World Cup: India beat Afghanistan thanks to Rohit's record-breaking innings
India easily achieved Afghanistan's target of 273 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 35 overs, captain Rohit Sharma played a lightning fast innings of 131 runs off 84 balls, his innings included 5 sixes and 16 fours.
Apart from this, Ishan Kishan remained unbeaten with 47 runs, Virat Kohli remained unbeaten with 55 runs while Shreyas Iyer scored 25 runs.
Rashid Khan dismissed 2 players for Afghanistan, Rohit was awarded the player of the match for his brilliant batting.
Rohit broke many records in the match against Afghanistan
Indian captain Rohit Sharma became the batsman with most sixes in international cricket and most centuries in the World Cup.
Chasing the target, Indian captain Rohit Sharma hit the 554th six of his international career in the innings against Afghanistan, surpassing former West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle.
Chris Gayle hit 553 sixes in his international career, former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi hit 476, New Zealand's Brendon McCullum hit 398 sixes.
Rohit surpassed Tendulkar to score the most centuries in the World Cup
Chasing the target, Rohit Sharma scored a stunning century against Afghanistan after which he overtook Sachin Tendulkar to become the most batsman with 7 centuries in the World Cup.
Rohit scored his seventh century in 19 World Cup innings, previously the record for most centuries in ODI World Cup was held by India's Sachin Tendulkar who scored 6 centuries in 44 innings.
It was Indian captain Rohit Sharma's 31st ODI century.
Fastest World Cup Century by an Indian
Rohit's century against Afghanistan is also the fastest century by India in the World Cup. He scored a century in 63 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 12 fours.
Earlier, former Indian captain Kapil Dev scored a 72-ball century in the 1983 World Cup.
On Wednesday, the match between Afghanistan and India was played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi where Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first.
Afghanistan scored 272 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the allotted 50 overs, Heshmatullah Shahidi was outstanding by scoring 80 runs.
Afghanistan's innings
Afghanistan's first wicket against Hart fell on 32, when Jasprit Bumrah dismissed opener Ibrahim Zadran for 22 runs.
After that, Rahmanullah Garbaz was bowled out by Hardik Pandya for 21 while Rahmat Shah was bowled out by Shardal Thakur for 16 runs.
After 3 wickets for 63, Azmatullah Umar Zai and Hashmatullah Shahidi batted responsibly and took over the team, forming a partnership of 121 runs between the two.
But then Azmatullah Umar Zai scored 62 and Heshmatullah Shahidi got out after scoring 80 runs.
Apart from this, Mohammad Nabi scored 19, Rashid Khan 16, Mujeebur Rahman 10 and Naveen ul Haq scored 9 runs, thus Afghanistan scored 272 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs.
For India, Bumrah took 4 wickets, Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets and Kuldeep Yadav and Thakur took one wicket each.
Points table
If you look at the points table of the ICC World Cup, India is in second place, and New Zealand is in first., Pakistan is at the third place and South Africa is at the fourth place.
The top 4 teams at the end of the group stage will qualify for the semi-finals of the World Cup.
It should be noted that the ODI World Cup match between Pakistan and India will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday, October 14.
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