Continuing its winning campaign in the World Cup 2023, India defeated New Zealand by 70 runs in the semi-finals, and now India has reached the final of the World Cup 2023. Where they will face the winner of the other semi-final. The second semi-final is being played between Australia and South Africa.
In the first semi-final played between India and New Zealand, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. For Team India, Rohit Sharma scored a brisk 47 runs in 29 balls. Shubman Gill also scored an unbeaten 80 runs on 66 balls. But today history was created by Virat Kohli, who scored his 50th century in ODI cricket today.
With his 50th ODI century, Virat broke the record of great batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries. This is indeed a great achievement for Virat Kohli.
Along with this record, Sachin also praised Virat Kohli a lot. Shreyas Iyer also scored his second back-to-back century. Shreyas scored 105 runs on 70 balls. KL Rahul also scored 39 runs playing 20 balls in the last overs. And set a big target of 398 runs for New Zealand.
While playing in reply, New Zealand’s batsmen had put India in trouble at one time. Captain Kane Williamson and Mitchell thrashed the Indian bowlers. But after this, it was the turn of Mohammed Shami who took 7 wickets and reduced New Zealand’s innings to 327 runs.
After reaching the final of the World Cup 2023, there was a flood of congratulations to Team India on social media. In such a situation, once again American actress Kendra Lust has congratulated Team India and has also given special congratulations to Mohammed Shami.
Let us tell you that recently Kendra Lust congratulated Virat Kohli on his birthday and 49th century on social media.