IND vs SA / India's eighth consecutive win - defeated South Africa by 243 runs, Kohli scored a century

IND vs SA: India has registered its eighth consecutive win in the ODI World Cup by defeating South Africa by 243 runs in a one-sided match. With this, India has also decided to finish number-1 in the points table. That means India will face the fourth ranked team in the semi-finals. Thanks to Virat Kohli's record 49th century, India won the toss and chose to bat first at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata. The team scored 326 runs losing 5 wickets in 50 overs. Kohli scored an unbeaten 101 runs and equaled Sachin Tendulkar's world record of 49 ODI centuries. Shreyas Iyer scored 77 runs.

In reply, South Africa was all out after scoring 83 runs in 27.1 overs. Ravindra Jadeja took maximum 5 wickets for India. Mohammed Shami got 2 wickets and Kuldeep Yadav got 2 wickets. India has won eight consecutive matches in a World Cup after 20 years. Earlier, Team India had won 8 matches one after the other in the 2003 World Cup.

First Indian to score a World Cup century on Virat's birthday

In the Indian innings, Virat Kohli played a century of unbeaten 101 runs on 121 balls. He has equaled Sachin Tendulkar's world record of most centuries in ODIs. Kohli became the first batsman from India and the third in the world to score a World Cup century on his birthday.

On Kohli's 49th century, Sachin Tendulkar wrote in a funny tone - 'I have turned 50 this year and it took me 365 days to reach from 49 to 50. I hope you will complete the journey from 49 to 50 in the next few days.

Virat is the fastest batsman to reach 49 centuries

Virat Kohli is the fastest batsman to reach 49 ODI centuries. He has achieved this achievement in 277th innings. Sachin Tendulkar had scored so many centuries in 451 innings.

Africa's poor start; Siraj, Jadeja and Shami got wickets in the first over.

South Africa, which set out to chase the target of 327 runs, had a bad start. The team lost three wickets while scoring 35 runs in the first powerplay. Jasprit Bumrah created pressure in the very first over and gave only 2 runs. The benefit of this pressure came in Siraj's first over. He bowled opener Quinton de Kock (5 runs). After Siraj, Jadeja bowled captain Temba Bavuma (11 runs) in his first over and Shami got Aiden Markram (9 runs) caught by KL Rahul in his first over.

Indian innings...

India scored 300 for the second time in a row, Virat's century. Batting after winning the toss, the Indian team scored 326 runs for 5 wickets in 50 overs. Apart from Virat's century, Shreyas Iyer and Rohit Sharma played brilliant innings.

Some interesting facts of India-South Africa match

Kohli has also completed 1500 runs in the World Cup. He is fourth in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs in this tournament. Sachin Tendulkar is on top with 2278 runs.

Keshav Maharaj bowled 10 overs without any boundaries in the World Cup. He took 1 wicket for 30 runs in 10 overs. In the World Cup 2023, he became the sixth bowler to complete his spell without a boundary.

Rohit Sharma (16 sixes) became the player to hit the most sixes in the World Cup powerplay after Brendon McCullum (17).

Rohit equaled the record of hitting most ODI sixes in a year. He has scored 58 sixes so far this year. AB de Villiers also hit 58 sixes in 2015.

Kagiso Rabada has dismissed Rohit Sharma the maximum number of times in all formats, 12 times. After him, Tim Southee has taken his wicket 11 times.

Virat completed his century in the 49th over

Virat Kohli took charge of India's innings after coming to bat in the sixth over. He made a century partnership with Shreyas. Even after Shreyas's dismissal, Virat remained at one end, making partnerships of 22 runs with KL Rahul and 36 runs with Suryakumar Yadav. On the basis of these scores, Team India crossed the score of 300 runs, meanwhile Virat also completed his 49th ODI century in the 49th over. Virat scored a century on 119 balls and gave strike to Jadeja in the last over. Virat remained not out after scoring 101 runs on 121 balls. He finally made a not out partnership of 41 runs on 24 balls with Ravindra Jadeja and India scored 326 runs. Jadeja remained not out after scoring 29 runs on 15 balls.

Shreyas Iyer scored 77 runs, made a partnership of 134 runs with Virat.

After Rohit was out, Virat quickly scored 19 runs on 15 balls. But after Shubman Gill was out, Virat batted cautiously. Shreyas, who was batting with him, also had trouble playing but once he got settled, he scored runs quickly. Both of them made a century partnership and took the team's score beyond 200 runs. Shreyas was out after scoring 77 runs on 87 balls and the partnership of 134 runs between the two was broken.

Rohit-Gill gave a stormy start, India 91/1 in Powerplay-1

Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill batted explosively in the initial overs of the powerplay. Both of them maintained constant pressure on the South African bowlers. Rohit-Gil had scored 61 runs in 5 overs. The team lost the wicket of captain Rohit Sharma on the score of 62 runs. Here Rohit was out after scoring 40 runs in 24 balls. He was caught by Kagiso Rabada at the hands of captain Temba Bavuma.

After Rohit's dismissal, Gill-Kohli took charge of scoring runs and took the score beyond 90 in the powerplay. The Indian team scored 91 runs after losing one wicket in the first 10 overs.

1-1 wicket for 5 bowlers of South Africa

South African bowlers could not give a good start to the team. He could take only one wicket in the first 10 overs and also gave away 91 runs. However, in the middle overs, the bowlers bowled tightly and gave very few runs. Lungi Ngidi, Marco Janson, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj and Tabrez Shamsi got 1 wicket each from the team.

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.

South Africa: Temba Bavuma (captain), Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Marco Jansson, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi.