India go 9-0 as Shreyas and Rahul smash lots of to beat Netherlands

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

It started with the 18th ball of the match when Gill charged down the pitch and launched Aryan Dutt onto the roof of the stand previous long-on. Dutt had already conceded 16 runs from his 11 balls to that time, 12 of these in fours to Rohit, who swept and minimize to nice impact. If ever there was an instance of the muscle India have proven at this event, this was it. And whereas Netherlands did not precisely crumble in pursuit, batting deep into the forty eighth over for his or her 250 as India used 9 bowlers together with Kohli and Gill, that they had been left with an excessive amount of to do.

Rohit tormented the Netherlands bowlers both aspect of the pitch whereas Gill was downright merciless, clearing the boundary nearly at will. Left-arm spinner Roelof van der Merwe entered within the ninth over to attempt to prise aside a stand between two righ- handers which by now had ballooned to 73 runs. He was the fifth bowler to attempt, all of them in useless after 10 overs, as Rohit and Gill closed out the powerplay on 91 with out loss with 5 sixes and 10 fours between them.

So it was with audible disbelief that the gang exhaled when Gill departed for 51 off 32 balls, failing to clear Teja Nidamanuru simply contained in the boundary rope at deep backward sq. leg. Then, having managed to stem the movement of runs, Netherlands rejoiced when Rohit picked out Wesley Barresi extensive of long-on to fall for 61.

Kohli took time to get going with simply seven runs from the primary 18 balls he confronted however he discovered his rhythm and ended up elevating his half-century off 53 deliveries. It was his hundred that onlookers have been most interested by, Kohli poised to drag away from the ODI-record 49 centuries he shares with Sachin Tendulkar, but it surely wasn’t to return on this event. Kohli confronted simply three extra balls and added just one run earlier than his off stump was rattled by a van der Merwe supply that skidded on because the batter sat again in his crease trying to chop.

In the meantime, Shreyas had taken India previous 200 within the twenty ninth over. He then introduced up his half-century, sublimely threading a Bas de Leede supply via further cowl, marking the primary time in 50-over World Cups that the highest 4 batters in any crew had all scored fifty. Rahul grew to become the fifth when he introduced up a 40-ball half-century in solely the third occasion of the highest 5 passing the milestone in ODIs.

It was the fourth-wicket pair who transformed their begins, Shreyas signalling as a lot with a disdainful six off Paul van Meekeren over further cowl and when he thumped van Meekeren for one more most over long-on, the slack-jawed expression on van der Merwe’s face stated all of it. Rahul adopted swimsuit two balls later, whipping the ball over deep sq. leg and the gang positioned there right into a frenzy.

Shreyas reached his maiden World Cup century, and fourth in ODIs, off 84 balls with a single and he did not let up, thrashing three sixes off Logan van Beek within the forty ninth over. Rahul had punished something exterior off stump with essentially the most elegant of palms however he might be brutal too, transferring into the nineties with a six over deep midwicket and mentioning his ton off simply 62 balls – and India’s 400 – with a flick over deep sq. leg.

With 42 runs coming off the final two overs, Rahul’s dismissal on the penultimate ball for 102 was hardly a blip, his job – and that of his fellow batters – full and Shreyas walked off unbeaten on 128 from 94 balls.

Rahul was again within the motion simply 9 balls into Netherlands’ run chase with a robust, low catch behind the stumps to gather Barresi’s exterior edge as he tried to drive at Mohammed Siraj.

But when Colin Ackerman drove Siraj down the bottom on the primary ball of the ninth over, Netherlands grew to become the quickest crew to achieve 50 towards an India bowling assault which has been formidable at this World Cup, reaching 62 for 1 on the finish of the powerplay.

Then Kuldeep Yadav entered the assault, nevertheless, and struck in his second over, trapping Ackermann lbw for 35. Kuldeep appeared lower than impressed when Max O’Dowd lofted the ball straight to long-on just for the ball to pop via Siraj’s palms and strike him within the throat. But Ravindra Jadeja restricted the harm – in runs a minimum of – when he entered the assault three balls later and bowled O’Dowd instantly as Siraj walked to the dugout flanked by crew medical employees, though he later returned to motion.

As if the Bengaluru crowd wasn’t already the place the occasion was at, Kohli fired up the revellers much more as he despatched down a uncommon three overs and snared a wicket along with his ninth supply, Scott Edwards chasing a large one down the leg aspect and sending an edge to Rahul. Gill joined the enjoyable with two wicketless overs for 11 runs having solely bowled seven balls in worldwide cricket beforehand, however Jasprit Bumrah was all enterprise when he fired a yorker onto the foot of de Leede’s off stump, leaving Netherlands 144 for five after 32 overs.

It was Siraj who eliminated a cussed Engelbrecht, bowled for 45, and whereas Nidamanuru provided a preventing half-century comprising six sixes, his was the final wicket to fall, to none apart from Rohit who determined to probability his arm and ended the match along with his fifth supply.