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World Cup: India’s sixth straight victory, defending champions England out of semi-final race
……. Asghar Ali Mubarak…….
In the 29th match of the ICC World Cup 2023, India continued its excellent performance and defeated the defending champion England. Curr secured his sixth consecutive win in the event and thus eliminated the England team from the race for the semi-finals.
In the 29th match of the World Cup being played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bhari Vajpayee Cricket Stadium in the Indian city of Lucknow, England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and invited the host team to bat first.
The Indian openers gave their team a start of 26 runs, but on the same score, Chris Woakes bowled young Shubman Gill while scattering wickets.
Virat Kohli, the hero of the last two matches, seemed to struggle during this innings and lost his wicket by playing an unnecessary shot without opening his account in 9 balls.
Just as the Indian team was trying to recover from these losses, Woakes returned Shreyas Iyer to the pavilion, giving his team another important victory.
After the loss of three important wickets for 40 runs, Lokesh Rahul came to support captain Rohit Sharma and both of them started to slowly push the score while batting well. During this time, the fielding of the English fielders was very excellent and they prevented the Indian batsmen from getting a certain run on several occasions, which kept the pressure on the host team.
Skipper Rohit Sharma completed his 54th half-century in ODI cricket and put on a 91-run partnership with Lokesh Rahul for the fourth wicket.
To break the partnership, Jos Buttler brought in fast bowler David Willey, who ended Lokesh Rahul’s innings with 39 off 58 balls. Rohit Sharma played an innings of 87 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 10 fours and was on his way to a century, but he was caught easily by Adil Rashid trying to throw the ball over the boundary.
After five wickets fell for 164 runs, the onus fell on the shoulders of Surya Kumar Yadav who along with the tail-enders undertook to push the score forward.
Ravindra Jadeja got out after scoring only 8 runs, India’s hopes of finishing 250 runs on the scoreboard suffered a big blow, while Mohammad Shami also scored a run and became Wood’s wicket, but Surya did not lose heart and scored an innings of 49 runs.
played The fast bowler shared a partnership of 21 runs with Kuldeep Yadav before Jasprit Bumrah was run out on the last ball of the innings.
The Indian team scored 229 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the allotted overs. David Willey was the most successful bowler for England with 3 wickets while Woakes and Adil took 2 and 2 wickets respectively.
When England started chasing the target, the openers gave the team a 30-run start, but in the fifth over, Jasprit Bumrah gave his team two consecutive victories, bowling David Mullan and also walking Joe Root on the first ball. .
Ben Stokes continued to struggle against the Indian bowling and after playing 10 balls he became the wicket of Mohammad Shami without opening his account. Shami ended Jonny Bairstow’s 14-run innings by hitting the English team in the next over. After the fall of four wickets for 39 runs, captain Jos Buttler came to the wicket and he along with Moeen Ali completed the team’s half-century.
England’s captain had barely scored 10 runs when Kuldeep Yadav’s incoming ball failed to protect his wickets and half the English team had returned to the pavilion on 52 runs. Liam Livingston came in to support Moeen at this stage and the duo started to push the score forward but Rohit Sharma once again brought Shami back to the bowling with a total of 81, who bowled Moeen on the very first ball of his second appeal. With the help of the wicket, Moeen Ali scored 15 runs.
The score had reached 98 when Jadeja ended Chris Woakes’ innings while Kuldeep from the other end lbwed Livingston, the top scorer for 27 runs, to give India their eighth win. After that, it didn’t take long for India to wrap up the chessboard of the visiting team and the entire team was bundled out for just 129 runs.
Mohammad Shami was once again the most successful bowler for India who dismissed four players while Jasprit Bumrah dismissed three players and Kuldeep Yadav dismissed two players.
India won the match by a huge margin of 100 runs and secured their sixth consecutive victory in the event. Defeat in this match ended defending champions England’s journey to the World Cup and eliminated them from the race for the semi-finals as it was their fifth win in six matches and despite winning their next three matches, they are out of the semi-finals. Will not be able to reach the final.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma was named the man of the match for his brilliant innings of 87 runs.
Both the teams for the match consisted of these players. England: Jos Buttler (captain), Jonny Bairstow, David Mullan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Liam Livingstone, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Moeen Ali, Mark Wood, Chris Woakes
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shibman Gul, Surya Kumar Yadav, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspart Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj. Both teams have played 6 matches in this World Cup so far, India have won all their 6 matches while England have won 6 matches.