ODI World Cup digest: India fill their boots and keep unbeaten, now for the knockouts
The Males’s 2023 ODI World Cup has reached the semi-final stage within the race to play the ultimate on November 19. Every morning we are going to spherical up the most recent motion and information from the occasion and produce you the insights from our reporters on the bottom.
Prime Story: India go 9-0 as Shreyas and Rahul smash a whole lot to beat Netherlands
India 410 for 4 (Shreyas 128*, Rahul 102, Rohit 61, Kohli 51, Gill 51) beat Netherlands 250 (Nidamanuru 54, Engelbrecht 45) by 160 runs
Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul led India’s batting masterclass because the hosts accomplished their undefeated run into 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 partnership after a 100-run stand between first-wicket pair Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill had laid the inspiration for India’s 410 for 4. Virat Kohli additionally handed fifty and placed on 71 with Shreyas because the Netherlands bowlers – save for a brief interval as Kohli bedded in – had no rebuttal for an India batting line-up which swung the door off its hinges because it burst into the room and delivered an overwhelming monologue with the house crowd hanging off each phrase.
Match evaluation: Rahul flicks change to lastly present the World Cup his full vary
The flicked six has a particular place in World Cup historical past. Viv Richards off Mike Hendrick. Yashpal Sharma off Bob Willis.
KL Rahul off Paul van Meekeren most likely will not be part of these two pictures in cricketing folklore. It did not are available a remaining or semi-final however a dead-rubber league recreation in opposition to one of many weaker assaults of the event. And flicked sixes are now not earth-shattering occasions. Flicked sixes in 2023 are maybe as widespread as sixes of any form have been within the ODIs of 1979 and 1983.
What was exceptional about this specific shot, then, was that it took till the event’s remaining league recreation for Rahul to unveil it at this World Cup.
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Semi-final build-up: Labuschagne vs Stoinis: Australia’s huge name
Marnus Labuschagne or Marcus Stoinis. Who survives? For the primary time at this ODI World Cup, Australia appear like having a full complement of 15 gamers to pick from for his or her semi-final in opposition to South Africa which suggests the selectors will lastly must take a name on the construction of the highest seven.
Every time throughout the group stage that it appeared that call would have to be made, there was a pure emptiness. It signifies that the massive judgement over who misses out has not but been wanted, however barring any additional harm issues forward of going through South Africa on Thursday that second will arrive in Kolkata.
Semi-final build-up: ‘Creative hunters’ SA draw inspiration from tiki-tika for World Cup success
Tiki-taka is a mode of play largely related to the Spanish soccer workforce that received the 2010 World Cup, which was hosted in South Africa (so possibly there’s the hyperlink) and is mainly about sustaining possession, normally by way of brief passes. Translating it to cricket technique is not easy however Enoch Nkwe, South Africa’s director cricket, explains it as having an understanding of methods to “rebuild with out having to place your self underneath stress and proceed transferring the sport ahead”.
