Team India won by 7 wickets in the match held at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. India maintained the clean sheet over Pakistan in the ODI World Cup history with a seven-wicket win over the side in Ahmedabad on Saturday. Rohit shared 77 for the third wicket with Shreyas Iyer, who ended on 53 not out as victory was sealed with almost 20 overs to spare. For India, an eighth successive defeat of Pakistan in World Cups, a run that stretches back to 1992, is their third win in three games in this year's tournament.
Batting first, Pakistan were bowled out for 191 runs, while India lost just 3 wickets in just 30.3 overs. Rohit Sharma's mesmerizing performance was the main highlight behind India's victory. This is India's third consecutive win in the 2023 World Cup. Pakistan's first defeat. India won the toss and decided to bowl first.
Pakistan 73 runs on the board when openers Shafiq and Imam-ul-Haq are out. With captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan combining for the third wicket, Pakistan advanced the score in a good way. But in the thirtieth over of the Pak innings, Siraj gave India the breakthrough by dropping Babar Azam. Babar scored 50 runs in 58 balls with the help of 7 boundaries. After that, Pakistan's batting was collapsing like a house of cards at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
With the captain falling, one after another, the Pak batsmen were returning to the pavilion. Pakistan were bowled out for 191 for the loss of eight wickets while adding just 36 runs from 155/2. Mohammad Rizwan who scored 49 runs is the second top scorer in Pakistan batting. Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets each for India
Chasing a target of 192 runs, India tried to attack from the start. But India lost the wicket of Shubman Gill when the score reached 23 runs. The player got out after scoring 16 runs off 11 balls. With Gill falling, Rohit took charge of the attack. With his onslaught against the Pak bowlers, the Indian score rocketed quickly. Meanwhile, India lost the wicket of Virat Kohli, who scored 16 runs, but that did not affect Rohit. He decided to play attacking. This decision is the reason why India was not on the back foot even for a second in the game and the victory was so easy.
Rohit, who was in brilliant form earlier in the captaincy, underlined through his performance that this was his day. Rohit's all-round excellence is what made India's victory so easy. Even though Rohit got out when the Indian score reached 156, India had already secured victory. Rohit scored 86 runs off 63 balls including six fours and sixes each. Shreyas Iyer with 53 runs and KL Rahul with 19 runs at the crease when India won
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