IND vs AFG / Rohit's century and India's second consecutive win - Afghanistan defeated by 8 wickets

IND vs AFG: India has registered its second consecutive win in the ODI World Cup-2023. The team defeated Afghanistan by 8 wickets on Wednesday night. India won the first match against Australia by 6 wickets. With this victory, Team India got 4 points and reached second place in the points table. India will now face Pakistan on October 14 in Ahmedabad. Afghanistan won the toss and batted first and scored 273 runs for 8 wickets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. In reply, Team India achieved the target in just 35 overs. Indian captain Rohit Sharma scored a century on 63 balls. He played an inning of 131 runs. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets in the first innings.

Virat's fifty, finished the match with a four

Virat Kohli played a not out inning of 55 runs in 56 balls. He made India win the match by 8 wickets by hitting a four on the last ball of the 35th over. Virat hit 6 fours in the innings and also made a partnership of 68 runs with Shreyas Iyer. Shreyas remained not out after scoring 25 runs. Virat had also scored 85 runs in the first match against Australia.

Rohit scored 131 runs on 84 balls

Captain Rohit Sharma, who came to open from India, started attacking in the initial overs itself. He scored fifty on 30 balls and century on 63 balls. He was out after scoring 131 runs on 84 balls. In this innings he hit 16 fours and 5 sixes.

Rohit became the first player to score 7 World Cup centuries

Rohit scored a century on 63 balls against Afghanistan. He became the first player in the world to score 7 centuries in the ODI World Cup. He broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar, who has 6 centuries in 44 innings. Rohit had scored one century in 2015 and 5 centuries in 2019.

This was the 31st century of Rohit's ODI career. In terms of most centuries in ODI, he left behind Australia's Ricky Ponting, who has 30 centuries to his name. Rohit reached third place in terms of most centuries. Sachin Tendulkar is at first position (49 centuries) and Virat Kohli is at second position (47 centuries).

Rohit had also completed his fifty in just 30 balls. He scored a century on 63 balls. He became the player for India to score a World Cup century in the fewest balls. He broke the 40-year-old record of Kapil Dev, who had scored a century off 72 balls against Zimbabwe in 1983.

Ishaan was out after scoring 47 runs

Ishan Kishan, who came to open with Rohit Sharma, scored 47 runs. He was dismissed by Rashid Khan. Ishaan made a partnership of 156 runs with Rohit.

India's fast start in the first powerplay

Rohit Sharma gave India a fast start in the first 10 overs of the innings. He made a fifty and took India's score to 94 runs in 10 overs. There was a century partnership between Rohit and Ishaan in the 12th over itself.

Rohit Sharma becomes sixer king of international cricket

Rohit Sharma became the sixer king of international cricket by hitting his third six in the innings against Afghanistan. Including all three formats, Rohit had 556 sixes. He broke the record of Chris Gayle of West Indies, who had hit 553 sixes in 453 matches.

Rohit has hit 77 sixes in T-20, 182 in Test and 297 sixes in ODI. Rohit also completed 1000 ODI World Cup runs in this innings. He achieved this record in 19 innings. He became the fastest Indian to do so.

This is how India's wickets fell...

First (Ishan Kishan- 47 runs): Rashid Khan bowled the fourth ball of the 19th over with a good length on the leg stump. Ishaan got caught at covers. The score at this time was 156.

Second (Rohit Sharma- 131 runs): Rashid Khan bowled the fourth ball of the 26th over with a googly on the middle stump. Rohit Sharma got bowled while trying to hit a sweep. The score was 205 runs.

4 bowlers of India took wickets

Jasprit Bumrah took maximum 4 wickets from India, Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets. Kuldeep Yadav and Shardul Thakur got 1 success each. Apart from Hashmatullah and Azmatullah, no batsman from Afghanistan could cross the 25-run mark.

4 important wickets for Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets. He got opener Ibrahim Zadran caught out in the 7th over. Then he took 2 wickets in the 45th over of the innings, after getting Najibullah Zadran caught out, he LBWed Mohammad Nabi. Bumrah ended his spell by taking the wicket of Rashid Khan in the 49th over. He gave 39 runs in 10 overs.

Shahidi's captaincy innings

Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi took charge of Afghanistan after the early fall of three wickets. He made a century partnership with Azmatullah and took the team's score beyond 200 runs. Shahidi played an innings of 80 runs, he was LBW on the ball of Kuldeep Yadav.

Omarzai-Shahidi took over Afghanistan

After losing 3 wickets for 63 runs, captain Hashmatullah and all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai took charge of Afghanistan. Both took time and made a century partnership. Omarzai became the victim of Hardik Pandya and the partnership between the two broke. Both of them made a partnership of 121 runs on 128 balls.

Omarzai scored 62 runs

After being set, Azmatullah Omarzai hit 3 against Kuldeep and a six against Jadeja. He was out after scoring 62 runs. Hardik made him LBW.

Afghanistan suffered 2 setbacks for 63 runs.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah took Afghanistan in charge after losing the wicket of Ibrahim Zadran in the powerplay. But both the players were out in consecutive overs. In the 13th over, Hardik Pandya sent Gurbaz to the pavilion, while in the 14th over, Shardul LBWed Rahmat Shah.

Afghanistan's average start in the first powerplay

After winning the toss and coming to bat, Afghanistan team made an average start. The team scored 48 runs losing one wicket in 10 overs. Ibrahim Zadran became the victim of Jasprit Bumrah after scoring 22 runs.

Playing eleven of both the teams

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj.

Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rehman, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazalhaq Farooqui.