Shami’s seven wickets, Kohli, Shreyas’ centuries, India’s defeat in New Zealand’s World Cup semi-final

 

 

Shami’s seven wickets, Kohli, Shreyas’ centuries, India’s defeat in New Zealand’s World Cup semi-final
……. Asghar Ali Mubarak……

 

The Indian cricket team is one step away from lifting the World Cup trophy. Qualified In the batting, India gave New Zealand a mountain-like target thanks to the centuries of Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer.

Despite being in the bowling, bowler Mohammad Shami took seven wickets and India defeated New Zealand in the first semi-final. Qualified for the final. In this match played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai,

India set New Zealand a target of 398 runs to win, in pursuit of which the Kiwi team managed to score 327 runs. Indian fast bowler Mohammad Shami stood out by taking 7 wickets, he was declared the best player of the match.

New Zealand’s pursuit of the target did not get off to a good start with both openers Dion Conway and Rachin Ravindra returning to the pavilion for a total of 39 with 13 and 13, both dismissed by Mohammad Shami.

In such a situation, a partnership of 181 runs was formed between Daryl Mitchell and captain Kane Williamson, which gave New Zealand hope of victory. However, Indian bowler Mohammad Shami once again proved to be the crisis man for his team on a total of 220 and he dismissed Kane Williamson who scored 69 runs and then Tom Latham for zero on the same total.

Daryl Mitchell was partnered by Glenn Phillips, the duo formed a partnership of 75 runs, but Phillips, who scored 41 runs on this total, was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah. New Zealand’s new batsman Mark Chapman was also the guest for just 2 runs when he was caught out on the boundary by Kuldeep Yadav. Daryl Mitchell, standing on the sidelines,

also lost courage in front of the run rate and was caught out by Mohammad Shami in the 46th over. Apart from Mohammad Shami’s 7 wickets, Jasprit Bumra, Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammad Siraj took one wicket each. After that, the Indian bowlers one after the other showed the way to the pavilion for the Kiwi batters before ending their innings on 327 runs.

In the first semi-final match being played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India’s captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat on a favorable wicket. Rohit Sharma opened the innings in a traditional aggressive manner and completed the team’s century in 5.2 overs. Rohit Sharma scored 47 runs off 29 balls with the help of four sixes and four fours but was caught by his Kiwi captain off Tim Southee for a total of 71.

After that, Virat Kohli came to support Shibman Gill at the other end and both of them played well and scored 93 runs for the second wicket. Shubman Gill completed his half-century and was on his way to a century after scoring 79 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 8 fours, but on the same score he complained of muscle strain and retired Hurt. By that time,

India had scored 162 runs for the loss of one wicket and there was hope that the New Zealand team might be able to take advantage of this opportunity to get back into the match, but in-form batsman Shreyas Iyer did not let that happen.

When the batsmen who scored a century in the last match came out, it felt like they started their innings from where they had left off in the previous innings.

He formed another important partnership with Virat Kohli who was on his way to a century from the second end and paved the way for a big score in India’s crucial semi-final match. Started playing from and formed a partnership of 163 runs with Shreyas.

Kohli, who missed out on a century in the previous match, did not miss this opportunity and created a new history by scoring his 50th century in ODI cricket, becoming the first player in the history of cricket to achieve this feat.

Earlier, the world record for most centuries in ODI cricket was held by Sachin Tendulkar who scored 49 centuries. Virat Kohli scored 117 runs off 113 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 9 fours. On the other hand, Shreyas Iyer once again rained sixes and fours,

the batsman who scored a century in 62 balls in the previous match again scored a century in 67 balls this time. Shreyas Iyer was dismissed after scoring 105 runs off 70 balls with the help of 8 sixes and 4 fours. Lokesh Rahul batted aggressively in the final overs and scored 39 runs off 20 balls with 2 sixes and 5 fours.

India scored 397 runs for the loss of 4 wickets, the highest score by any team in a World Cup semi-final so far. On behalf of New Zealand, Tim Southee also completed a century and took three wickets for 100 runs while one wicket went to Trent Boult.

It should be noted that the news of the British news agency “Daily Mail” has claimed that the Indian Cricket Board changed the pitch to help its spinners against the ICC agreement. According to Daily Mail reports, the first semi-final of the tournament at the Wankhede Stadium was originally supposed to be designated pitch number seven, which has not been used in the tournament so far.

 

Both the teams for the match consist of these players.

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shibman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj.

New Zealand: Kane Williamson (captain), Tom Latham, Dion Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Lockie Ferguson, Tim Southee, Trent Boult.