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The Indian team defeated New Zealand by 70 runs in a spectacular fashion. Indian bowlers and batsmen performed amazingly in this match. Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli scored centuries in this match. Whereas Mohammed Shami took 7 wickets. It is because of these players that Team India was successful in winning the match. Many big records were made by India. Let us know 10 big news from the sports world.
Rohit Sharma did wonders
Rohit Sharma batted explosively in the semi-final match against New Zealand. He scored 47 runs in just 29 balls, which included four fours and four sixes. With this, he has become the player to hit the most sixes in the ODI World Cup. Rohit now has 51 sixes in his name. He has broken the record of Chris Gayle. Gayle has hit 49 sixes in the ODI World Cup.
Became the first player to do so
Virat Kohli played the fourth semi-final match of his ODI World Cup career. He is the only player from India to play four semi-finals. At the same time, New Zealand team captain Kane Williamson is also playing the semi-finals of the ODI World Cup for the fourth time.
Kohli broke Sachin’s record
Virat Kohli scored 117 runs against New Zealand. With this, he has reached first place in terms of scoring most runs in a World Cup. He now has 711 runs to his name. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 673 runs in the 2003 ODI World Cup. He had achieved a big feat in the history of the World Cup, which has now been broken by Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli did this feat in 10 matches of this World Cup.
Shreyas Iyer did this charisma
Shreyas Iyer played an inning of 105 runs against New Zealand. Now he has scored more than 500 runs in the ODI World Cup. He has become the first batsman in the world to score 500 plus runs while batting at number four or below. Earlier in the 2007 World Cup, New Zealand’s Scott Styris had scored 499 runs. Whereas in the 2015 World Cup, AB de Villiers had scored 482 runs.
Iyer left Ganguly behind
Shreyas Iyer scored 105 runs in 70 balls at a strike rate of 150 in the innings against New Zealand. Iyer hit 4 fours and 8 long sixes during this innings. With this, he has become the Indian batsman to hit the most sixes in a World Cup match. He has broken the record of Sourav Ganguly. Ganguly had hit 7 sixes in the match played against Sri Lanka in the 1999 World Cup.
Babar Azam left the captaincy
Pakistan team had to face a crushing defeat in the One Day World Cup. The team could not qualify for the semi-finals this season also. Under the captaincy of Babar Azam, the team did not perform well in even a single important match. For this reason he has decided to leave the captaincy. He wrote on social media that today, I am stepping down as the captain of Pakistan in all formats. It’s a tough decision but I think it’s the right time to make this call.
Pakistani team got two captains
After Babar Azam stepped down from the captaincy, it was announced by the PCB that now the team will be captained by Shan Masood in Tests and the new captain in T20 will be fast bowler Shaheen Afridi. This will be the first time that Shan Masood and Shaheen Shah Afridi will take command of their team. Shaheen Afridi’s team Lahore Qalandars had won the title twice in a row in PSL. Shaheen’s team had defeated Multan Sultan under the captaincy of Mohammad Rizwan twice in the finals in a row.
Shami completed 50 wickets in the World Cup
Mohammed Shami bowled amazingly against New Zealand. He took 7 wickets in the match. With this he has taken 51 wickets in the ODI World Cup. He has become the seventh bowler to take more than 50 wickets in the ODI World Cup. Before him, Glenn McGrath, Muttiah Muralitharan, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Starc, Wasim Akram and Trent Boult have achieved this feat.
Rohit praised Indian players
After the match against New Zealand, Rohit Sharma said that Kane Williamson and Daryl Mitchell batted brilliantly. It was important for us to remain patient. At one point the crowd also went quiet, but we knew we needed a catch or a run out. After this we tried everything possible. Mohammed Shami bowled brilliantly in such a situation. He said that the top five-six batsmen of the team are in great form. Whenever he has got an opportunity, he has taken advantage of it. It is great to see what Shreyas Iyer has done for us in this tournament.
Shami made this record
Mohammed Shami has become the first bowler to take five-wicket haul thrice in a single edition of the ODI World Cup. No one had been able to accomplish this feat before him. In the current World Cup, he has taken 5 wickets against New Zealand in the group stage, five wickets against Sri Lanka and 7 wickets against New Zealand in the semi-finals. Apart from this, he has become the bowler who has taken the most five wicket hauls in the ODI World Cup. He now has 4 five-wicket hauls to his name.
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