India stored their successful run intact on Thursday, as they defeated defending champions England by 68 runs of their T20 World Cup 2024 semi-final conflict in Guyana. The win noticed the Rohit Sharma-led aspect ebook their place in Saturday’s closing recreation towards South Africa in Barbados. This was India’s seventh win of the match after their match towards Eire within the group stage was washed out as a consequence of rain in Florida. South Africa, then again, are additionally unbeaten with eigth wins on the trot heading into the ultimate.
The win over England was India’s forty ninth within the shortest format of the sport beneath the management of Rohit Sharma, who has now turn into probably the most profitable skipper in T20Is, scripting an all-new world document.
Rohit overtook Pakistan captain Babar Azam (48) for many wins as T20I skipper, sustaining India’s second-longest successful streak in T20Is (11).
It was a record-breaking evening for Rohit as he additionally turned simply the fifth Indian captain to rack up 5,000 runs throughout all codecs.
After his influential 57-run knock got here to an finish, Rohit walked again with 5,033 runs beneath his belt throughout all codecs because the Indian skipper.
Stalwart batter Virat Kohli tops the chart with a whopping 12,883 runs to his identify because the Indian skipper in all three codecs.
MS Dhoni, who made his mark together with his management and captaincy expertise, is the second-highest run-scorer because the Indian captain throughout all codecs with a tally of 11,207. Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly are subsequent in keeping with 8,095 and seven,643 runs, respectively.
The scenario was much like the one which India confronted towards Australia. Virat Kohli misplaced his wicket early, and Rishabh Pant went again with out making a lot of an impression.
The stage was set, and as soon as once more, Rohit delivered his artwork within the power-hitting. His 57-run knock was laced with six fours and two towering maximums. His second six marked Rohit’s fiftieth in T20 World Cups. Solely former West Indies iconic opener Chris Gayle has managed to hit extra (63).
His second six additionally helped Rohit deliver up back-to-back half-centuries within the ongoing version of the marquee occasion.
(With ANI Inputs)
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