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India Gets Super Motivation With the Success of First World Cup Match

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Before Sourav Ganguly and now Rohit Sharma turned into the first Asian batsman to hit a hundred in this World Cup up until this point, as India traveled to a six-wicket triumph over South Africa to get their battle off to a sparkling begin at The Rose Bowl on Wednesday. After Yuzvendra Chahal trapped four wickets to limit South Africa to 227/9, Rohit conveyed his bat with an unbeaten 122 off 144 balls, his innings studded with 13 fours and two sixes. 

Rohit, the main cricketer to score three double hundreds in ODIs, presently has 23 ODI hundreds – just 8 batsmen have scored more ODI hundreds of years than India’s supernatural opening batsman and bad habit skipper. Rohit additionally went past previous India captain Ganguly’s count of 22 hundreds in the 50-over match . 

Pursuing an unassuming 228 for triumph, India were lucky to not lose one of their openers as the ball balooned not yet decided on three events at an early stage yet without much of any result. Rohit was dropped when he was batting on 1 by Faf Du Plessis off Kagiso Rabada (2/39) at second slip. Rabada and Chris Morris 1/36) bowled tight lengths to keep the Indian openers calm with Rabada disposing of Dhawan (8) got behind by wicket-manager Quinton de Kock. Appraised as a standout amongst the best quick bowlers of his age, Rabada was getting it done in the main spell (5-0-21-1) and could have more wickets. Much captain Virat Kohli attempted to get moving, as Morris likewise ventured up to beat the expert batsman many occasions. 

Kohli (18) found the fence after 33 balls, a heavenly draw off Andile Phehlukwayo yet in the following ball tumbled to a well-coordinated bouncer, de Kock snaffling a superb catch behind the stumps to quiet the huge lump of Indian supporters. In came KL Rahul, at the much discussed No 4 opening, and together with Rohit shared a 85-run stand which poured cold water to any expectations of a South Africa rebound. 

Du Plessis neglected to locate a second choice other than Rabada who could get him the wickets, yet when the 24-year old was brought, harking back to the 27th over, Rohit had just raised his 50 off 70 balls looking as eminent as ever.Rabada got Rahul (26) out with a slower conveyance which the batsman scopped to mid off where Du Plessis took a simple catch, yet it was short of what was needed by then as MS Dhoni strolled in and scored a chill 34 runs 46 balls, including 74 keeps running with Rohit for the fourth wicket before getting out. 

Rabada gave South Africa another sniff of an opportunity in the 44th over with a quick bouncer that Rohit, batting on 107, confounded high uncertain yet to the bowler’s frighten, David Miller grassed a dolly at spread. In the following ball, Rohit utilized Rabada’s additional skip to curve back and help the ball over the attendant’s head for a limit and make an already difficult situation even worse. It was a six off Rabada that set the tone for Rohit who swiveled back and helped a shortish ball along to the fine leg limit, picking the length early. 

There was no halting the star Mumbai batsman from that point on, as he was extreme to chinaman bowler Tabraiz Shamsi and Imran Tahir who had an off day. Rohit piled on his 23rd ODI hundred out of 128 balls by working a solitary off Shamsi, his third against South Africa and second in the World Cup. After Dhoni’s expulsion, all-rounder Hardik Pandya (15 off 7 not out) crushed three fours as India won with 15 balls to save. Prior, Chahal (4/51) was the main tormentor for the tottering Proteas batting line-up, picking four wickets and delivering the second best spell by an Indian on World Cup debut. 

Mohammed Shami’s 4/35 against Pakistan in the 2015 version is the best execution by an Indian bowler on World Cup debut. Star pacer Jasprit Bumrah (2/35) represented the wickets of openers Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock to begin the slide. South Africa, who are making their third showing of the competition, won the hurl and batted first. They lost their openers to Bumrah in the initial six overs before Rassie van der Dussen and chief Faf du Plessis took them past the 50-run mark. Chahal then took over from Bumrah, breaking the third-wicket organization by turning the ball around Van der Dussen and hitting the stumps even as the batsman hoped to play the switch clear. 

Chahal lined this up with the wicket of Du Plessis. J.P. Duminy was then gotten plumb in front by Kuldeep Yadav after which David Miller and Andile Phehlukwayo hoped to unite the innings with a somewhat down to business 46-run represent the 6th wicket that fell off 75 balls. It was Chahal who given the leap forward again by rejecting Miller. Phehlukwayo turned into Chahal’s fourth wicket in the 40th over. Chris Morris and Kagiso Rabada then countered with a 66-run remain off 59 balls for the eighth wicket that took South Africa past the 200-run mark. Bhuvneshwar Kumar then took the wickets of Morris and Imran Tahir to limit South Africa to 227. Brief Scores: South Africa: 227/9 (Morris 42, Chahal 4/51) versus India 230/4 in 47.3 overs (Rohit Sharma 122 not out….. Kagiso Rabada 2/39) .

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