The high-profile game between India and New Zealand is currently underway at the HPCA Stadium in Dharmasala. Both teams have shown some great performances so far. It started with India winning the toss and electing to bowl first. New Zealand finished the first inning with a 273 all-out on the last ball of the innings.
India had a good start to the chase with a 71-run stand for the first wicket in just 11.1 overs. Rohit Sharma got out after scoring 46 off 40 balls, with four boundaries and four sixes. Shubman Gill also supported him with a 31-ball 26 with four boundaries in it.
During his short innings, Shubman Gill went on to register a world record and write his name in the record book. Gill completed 2000 ODI runs in his career and took 38 innings to do so. With this, he became the fastest batter to reach the landmark.
Former South African star Hashim Amla held the previous best record in 40 innings, and Gill has taken two fewer innings than him now. Zaheer Abbas, Kevin Pietersen, Babar Azam, and Rassie van der Dussen are joint-third fastest with 45 innings.
Apart from this, Rohit Sharma also went past AB de Villiers and hit the second-most sixes in World Cup history. Rohit smashed four sixes in his inning and has hit a total of 40 sixes in 22 innings, and De Villiers had 37 sixes in 23 innings. Chris Gayle is at the top with 49 sixes off 35 balls.
The way Rohit is going, it looks like he will catch him soon. Speaking of the game, Daryl Mitchell scored a brilliant hundred and made 130 runs in the first inning. It was the first time since the 1975 World Cup that a Kiwi batter had hit a hundred against India. For India, Mohammed Shami, who played the first game of the tournament, picks up 5/54. It was his second World Cup fifer and he became the first Indian to do so.
