Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli And MS Dhoni
The Indian team has performed amazingly in the ODI World Cup 2023. The Indian team has won 9 consecutive matches in the group stage and has made it to the semi-finals. India has played 7 semi-final matches in the history of the World Cup, out of which the team has faced defeat in three. There have been 7 semi-final matches, but so far only one Indian player has been able to score a century. Let us know about this player.
This player has scored a century
The semi-final match of ODI World Cup 2003 was played between India and Kenya. In this match, Team India defeated Kenya by 91 runs. In this match, then captain Sourav Ganguly had scored a brilliant century. Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the World Cup semi-finals. He scored 111 runs in 114 balls against Kenya, which included five fours and five sixes. Ganguly is also the Indian batsman who played the biggest innings in the semi-finals of the World Cup. Sachin Tendulkar has scored half-centuries in three matches of the ODI World Cup semi-finals. He scored 65 runs against Sri Lanka in 1996, 83 runs against Kenya in 2003 and 85 runs against Pakistan in the ODI World Cup 2011.
Rohit Sharma played the semi-finals of the ODI World Cup 2015 and 2019. His best score in both these semi-final matches has been 34. Whereas Virat Kohli has played three semi-final matches, in which his best score is 9. Mahendra Singh Dhoni played an inning of 65 runs against Australia in the semi-finals of ODI World Cup 2015.
India won the match
Batting first, the Indian team scored 270 runs at the loss of 4 wickets, in response to which the Kenyan team was all out for 179 runs. For India, Sourav Ganguly contributed 111 runs, Sachin Tendulkar contributed 83 runs and Virender Sehwag contributed 33 runs. Steve Tikolo definitely scored 56 runs for Kenya, but he could not lead his team to victory. Zaheer Khan took maximum three wickets for India.
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