India 410 for 4 (Shreyas 128 *, Rahul 102, Rohit 61, Kohli 51, Gill 51) beat Netherlands 250 (Nidamanuru 54, Engelbrecht 45, Siraj 2-29, Bumrah 2-33, Kuldeep 2-41, Jadeja 2-49) by 160 runs Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul led India’s batting masterclass as the hosts finished their unbeaten encounter the knockouts with a hammer blow to Netherlands, who ended their World Cup with a 160-run defeat. Centurions Shreyas and Rahul staged a 208-run collaboration after a 100-run stand in between first-wicket set Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had actually laid the structure for India’s 410 for 4. Virat Kohli likewise passed fifty and place on 71 with Shreyas as the Netherlands bowlers – conserve for a brief duration as Kohli bedded in – had no counterclaim for an India batting line-up which swung the door off its hinges as it break into the space and provided an overwhelming monologue with the home crowd hanging off every word. It started with the 18th ball of the match when Gill charged down the pitch and introduced Aryan Dutt onto the roofing system of the stand previous long-on. Dutt had actually currently yielded 16 runs from his 11 balls to that point, 12 of those in fours to Rohit, who swept and cut to terrific impact. If ever there was an example of the muscle India have actually revealed at this competition, this was it. And while Netherlands didn’t precisely fall apart in pursuit, batting deep into the 48th over for their 250 as India utilized 9 bowlers consisting of Kohli and Gill, they had actually been entrusted excessive to do. Rohit tortured the Netherlands bowlers either side of the pitch while Gill was downright terrible, clearing the border practically at will. Left-arm spinner Roelof van der Merwe went into in the ninth over to attempt and prise apart a stand in between 2 righ- handers which by now had actually swollen to 73 runs. He was the 5th bowler to attempt, all of them fruitless after 10 overs, as Rohit and Gill liquidated the powerplay on 91 without loss with 5 6s and 10 fours in between them. It was with audible shock that the crowd breathed out when Gill left for 51 off 32 balls, stopping working to clear Teja Nidamanuru simply inside the limit rope at deep backwards square leg. Having actually handled to stem the circulation of runs, Netherlands rejoiced when Rohit chose out Wesley Barresi broad of long-on to fall for 61. Kohli required time to start with simply 7 runs from the very first 18 balls he dealt with however he discovered his rhythm and wound up raising his half-century off 53 shipments. It was his hundred that observers were most thinking about, Kohli poised to pull clear of the ODI-record 49 centuries he shows Sachin Tendulkar, however it wasn’t to come on this event. Kohli dealt with simply 3 more balls and included just one run before his off stump was rattled by a van der Merwe shipment that skidded on as the batter relaxed in his crease trying to cut. In the meantime, Shreyas had actually taken India past 200 in the 29th over. He then raised his half-century, sublimely threading a Bas de Leede shipment through additional cover, marking the very first time in 50-over World Cups that the leading 4 batters in any group had all scored fifty. Rahul ended up being the 5th when he raised a 40-ball half-century in just the 3rd circumstances of the leading 5 passing the turning point in ODIs. It was the fourth-wicket set who transformed their starts, Shreyas signalling as much with a disdainful 6 off Paul van Meekeren over additional cover and when he thumped van Meekeren for another optimum over long-on, the slack-jawed expression on van der Merwe’s face stated all of it. Rahul did the same 2 balls later on, whipping the ball over deep square leg and the crowd placed there into a craze. Shreyas reached his maiden World Cup century, and 4th in ODIs, off 84 balls with a single and he didn’t slow down, surging 3 6s off Logan van Beek in the 49th over. Rahul had actually penalized anything outside off stump with the most stylish of hands however he might be ruthless too, moving into the nineties with a 6 over deep midwicket and raising his heap off simply 62 balls – and India’s 400 – with a flick over deep square leg. With 42 runs coming off the last 2 overs, Rahul’s termination on the penultimate ball for 102 was barely a blip, his task – which of his fellow batters – total and Shreyas strolled off unbeaten on 128 from 94 balls. Rahul was back in the action simply 9 balls into Netherlands’ run chase with a strong, low catch behind the stumps to gather Barresi’s outdoors edge as he tried to drive at Mohammed Siraj. When Colin Ackerman drove Siraj down the ground on the very first ball of the ninth over, Netherlands ended up being the fastest group to reach 50 versus an India bowling attack which has actually been powerful at this World Cup, reaching 62 for 1 at the end of the powerplay. Kuldeep Yadav got in the attack, nevertheless, and struck in his 2nd over, trapping Ackermann lbw for 35. Kuldeep looked less than amazed when Max O’Dowd lofted the ball directly to long-on just for the ball to pop through Siraj’s hands and strike him in the throat. Ravindra Jadeja restricted the damage – in runs at least – when he got in the attack 3 balls later on and bowled O’Dowd right away as Siraj strolled to the dugout flanked by group medical personnel, although he later on returned to action. As if the Bengaluru crowd wasn’t currently where the celebration was at, Kohli fired up the revellers a lot more as he sent out down an unusual 3 overs and snared a wicket with his ninth shipment, Scott Edwards going after a broad one down the leg side and sending out an edge to Rahul. Gill signed up with the enjoyable with 2 wicketless overs for 11 runs having just bowled 7 balls in worldwide cricket formerly, however Jasprit Bumrah was all organization when he fired a yorker onto the foot of de Leede’s off stump, leaving Netherlands 144 for 5 after 32 overs. It was Siraj who got rid of a persistent Engelbrecht, bowled for 45, and while Nidamanuru provided a combating half-century consisting of 6 6s, his was the last wicket to fall, to none aside from Rohit who chose to chance his arm and ended the match with his 5th shipment.
India go 9-0 as Shreyas and Rahul smash hundreds to beat Netherlands
