India vs Australia World Cup 2023: The Rohit Sharma-led Indian team won by 6 wickets in their World Cup 2023 opener against Australia on Sunday, October 8. With this, India started their World Cup campaign in a winning fashion. After this victory of India, some such figures have come out, after which it is said that Team India has decided to play the semi-finals. Yes, whenever the Indian team has started its World Cup campaign with a win, then Team India has managed to reach the semi-finals. Let’s understand in the statistics-
Team India first won its opening match in the 1983 World Cup, then India managed to lift the title along with reaching the semi-finals. After this, during the 1996 and 2003 World Cup, India won its first match and the team also managed to reach the semi-finals.
Since 2011, India has been winning its World Cup opening match continuously and has been cutting the ticket to the semi-finals. Looking at these figures, it is being speculated that this time also Team India’s semi-final ticket has been confirmed.
Talking about Australia, India has ended their 24-year-old winning streak in their World Cup opening match. Australia has been winning its first match of the World Cup continuously since 1999, during which this team has also won the title four times. Australia lost their last World Cup opening match in 1996.
Talking about the match, the batsmen of the Australian team, who won the toss and batted first, were very disappointed. The entire team was reduced to a score of just 199. No one would have expected such a start from the 5-time world champion team. David Warner and Steve Smith crossed the 40-run mark during this period, but no Australian batsman managed to score a half-century. At the same time, all Indian bowlers got at least 1 wicket. Ravindra Jadeja gave India the lead in the match by taking the most three wickets. Jadeja gave Australia three big shocks in the form of Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and Alex Carey.
Chasing an easy target of 200 runs, the Indian team was already pushed on the back foot by the Kangaroos with three shocks in two overs. Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer along with captain Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion without opening an account. After this, Virat Kohli along with KL Rahul shared a 165-run partnership for the fourth wicket to not only take the team out of trouble but also brought the team closer to victory. Kohli scored 85 runs while KL Rahul scored an unbeaten 97 runs. Rahul was awarded the Player of the Match award for this innings.
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