| ICC Males’s World Cup, Kolkata: |
| India 326-5 (50 overs): Kohli 101* (121), Shreyas 77 (87), Rohit 40 (24) |
| South Africa 89 (27.1 overs): Jansen 14 (30); Jadeja 5-33, Okay Yadav 2-7, Shami 2-18 |
| India gained by 243 runs |
| Scorecard.Group desk |
Virat Kohli equalled the file of fellow India nice Sachin Tendulkar as he hit his forty ninth one-day worldwide century in a dominant 243-run win for the hosts in opposition to South Africa within the World Cup.
Kohli, on his thirty fifth birthday, hit 101 not out from 121 balls, sending the group at Eden Gardens right into a frenzy.
His very good knock helped India publish 326-5 from their 50 overs in Kolkata.
South Africa had been then skittled out for simply 89 in 27.1 overs.
It means India are assured of high spot after successful all eight of their group-stage matches.
South Africa, who’ve already secured a semi-final place, are second on 12 factors, two factors forward of Australia in third.
Kohli placed on 134 for the third wicket to anchor the India innings with Shreyas Iyer, who got here to the crease within the eleventh over with the rating 92-2 following a sometimes explosive begin by Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill.
Shreyas was finally dismissed by Lungi Ngidi for 77 from 87 deliveries, earlier than an lively 22 from 14 balls from Suryakumar Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja’s unbeaten 29 from 15 noticed the innings finish with a flourish.
India’s highly effective seam assault was backed up by their spinners as they breezed by the South Africa batting line-up, with Jadeja the choose of the bowlers, taking 5-33.
With India and South Africa main the best way on the high of the group stage, this match was a possible gown rehearsal for the World Cup closing in Ahmedabad later this month.
And the convincing nature of this win will do little to change India’s standing as heavy favourites to raise the trophy for a 3rd time.
Kohli attracts stage with the ‘Little Grasp’
Eden Gardens turned a sea of sunshine as the group lit up their cellphones in anticipation when Jadeja nudged a single off Kagiso Rabada to carry Kohli on strike on 99 within the forty ninth over.
Kohli pushed the following ball to cowl for a single to spark enormous celebrations within the stands, with Kohli calmly elevating his bat earlier than taking off his helmet and trying to the sky.
“Each alternative to play for India is an enormous one and to do that on my birthday in entrance of an enormous crowd is the stuff of desires. It’s one thing you dream about as a toddler,” mentioned Kohli, whose innings included 10 fours.
“To equal my hero’s file is a large honour.
“Individuals like comparisons – I’m by no means going to be pretty much as good as him. He’s perfection with batting.
“It is an emotional second. I do know the place I come from and to observe him on TV… his appreciation means quite a bit to me.”
Writing on X, previously Twitter, Tendulkar mentioned: “Nicely performed Virat. It took me 12 months to go from 49 to 50 earlier this yr. I hope you go from 49 to 50 and break my file within the subsequent few days. Congratulations!”
| Participant | A whole bunch | Innings |
| Virat Kohli (India) | 49 | 277 |
| Sachin Tendulkar (India) | 49 | 452 |
| Rohit Sharma (India) | 31 | 251 |
| Ricky Ponting (Australia) | 30 | 365 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) | 28 | 433 |
Legendary batter Tendulkar took 451 innings and 462 ODIs to hit his forty ninth century, whereas it has taken Kohli 277 innings and 289 ODIs.
He’s additionally now the second-highest run-scorer on the match with 543 and may additionally have one eye on breaking Tendulkar’s file for many runs at a single World Cup, which stands at 673.
Kohli made his ODI debut in opposition to Sri Lanka in 2008, and performed alongside Tendulkar within the early phases of his profession, together with a World Cup victory in opposition to the identical opponents in 2011.
He was within the staff when Tendulkar made the final of his 49 ODI centuries in opposition to Bangladesh in Mirpur on the 2012 Asia Cup.
Kohli already had 10 ODI lots of to his identify at that time and the ‘Little Grasp’ should have had greater than an inkling about who was the probably candidate to dethrone him.
Kohli averages 58.48 in ODI cricket – one of the best of any participant to have performed 50 matches or extra.
He additionally has an astonishing file when chasing targets in ODIs, averaging 65.24 in chases, whereas 27 of Kohli’s 49 lots of have come whereas batting second.
Tendulkar nonetheless holds the file for essentially the most ODI profession runs, with 18,426, and has essentially the most Take a look at centuries, with 51. Kohli is joint sixteenth on the listing of Take a look at centuries, with 29.
With fewer ODIs anticipated to be performed sooner or later, amid the recognition of T20 cricket, he might attain 50 ODI centuries figuring out the file could by no means be damaged once more.
South Africa falter on the chase once more
South Africa’s destiny was maybe determined after they had been requested to chase after dropping the toss.
Temba Bavuma’s facet have scored 428, 311, 399, 382 and 357 when batting first at this World Cup, successful by greater than 100 runs every time.
On the 2 events they’ve chased, the Proteas misplaced to the Netherlands and scraped a one-wicket victory in opposition to Pakistan.
Their innings acquired off to a horrible begin when match top-scorer Quinton de Kock chopped Mohammed Siraj onto his personal stumps after scoring simply six.
Their conservative strategy within the powerplay, with the goal of preserving wickets earlier than pushing on later within the innings, additionally backfired when Bavuma and Aiden Markram fell cheaply to scale back the Proteas to 35-3 after 10 overs.
They by no means actually recovered as wickets then fell with alarming regularity to an India assault that bowled out Sri Lanka and England for 55 and 129 respectively of their earlier two matches.
Solely 4 gamers reached double figures, with bowling all-rounder Marco Jansen high scorer with simply 14.
‘I believe we’re getting higher’ – What they mentioned
Participant of the match Kohli: “It was an enormous recreation and we had been enjoying the hardest staff within the match who’ve performed properly up to now. As a result of it is my birthday it turns into extra particular. I had the sense it should be one thing greater than only one extra recreation within the World Cup. I wakened with that pleasure.”
India captain Rohit Sharma: “I believe we’re getting higher. We glance how we have now performed within the final three video games, we performed higher when it comes to adapting to the state of affairs. We had been put beneath a bit little bit of strain by England however we collectively got here by.
“We aren’t getting forward of ourselves. There are couple of massive video games [left]. We’ve got to remain within the second which has been the speak from day one. We need to present our potential.”
South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma: “Look we all know it is a problem. We all know there is a narrative about us chasing. We did not try this recreation a whole lot of justice, however I believe we have now our conversations as a batting group, we have now focus on it unemotionally.
“The wicket performed the best way we suspected it will play, in opposition to all the recommendation we had been getting. We anticipated it to deteriorate, however we weren’t in a position to adapt our abilities accordingly. We may very well be right here for the semi-finals – we acquired a correct look, we have now to adapt.”