Yes! It’s team India who is the next team to enter into Semis The match 40 of the ICC Men’s World Cup was happened between India and Bangladesh at Edgbaston, on July 2, 2019, by 11 am the local time. The toss was won by the Indian Captain Virat Kohli and decided to bat 1st.
First Innings :
It is Lokesh Rahul and Rohit Sharma opened the Indian batting line-up. The opening pair put up a stunning show as the partnership went on for 180 runs which is India’s highest 1st wicket partnership in WC. Rohit who was 1st put down an easy catch at 9 by Tamim caused him to score his 5th World cup century. As he scored 104 runs off 92 with 7 boundaries and 5 sixes included. On the other end, it was KLRahul who missed great or easy opportunity to mark his maiden World cup hundred as Rahul could only make 77 off 92 balls with 6 fours and a six included. After the 180 runs stand for the 1st wicket it was 1st Rohit for 180 and then Rahul for 195 runs left the middle. It was Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant in the middle as new batsmen. Virat who tried to build steady innings got out for just 26 off 27 balls with 3 boundaries under his belt. Yes! It was the young Indian kid and future Indian wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant who made a quick knock with his usual batting body language made 48 off 41 with 6 boundaries and a six included. Then came Hardik Pandya who was so unfortunate to get rid in the 2nd ball without scoring. After Pant who just missed in 2 runs to reach his 1st WC fifty, it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni came in the middle. After Pandya it was Dinesh Karthik who entered in the middle along with MS Dhoni in another end, remember though Dinesh Karthik (DK) was selected in 2007 ICC WC for team India this was supposed to be his debut WC appearance. Dinesh who came in the 45th over did not any time to settle and gave his wicket for 8 runs off 9balls with only one boundary included.
Thus MSD the world’s greatest finisher in spite off playing till the last over failed to complete in a better way as he made only 35 off 33 balls with 4 fours included. It was Mustafizur Rahman who led from the front for Bangladesh with a fiver (5 wicket-haul) along with Shakib Al Hasan who bowled economically well and picked 1 wicket gave 41 runs on his 10 over. It was Rubel Hossain and Sowmya Sarkar contributed 1 wicket each. Thus India finally made 314 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their complete 50 overs.
2nd Innings :
When the Bangla tigers began to chase it was the all experienced Tamim Iqbal and Sowmya Sarkar opened the innings to attain a mammoth target of 315. The opening partnership was broken at 39 runs as Tamim Iqbal was bowled a brilliant delivery by Mohammed Shami for 22 runs off 31 balls with 3 boundaries included under his belt. It was then the talented Soumya Sarkar who could only contribute 33 off 38 with 4 fours included as the Indian bowling attack was tremendously hard to play. It was Shakib Al Hasan the inform WC campaigner made his 4th WC half-century of this tournament and 46th fifty in ODIs that excludes 2 centuries had contributed 66 off 74 with 6 boundaries included. No other Bangladesh middle order batsmen proved their performance and failed to built up a steady partnership. As the experienced wicket-keeper batman Mustafiqur Rahim made only 24 off 23 balls with 3 boundaries included, it was Liton Das, Mosaddek Hossain and Sabbir Rahman just contributed 22, 3 and 36 respectively which was major failure factor to give-up the match to team India. The south paw batting all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin who registered his 1st WC fifty was not supported by any other Bangla batsmen as they fail short by 28 runs. The world no.1 bowler Jasprit Bumrah picked his 1st 4 wicket-haul in WC and Hardik picked his 1st 3 wicket-haul of this WC, as the rest of the bowlers Bhuveshwar, Shami and Chahal picked 1 wicket each. Thus Bangladesh could only make 286 runs by losing all their 10 wickets in just 48 overs.
Man of the Match(MOM): The Indian vice-captain “Hit-man” Rohit Sharma grabbed the Man of the Match tournament for his 104 runs off 92 balls.
Records: Rohit Sharma registered his 4th WC century in a single tournament who equals Sri Lanka’s Kumara Sangakkara’s 4 WC hundreds in 2011 and also made his 26th century in ODIs.
Rohit Sharma is now in the 2nd position next to Sachin Tendulkar who hold 6 centuries over all of maximum of centuries secured in the history of World cup games.
Shakib Al Haasan is the 1st man to reach 10 plus wickets and 500 plus runs in the history of all World Cups.
