Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli
In the ODI World Cup 2023, under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team showed excellent performance and ended the league matches brilliantly. Team India won all its league matches and finished at number 1 position in the points table. India will now face the New Zealand team, which is at number 4 in the points table, in the semi-finals, whom Team India had defeated by 4 wickets in the league stage. Now all eyes are going to be on the four key players of Team India in the semi-final match, in which apart from captain Rohit, the names of Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja are included. Rohit, Kohli and Rahul have not yet batted in the semi-finals of the ODI World Cup, so this figure is definitely scary for Team India.
Rahul scored 1 while Kohli could score runs at an average of only 3.66.
Indian team captain Rohit Sharma has played semi-final matches twice in the ODI World Cup so far and in both of them he has got a chance to open the innings. In 2015, Rohit was out after scoring 34 runs in the semi-final match against Australia, while he could score only 1 run in the 2019 World Cup semi-final against New Zealand. In such a situation, Rohit’s average in the semi-finals was only 17.50.
At the same time, the bat of Virat Kohli, who has scored 594 runs in this World Cup, has also been seen silent in the semi-final match. Kohli has played in the World Cup semi-finals three times in his ODI career. In this, Kohli could score 9 runs in the year 2011, after that 1 run in the semi-finals of the year 2015 and also only 1 run in the semi-finals of the year 2019, after which if we look at Kohli’s average in the World Cup semi-finals, it was only 3.66 in 3 innings. Used to be. Apart from Rohit and Virat, KL Rahul played in the 2019 World Cup semi-finals and in that he was out after scoring only one run.
Only Jadeja could show wonders with the bat
Ravindra Jadeja was successful in scoring a half-century in the 2019 World Cup semi-final match. Apart from this, Jadeja had played an inning of 16 runs in the semi-final match of the 2015 World Cup against Australia. If we look at Jadeja’s batting average, it has been 46.50 in 2 innings. Jadeja’s batting average against New Zealand in ODIs so far has been 51.57, in which he has scored 361 runs in 11 innings and during this period he has also played four half-centuries.
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