Virat Kohli completes 20 years drought - beats New Zealand by 4 wickets

IND vs NZ: India achieved its 5th consecutive win in the World Cup 2023. The team defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets. The Indian team has won over the Kiwis in this tournament after 20 years. Earlier, in 2003, the Kiwis were defeated by 7 wickets at the Centurion ground. With this victory, the Indian team has come to the top of the points table. Now Team India has 10 points in its account after 5 matches. In such a situation, India's chances of reaching the top-4 have become stronger. Now the team will have to win only 2 out of 4 matches.

On Sunday, India won the toss and chose fielding at Dharamshala ground. New Zealand, who came to bat first after losing the toss, were all out for 273 runs in 50 overs. The Indian team achieved the target of 274 for 6 wickets in 48 overs. Virat Kohli played an inning of 95 runs on 104 balls, while Mohammed Shami took 5 wickets.

Suryakumar was run out after scoring only 2 runs. KL Rahul was out after scoring 27 runs. He was LBW by Mitchell Santner. Before him, Shreyas Iyer was caught out after scoring 33 runs. He was caught out by Trent Boult.

Shubman Gill was out after scoring 26 runs and Rohit Sharma was out after scoring 46 runs. Lockie Ferguson took both the wickets.

Kohli made important partnerships with Iyer-Rahul and Jadeja

Team India was under some pressure after losing the wickets of Rohit and Gill between the team score of 70 to 80. In such a situation, Virat Kohli kept India in the competition by making 3 half-century partnerships. Situation from 11 to 40 overs in further 3 points...

Team India suffered 2 setbacks for 5 runs: After a great start in the first powerplay, Lockie Ferguson showed the way to the pavilion for the Indian openers. Captain Rohit Sharma was bowled after scoring 46 runs in the 12th over. This ball took the inner edge of the bat and hit the stumps. After him, in the 14th over, Shubman Gill was caught by Daryl Mitchell on the personal score of 26 runs.

Kohli's fifty partnership with Iyer and Rahul: After the dismissal of Rohit-Gil, Kohli played a restrained innings. First he made important partnerships of 52 runs on 49 balls with Iyer and 54 runs on 64 balls with Rahul. Iyer played useful innings of 33 runs and Rahul played 27 runs in the middle order.

Surya was irresponsibly run out, Jadeja's brilliant innings: After Rahul's dismissal in the 33rd over, Suryakumar Yadav was irresponsibly run out, although the Kiwis did commendable fielding here. In such a situation, Jadeja and Kohli made the team sail through a half-century partnership.

Play stopped for 20 minutes due to fog

The match between India and New Zealand in Dharamshala was stopped for about 20 minutes due to fog. Fog came in at around 7:38 pm, making it difficult to see the players, after which the match was stopped. However, after 20 minutes the fog cleared and the match started again.

This is not the first strange reason for stopping a cricket match. Six years ago, the test match between India and Sri Lanka had to be stopped due to high pollution in Delhi. The match was a draw.

Rohit-Gil's brilliant start, scored boundaries in almost every over.

India's opening pair made a positive start to chase the target of 274 runs. Both of them first understood the pitch conditions and then started playing shots.

The pair of captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill scored boundaries in almost every over of the powerplay. Only the 9th over of the powerplay of the Indian innings remained boundaryless. In the powerplay, the Indian openers made a half-century partnership and the team scored 63 runs without loss in 10 overs.

During this period, Gill has become the fastest batsman to score 2 thousand runs in ODI. He achieved the achievement in 38 innings. Gill broke Hashim Amla's record. It took 40 innings for Amla to complete 2 thousand runs.

Mitchell's century, Rachin's fifty; Shami took 5 wickets

India won the toss and chose bowling. From New Zealand, who came to bat first, Daryl Mitchell (130) scored a century, while Rachin Ravindra (75 runs) scored a half-century. Glenn Phillips contributed 23 runs.

Mohammed Shami took 5 wickets, while Kuldeep Yadav got 2 wickets. Mohammad Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah also got one success each. While a batter runout also occurred.

Indian bowlers could not take wickets in the middle overs, even missed catches.

After a stressful start in the powerplay, Rachin Ravindra (75 runs) and Daryl Mitchell batted admirably, while the Indian spinners could not take advantage of the initial pressure. Between 11th over and 30th over, the Kiwi team did not lose any wicket and scored 113. Here the team score was 147 runs for 2 wickets in 30 overs. During this, Ravindra and Mitchell told other teams how to face Kuldeep and Ravindra Jadeja. He batted by walking.

Indian bowlers made a comeback in the death overs

Batting first, New Zealand had the lead in the first 30 overs. Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell had scored fifties, from here the Indian bowlers made a comeback for the team. Mohammed Shami got Rachin Ravindra caught out in the 34th over. Rachin was out after scoring 75 runs.

After Rachin, there was a flurry of wickets, Tom Latham 5, Glenn Phillips 23, Mark Chapman 6, Mitchell Santner 1 and Lockie Ferguson could score only 1 run. Whereas Matt Henry could not even open an account. Shami and Kuldeep Yadav provided breakthroughs, while Bumrah got Mark Chapman caught out. Shami also completed his 5 wickets in the innings by taking 3 wickets in the last 2 overs.

3 Points for New Zealand's comeback...

The century partnership of Rachin and Daryl made a brilliant comeback for New Zealand after losing the wickets of the openers in the powerplay. The team scored 113 runs without loss in the middle 20 overs. There was a century partnership between Rachin and Daryl. Both added 159 runs on 152 balls for the third wicket.

Kuldeep scored 19 runs from one over, during which Mohammad Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja came. Kiwi batsmen played Jadeja cautiously and did not play risky shots. Siraj kept attacking approach in front of Kuldeep. In the 19th over, Kuldeep gave the most expensive over of the innings, 16 runs.

Jadeja-Rahul missed catches. Rachin Ravindra missed the catch from Ravindra Jadeja in the 11th over, while in the 29th over he was saved by DRS on Siraj's ball. Then in the 30th over, KL Rahul dropped the catch of Mitchell.

India's power play, New Zealand 34/2

Indian bowlers created pressure from the very first over. Jasprit Bumrah bowled a maiden over in the first over. Siraj took the wicket of Devon Conway in the fourth over. Shreyas took a brilliant catch at forward square leg. Then New Zealand's score was only 9 runs.

Siraj and Bumrah did not allow the New Zealand batsmen to play freely for 8 overs. Mohammed Shami came to bowl the 9th over. He bowled Will Young on his very first ball. In 10 overs of power play, New Zealand lost 2 wickets and could score only 34 runs.

Playing-11 of both the teams

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

New Zealand: Tom Latham (captain and wicketkeeper), Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson and Trent Boult.