Mustafizur Rahman who picked the fiver registered his 1st WC 5 wicket-haul in WC and 3rd in ODIs.
First Innings :
It is Lokesh Rahul and Rohit Sharma opened the Indian batting line-up. The opening pair put up a stunning show as the partnership went on for 180 runs which is India’s highest 1st wicket partnership in WC. Rohit who was 1st put down an easy catch at 9 by Tamim caused him to score his 5th World cup century. As he scored 104 runs off 92 with 7 boundaries and 5 sixes included. On the other end, it was KLRahul who missed great or easy opportunity to mark his maiden World cup hundred as Rahul could only make 77 off 92 balls with 6 fours and a six included. After the 180 runs stand for the 1st wicket it was 1st Rohit for 180 and then Rahul for 195 runs left the middle. It was Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant in the middle as new batsmen. Virat who tried to build steady innings got out for just 26 off 27 balls with 3 boundaries under his belt. Yes! It was the young Indian kid and future Indian wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant who made a quick knock with his usual batting body language made 48 off 41 with 6 boundaries and a six included. Then came Hardik Pandya who was so unfortunate to get rid in the 2nd ball without scoring. After Pant who just missed in 2 runs to reach his 1st WC fifty, it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni came in the middle. After Pandya it was Dinesh Karthik who entered in the middle along with MS Dhoni in another end, remember though Dinesh Karthik (DK) was selected in 2007 ICC WC for team India this was supposed to be his debut WC appearance. Dinesh who came in the 45th over did not any time to settle and gave his wicket for 8 runs off 9balls with only one boundary included.
Thus MSD the world’s greatest finisher in spite off playing till the last over failed to complete in a better way as he made only 35 off 33 balls with 4 fours included. It was Mustafizur Rahman who led from the front for Bangladesh with a fiver (5 wicket-haul) along with Shakib Al Hasan who bowled economically well and picked 1 wicket gave 41 runs on his 10 over. It was Rubel Hossain and Sowmya Sarkar contributed 1 wicket each. Thus India finally made 314 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their complete 50 overs.
2nd Innings :
When the Bangla tigers began to chase it was the all experienced Tamim Iqbal and Sowmya Sarkar opened the innings to attain a mammoth target of 315. The opening partnership was broken at 39 runs as Tamim Iqbal was bowled a brilliant delivery by Mohammed Shami for 22 runs off 31 balls with 3 boundaries included under his belt. It was then the talented Soumya Sarkar who could only contribute 33 off 38 with 4 fours included as the Indian bowling attack was tremendously hard to play. It was Shakib Al Hasan the inform WC campaigner made his 4th WC half-century of this tournament and 46th fifty in ODIs that excludes 2 centuries had contributed 66 off 74 with 6 boundaries included. No other Bangladesh middle order batsmen proved their performance and failed to built up a steady partnership. As the experienced wicket-keeper batman Mustafiqur Rahim made only 24 off 23 balls with 3 boundaries included, it was Liton Das, Mosaddek Hossain and Sabbir Rahman just contributed 22, 3 and 36 respectively which was major failure factor to give-up the match to team India. The south paw batting all-rounder Mohammad Saifuddin who registered his 1st WC fifty was not supported by any other Bangla batsmen as they fail short by 28 runs. The world no.1 bowler Jasprit Bumrah picked his 1st 4 wicket-haul in WC and Hardik picked his 1st 3 wicket-haul of this WC, as the rest of the bowlers Bhuveshwar, Shami and Chahal picked 1 wicket each. Thus Bangladesh could only make 286 runs by losing all their 10 wickets in just 48 overs.
Man of the Match(MOM): The Indian vice-captain “Hit-man” Rohit Sharma grabbed the Man of the Match tournament for his 104 runs off 92 balls.
Records: Rohit Sharma registered his 4th WC century in a single tournament who equals Sri Lanka’s Kumara Sangakkara’s 4 WC hundreds in 2011 and also made his 26th century in ODIs.
Rohit Sharma is now in the 2nd position next to Sachin Tendulkar who hold 6 centuries over all of maximum of centuries secured in the history of World cup games.
Shakib Al Haasan is the 1st man to reach 10 plus wickets and 500 plus runs in the history of all World Cups.
Mustafizur Rahman who picked the fiver registered his 1st WC 5 wicket-haul in WC and 3rd in ODIs.