Sydney: India’s second successive win in the T20 World Cup. Rohit Sharma and his team beat Netherlands, the youngest team in Super 12 Group 2, by 56 runs. Chasing the target of 180 runs set by India, the Dutch team’s innings ended with 123 runs in the allotted overs. Until the last turn, the orange team held on without getting it all out. India won the toss and batted first.
The performance of Captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suryakumar Yadav helped India set a target of 180 runs against the Netherlands. All three scored half centuries. Virat Kohli was the top scorer with 62 runs. Although it was a good batting pitch, India’s batting was slow. Suryakumar and Kohli’s innings in the last over took India’s score to 170. Meanwhile, KL Rahul, who was dismissed for nine runs, was once again a disappointment. Paul van Meekeren and Fred Klaasen took the wickets for the Dutch team.
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In response, the Netherlands did not challenge India at one point. The Dutch team can be happy that they did not manage to catch the Dutch all out after 20 overs in the innings. Tim Pringle was the top scorer for Holland with 20 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin took two wickets each. Mohammed Shami took another wicket.
Meanwhile, in another match today, South Africa crushed Bangladesh by 104 runs. Chasing the 206-run target raised by the Proteas thanks to Riley Russo’s century, Bangladesh ended the innings on 101. Rousseau faced 56 balls and scored a century with eight sixes and seven fours. Quinton de Kock, who scored 63 runs, gave excellent support to Russo. Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan. Afghanistan will face Ireland and Australia will face England in tomorrow’s World Cup match.
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