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India took 8 wickets against Afghanistan in their second match in the World Cup 2023. With this victory, the Indian team has achieved its second consecutive victory in the World Cup. Captain Rohit Sharma's stormy century destroyed Afghanistan. Chasing Afghanistan's target of 273 runs, India won easily thanks to Rohit Sharma's 131 and Virat Kohli's unbeaten half-centuries of 55 runs. Speaking after the match, Rohit Sharma gave his reaction saying that I played my natural game.
What did Rohit say after all?
I played my natural game and the pitch was also good for batting. I knew that once it was set it would be easy to play. There is a different joy in scoring a century in the World Cup, I will not divert my attention by thinking too much about the 7 centuries in the World Cup. I have played such innings before and I like to bat like this. But sometimes I succeed and sometimes I fail. Rohit Sharma said that such a systematic innings is necessary because the opposition bowlers remain in panic.
Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan came into the field while chasing the 273 runs given by the Afghanistan team. Rohit started batting in top gear from the very beginning. He did not give any leave to Afghanistan's bowlers, let alone wickets. Rohit scored 131 runs in just 84 balls, in which he hit 16 fours and 5 sixes. He has the record of hitting the most sixes in international cricket.
Team India's playing XI Rohit Sharma (C), Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (W), Hardik Pandya (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.
Afghanistan Playing XI Hashmatullah Shahidi (C), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (W), Ibrahim Zhadran, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zhadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Umarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazalhaq Farooqui.
