Captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday surpassed compatriot Sachin Tendulkar with a report seventh World Cup century to guide India to a crushing eight-wicket win over Afghanistan. Chasing 273 for victory in New Delhi, the hosts rode on Rohit’s 131 to attain their goal in 35 overs for a second straight win within the 50-over showpiece occasion. He introduced the almost packed home to its ft together with his century off 63 balls to go previous Tendulkar’s report of six tons in World Cups.

“Special to get a World Cup 100. Very happy about that. Don’t want to think about records too much because I know there’s a long way to go,” Rohit mentioned after being named man of the match.

“I know it’s my responsibility to give the team a good start and put the team in a good position as much as possible. It’s something I’ve done for a while and love.”

Rohit’s century was additionally the quickest by an Indian in a World Cup, faster than Kapil Dev‘s hundred in 72 balls towards Zimbabwe in 1983.

Rohit hit the ball to all elements of the bottom as he reached 1,000 World Cup runs after which went previous Chris Gayle‘s report of 553 sixes throughout all worldwide codecs.

The dashing opener hit 16 fours and 5 sixes in his 84-ball knock earlier than being bowled by leg-spinner Rashid Khan.

His opening partnership of 156 with the left-handed Ishan Kishan, who made 47, prolonged the workforce’s dominance after a great bowling present on a batting-friendly pitch.

Happy homecoming for Kohli

Superstar cricketer and Delhi-born Virat Kohli quickly took over to hit an unbeaten 55 and completed the match with a boundary.

Kohli had Shreyas Iyer, who made 25 not out and hit the most important six of 101 metres within the event to this point, for firm on the different finish.

Rohit mentioned the workforce has gamers “who can play fearless cricket”.

Afghanistan posted 272-8 after electing to bat on the floor which witnessed a World Cup report 754 runs scored within the earlier match when South Africa posted 428 and defeated Sri Lanka.

Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah stood out for the house facet together with his finest World Cup bowling figures of 4-39.

Afghanistan slipped to 63-3 earlier than skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi (80) and Azmatullah Omarzai (62) placed on 121 runs to assist Afghanistan get better.

Bumrah bought Ibrahim Zadran caught behind for 22 and celebrated by pointing to his temple.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, on 21, and Rahmat Shah, on 16, fell within the house of 4 balls with Hardik Pandya and Shardul Thakur taking the wickets.

Shahidi, a left-hand batsman, and Omarzai then rebuilt the innings in a century stand, prompting Rohit to rotate his bowlers.

Omarzai reached his second ODI fifty and shortly Shahidi smashed Pandya for 4 to convey up his half-century and adopted it up with a six.

Omarzai, who hit two fours and 4 sixes in his 69-ball knock, additionally attacked however was bowled by Pandya.

Shahidi saved up the assault with common boundaries however fell lbw to Kuldeep Yadav in his try to reverse sweep the left-arm wrist spinner.

Bumrah struck twice together with Rashid to maintain Afghanistan down on a run-filled wicket.

“We have seven more games, looking forward to those games,” mentioned Shahidi. “Hopefully we learn from our mistakes and we will work on it.”

The Afghans misplaced their opening match to Bangladesh whereas event favourites India started with a victory over five-time winners Australia.

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