India continued the supreme run in the ongoing World Cup and defeated New Zealand by four wickets in Dharamsala on Sunday.
India, who were asked to chase a stiff 274, wrapped the proceedings with two overs to spare. Virat Kohli was the leading figure in India's run chase but he missed out on a well-deserved century.
During the course of his innings, Kohli was involved in three fifty-plus stands (52 with Shreyas Iyer, 54 with KL Rahul, and 78 with Ravindra Jadeja).
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave India a strong start. The pair mostly dealt in boundaries and added 71 runs for the first wicket before Lockie Ferguson cleaned up Rohit for 46(40).
Earlier, Mohammed Shami led India's recovery in the last 10 overs with a five-wicket haul in his first match of this World Cup
New Zealand looked set to get somewhere close to, if not beyond, 300 runs during Daryl Mitchell and Rachin Ravindra's 159-run stand that came in just 152 balls.
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While Mitchell went on to play a rather colossal innings, scoring 130 in 127 balls, New Zealand could score just 54 runs in the last 10 overs and lost six wickets.
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