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IND vs NZ: India won against New Zealand after 20 years, Virat Kohli played a tremendous innings.

The Indian team’s winning streak continued against New Zealand in the ODI World Cup 2023. Team India, which came to chase the score of 274 runs against the Kiwi team at Dharamshala ground, achieved the target in 48 overs at the loss of 6 wickets. In this match, once again the magic of chase master Virat Kohli was seen, who completely ensured the victory by playing a brilliant match-winning innings of 95 runs. Team India has now reached first place in the points table with 10 points. Let us tell you that India has been successful in winning against New Zealand for the first time since 2003 in the ODI World Cup.

Rohit and Gill gave a great start to the team

The Indian team, which was chasing the target of 274 runs against New Zealand, once again expected a good start from the opening pair of captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill. Both the players completely lived up to the expectations and started scoring runs at a fast pace and in the first 10 overs, the team’s score reached 63 runs without any loss.

Jadeja along with Kohli led the team to a thrilling victory

Team India had lost half of its team in this match on the score of 191. After this, Virat Kohli along with Ravindra Jadeja continued the process of taking the innings forward. Jadeja adopted an aggressive approach in batting and did not miss boundaries on bad balls, which also reduced the pressure on Virat Kohli. The partnership of 83 runs for the sixth wicket between Kohli and Jadeja played an important role in Team India’s victory in this match. Virat Kohli was out in this match after playing an innings of 95 runs in 104 balls. Whereas Jadeja remained unbeaten till the end and returned after playing an inning of 39 runs, giving Team India a win by 4 wickets in this match. In this match for New Zealand, Lockie Ferguson took 2 wickets while Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry and Trent Boult took 1 wicket each.

Darrell Mitchell was amazing in New Zealand’s innings, Shami took 5 wickets

If we talk about the innings of the New Zealand team in this match, a brilliant inning of 130 runs was seen with the bat of Darrell Mitchell. Apart from this, Rachin Ravindra also scored 75 runs for the Kiwi team, due to which the New Zealand team was able to reach the score of 273 runs in 50 overs. India’s bowling performance was impressive from Mohammed Shami who took 5 wickets in his 10 overs. Apart from this, Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets while Bumrah and Siraj also took 1-1 wicket.