Agency – The host India has started victoriously in the ODI World Cup cricket. India got off to a good start by defeating Australia by 6 wickets in the match on Sunday. India achieved the target of 200 runs given by Australia in 41.2 overs with the loss of four wickets. India’s three players, who started off with a bad batting, could not score runs. Indian captain Rohit Sharma, opener Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer were dismissed for zero runs. After that, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul, who came into the batting, gave India the victory with an excellent performance. Kohli scored 85 and Rahul scored 97. Similarly, Hardik Pandey was dismissed for 11 runs.
Josh Hazlewood took three wickets and Mitchell Starc took one wicket for Australia. Australia, who won the toss and batted earlier in Chennai, were bowled out for 199 runs in 49 overs. Australia’s Steven Smith scored the highest 46 runs. Similarly, David Warner scored 41 runs, Mitchell Starc scored 28 runs and Marnus Labuschagne scored 27 runs.
In terms of bowling, India’s Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets and Jasprit Bumrah, Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav took 2 and 2 wickets respectively.
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