Varun Chakravarthy starred with 5 wickets for 40 runs as India defeated New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday and topped the Group A desk to arrange a semifinal date with Australia on Tuesday. In the meantime, Group B desk toppers South Africa will now face New Zealand within the second semifinal in Lahore on Wednesday.
Kane Williamson scored a preventing 81 however he was despatched again by Axar Patel who together with Hardik Pandya and Ravindra Jadeja took 1 wicket apiece. India will probably be cautious of their semifinal opponents who even with a depleted squad pose a menace. The final time these two sides met in an ICC 50-over event, Australia had walked out because the ODI World Cup 2023 champions in Ahmedabad.
Earlier, Shreyas Iyer produced a composed fifty beneath stress however New Zealand, led by pacer Mark Henry, managed to stifle India to an under-par 249 for 9.
Iyer (79 off 98 balls) shared a well-paced 98 runs alliance with Axar Patel (42 off 61 balls) for the fourth wicket and Hardik Pandya (45 off 45) performed a quick-fire innings in the direction of the tip to assist India survive a top-order meltdown.
Henry (5/42) was probably the most profitable bowler for New Zealand, who additionally made an impression with their terrific fielding.
It was a barely completely different scenario for Iyer as in the previous couple of matches, the highest three batters had given him the cushion of runs.
It had enabled him to bat with some extent of freedom in these matches. However right here he needed to construct the innings from the scratch and he did that job with perfection whereas making fifty off 75 balls with a single off Rachin Ravindra.
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The pure aptitude was on present on events as Iyer as soon as lofted pacer Will O’Rourke for a six over lengthy one and Axar gave him glorious firm on a slightly sluggish pitch.
However Axar departed in opposition to the movement of the sport when his try to scoop Ravindra over brief advantageous leg ended within the palms of Kane Williamson.
A century was there for the taking for Iyer however a feeble pull off O’Rourke was wolfed by up Younger contained in the covers.
(With company inputs)
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