 runs. He was caught by Indian captain Rohit Sharma at the hands of Shami. Netherlands team was all out in 47.5 overs.

In scoring 128 runs in the middle overs, 5 batsmen of Dutch team were out, Kohli got a wicket.

After a good start in the powerplay, Netherlands batsmen looked under pressure. No batsman from the team could score a fifty. The team lost 5 wickets in scoring 128 runs in the middle 30 overs.

During this, the bowling of Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav was seen.

Virat Kohli dismissed Netherlands captain Scott Edwards. He took one wicket for 13 runs in 3 overs, while Shubman Gill and Suryakumar remained empty handed after bowling 2 overs each. After 40 overs the team's score was 190/6.

O'Dowd-Ackerman Fifty Partnership

The Netherlands team, which was chasing the target of 411 runs, lost the wicket of Wejli Baresi in the very second over. Baresi was caught behind on the ball of Mohammad Siraj after scoring only 4 runs. Colin Ackerman, who landed at number-3, made a fifty partnership with Max O'Dowd. Both of them took the team's score to 62 runs in 10 overs.

After the first powerplay was over, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja put a break on the runs. Kuldeep got Ackerman LBW, while Jadeja bowled O'Dowd. The team lost 3 wickets till the score of 72 runs.

India 410/4 with centuries from Iyer-Rahul; Fifty of Rohit, Gill and Kohli

In Bengaluru, Team India won the toss and batted first and scored 410 runs for 4 wickets in 50 overs. Shreyas Iyer scored unbeaten 128 runs and KL Rahul scored 102 runs.

Shreyas, who came at number-4, scored his first century in the World Cup, while KL Rahul scored his second World Cup century. Captain Rohit Sharma (61 runs), Shubman Gill (51 runs) and Virat Kohli (51 runs) played half-century innings.