India beat Afghanistan by 8 wickets of their ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 group-stage match on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on October 11 (Wednesday). Whereas Afghanistan received the toss and elected to bat first, they posted 272/8 on a flat floor. In response, India, using on Rohit Sharma’s swashbuckling effort with the bat reached there with ease with 90 balls nonetheless remaining within the match. The Hitman scored 131 off 81 balls, an innings laced with 16 fours and 5 sixes and one which noticed him shatter a number of data.
Not solely did the Hitman smash the file of most variety of worldwide sixes as he went previous Chris Gayle in the course of the course of this innings however he additionally hit the quickest World Cup hundred by an Indian on this match, reaching the milestone off 63 balls. The earlier was of Kapil Dev who had gone previous the three-figures park in 72 deliveries throughout that iconic 175 in opposition to Zimbabwe throughout India’s profitable 1983 World Cup marketing campaign. As well as, Rohit’s century meant he now has essentially the most variety of tons in World Cup cricket as he broke Sachin Tendulkar’s file who had 600 in as many World Cups. The Indian opener, against this, has seven lots of already in what’s just the start of his third World Cup.
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