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ICC World Cup 2019: India Beats South Africa By 6 Wickets, Rohit Sharma Samshes Hundred In First Match

Mumbai: India will finally excited to get into this tournament, but for Faf du Plessis, almost every wrong game has gone wrong in the last week. He and the fans from around the world of South Africa may have been hoping that his fightback will begin today in the Hampshire Bowl.

Winning the toss South Africa decided to bat first, Just keep fighting and be strong’ Faf du Plessis says he has told his players.

Virat Kohli said he is very excited to finally get started. ‘There’s no bigger motivation than representing your country, let alone captaining your country at a World Cup.

It was a pretyy slow start for SA as they lost their inform batsmen Hashim Amla very early stage of the innings failed to contribute runs for his side.

Bumrah was on fire as he dismissed Quinton De Kock in sixth over of the innings itself SA were 24 for 2.
It was a good partnership between Faf and Dussen but it was Chahal who bowled Du Plessis who scored 38 runs off 54 balls. It was brilliant bowling performance by Indian bowlers due to which Sout Africa was losing their wickets on the contiue basis.

Chris Morris 42 (34) and Andle Phehlukwayo 34 (64) played some good shots their partnership made South Africa score defendable runs of 227 runs in their 50 over innings with the loss of 9 wickets.

Yuzvendra Chahal took 4/51 from his 10 overs followed by Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar provided 2 wickets with each for India.

Chasing the target of 228 runs India also started slowly as they lost Dhawan in sixth over of the innings, Morris and Rabada were playing well both bowlers didn’t provide much room it was tight bowling by South African side.
Meanwhile, Phehlukwayo dismissed Virat, it was short of a length delivery outside off-stump. First slip is set wide and so Quinton de Kock goes flying to his right and pouches this in his right mitt.

India was in pressure as SA were not allowing them to score easily, again t was a good partnership between Rahul and Rohit as India was slowing moving towards their target. But it was Rabada gets the breakthrough! A slower ball outside off stump foxes Rahul, who spoons it to Faf at mid-off.

As India lost some early wicket Vice Captain Rohit Sharma played a sensible inning of 122 runs off 144 balls and scored his first century of ICC World Cup 2019. MS Dhoni contributed well of 34 runs but lost his wicket to Chris Morris.

Hardik Pandya who played a small cameo of 15 off 7 balls by which India won the first match of 2019 ICC World Cup.

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