The captain who fought alone... An easy target for England..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
The captain who fought alone... An easy target for England..!?

India has set a target of 230 runs to win the match against England. The indian team is playing against the england team in the 29th league match of the world cup series. england captain Jos Buttler won the toss and chose to bowl. The england team decided to chase as the chasing teams have mostly won at the lucknow ground. After this, the Rohit Sharma-Shubman Gill partnership was fielded as the opening player for the indian team. In which rohit sharma added runs, Shubman Gill was dismissed for just 9 runs. virat kohli was ducked in 9 balls and shreyas iyer was caught at short ball for 4 runs.
As a result, the indian team lost 3 wickets for 40 runs. After this, rohit sharma - KL rahul combined to show a calm game. Thus the indian team reached 100 runs in 25 overs. After this, the two batsmen of the indian team accelerated the run accumulation a little. But KL rahul, who played well, was suddenly dismissed for 39 runs, and all the fans in the stadium became silent. However, it was expected that rohit sharma, who was raising the score of the indian team, would score a century.
But rohit sharma was bowled by England's Rashid for 87 runs and missed the opportunity to score a century. There can't be a better inning than this. Rohit is selfless. After Rohit Sharma's walk was stopped by the standing fans, Jadeja was dismissed for 8 runs and mohammed shami for 1 run, the indian team lost 7 wickets for 183 runs. But keeping bumrah at one end, suryakumar yadav hit some boundaries. Due to this, the indian team's score crossed 200 runs. He played well and was bowled out for 49 runs, and at the end of 50 overs, the indian team added 229 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. David Willey took 3 wickets and chris Woakes and Adil Rashid took 2 wickets each for England.
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