Team India, ODI World Cup 2023: In the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 being hosted by India, the battle for the semi-finals has now become very interesting. Under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma, the Indian team has played 5 matches so far and won all. Apart from this, South Africa is also performing brilliantly. He has also won 4 out of his 5 matches.
In this World Cup, the African team has beaten all the teams with their batting. He has scored the top-2 highest scores in the tournament so far. He scored 428/5 against Sri Lanka and 399/7 against England, while the Indian team has won all the matches by chasing.
India will be on November 5 Vs South Africa match
New Zealand was also considered a strong team in India’s competition, but on October 22, the Indian team proved itself to be the best by defeating the Kiwi team.
If you look at the statistics, there are still some major weaknesses in both teams. One such weakness is also in the Indian team. Fans are afraid that this weakness may become heavy in the semi-finals. This weakness is to win the match while batting first. That is, so far the Indian team has won all 5 matches of the World Cup.
In such a situation, Rohit and Brigade do not know whether they are capable of winning the match if they have to bat first. In batting first, along with the batsmen, the bowlers will also be tested. Because there is pressure in front of the batsmen to score big when batting first. After this, there is a big pressure on the bowlers to defend the target. Only then will the Indian team realize its true potential.
Africa is ahead in the most sixes in this World Cup
South Africa: 59 sixes
New Zealand: 42 sixes
Australia: 41 sixes
Indian team: 35 sixes
Sri Lanka: 31 sixes
The perfect combination of bowlers in the Indian team
So far, the Indian team has played matches with three fast bowlers, two spinners (also all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja) and a fast bowling all-rounder Hardik Pandya. This combination is giving a lot of strength to the team. This combination is enough to overthrow any opposition team.
Fast bowler Shardul Thakur took 2 wickets in 3 matches. While spinner Ravichandran Ashwin got a chance to play a match, in which he took one wicket. Mohammed Shami got a chance to play the first match against New Zealand, in which he was the Player of the Match with 5 wickets. Ravindra Jadeja (7) and Mohammed Siraj (6) have played all 5 matches.
Schedule of the remaining matches of the Indian team:
29 October vs England , Lucknow
November 2 vs Sri Lanka, Mumbai
November 5 vs South Africa, Kolkata
November 12 vs Netherlands, Bengaluru
Schedule of the remaining matches of South Africa:
October 26 vs Pakistan, Chennai
1 November vs New Zealand, Pune
November 5 vs India, Kolkata
10 November vs Afghanistan, Ahmedabad
Pandya’s injury is also a big weakness of the team.?
However, another weakness of the Indian team is now that star all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been out of the team for a few matches due to injury. This has given the team a little shock, but without him, a strong team like New Zealand has also been defeated. In this match, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja made up for Pandya’s lack. In such a situation, the team cannot be considered weak at all Have.
Best Economy Rate Is The Power Of Indian Bowlers
One of the biggest strengths of Indian bowling has also been that everyone has bowled the most economical with the best economy rate and in this case also Indian bowlers are at the forefront. Ashwin is at the top of the list of bowlers with the best economy rate in the World Cup 2023, whose economy rate is 3.40.
After that, Bumrah’s economy rate has been 3.80. Jadeja is at number three, whose economy rate is 3.97. However, the economy rate of the African team’s bowlers has been very poor compared to India. Keshav Maharaj has the best economy rate in his team, which is 4.60.
African team playing without a regular captain
At the same time, one good thing has also been seen in the matches for the Indian team so far that captain Rohit Sharma is making good use of his bowlers, he is rotating fast bowlers and spinners better.
South Africa, on the other hand, are troubled by the injury of their regular captain Temba Bavuma, although despite this, the team has performed well under the captaincy of Aiden Markram.
Record for most runs in this World Cup
Quinton de Kock – 5 matches – 407 runs
Virat Kohli – 5 matches – 354 runs
David Warner – 5 matches – 332 runs
Rohit Sharma – 5 matches – 311 runs
Mohammad Rizwan – 5 matches – 302 runs
The Indian team has Chase Master Kohli
Indian players have shown their fighting spirit during the chase, especially the fans have given Virat Kohli the title of Chase Master. It would not be wrong to say that 4 out of 5 matches have been won on the basis of Kohli. During this time Kohli has scored 85, 55 not out, 16, 103 not out and 95 runs. In all these matches, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya and Jadeja have got a lot of support, all of whom have made the opposition bowlers awe.
Africa sweats while chasing
South Africa, on the other hand, have won 4 out of 5 matches by batting first, although they have also lost one match to a weaker team like the Netherlands. Which is the biggest strength of the Indian team at this time.
The big thing is that in the 4 matches that the African team has won while batting first, the victory margin has been more than 100 runs. That is, they have won in a very dominating style. But as soon as the situation of changing the target was created, the whole team collapsed.
However, Quinton de Kock and Aiden Markram are in tremendous form in the African team. Markram has also scored the second fastest century in World Cup history on 49 balls on the Delhi ground. This century came against Sri Lanka. But all these players flopped against the Netherlands during the chase.
Indian team’s record in ODIs
Total ODIs: 1046
Match won: 552
Won by batting first: 239
Won later batting: 313
South African team’s record in ODIs
Total ODIs: 664
Match won: 406
Won while batting first: 208
He later won while batting: 198
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