Iyer and Rahul tons assist India to a 160-run win over the Netherlands, who end on the backside of the group standings.
Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul hit a whole bunch as Cricket World Cup hosts India equipped for the semifinals with a crushing 160-run victory over the Netherlands to maintain their one hundred pc report intact with 9 group wins.
After their colleagues had departed following breezy fifties on a superb M Chinnaswamy Stadium observe, Iyer (128 not out) struck his fourth one-day worldwide (ODI) ton earlier than Rahul (102) exploded because the duo lit up the stage on the Hindu pageant of Diwali to get India to 410-4 on Sunday.
Requiring a report World Cup chase to win, the bottom-placed Dutch aspect obtained good begins from Max O’Dowd (30), Colin Ackermann (35), Sybrand Engelbrecht (45) and Teja Nidamanuru (54), however they by no means threatened and have been dismissed for 250 in 47.5 overs.
Mohammed Siraj (2-29) overcame a throat harm suffered in a dropped catch to dazzle alongside Kuldeep Yadav (2-41), Jasprit Bumrah (2-33) and Ravindra Jadeja (2-49) to safe victory for India, who face New Zealand within the semifinals on Wednesday.
Iyer reached his century in 84 balls and completed with 10 fours and 5 sixes whereas Rahul wanted solely 62 balls for his ton, getting there with two enormous sixes within the final over that took India previous 400.
The duo cast a 208-run partnership – the best fourth-wicket stand in World Cups – as India scored 126 runs of their closing 10 overs to publish the third complete above 400 within the occasion.
India put the Netherlands to the sword after profitable the toss and opting to bat as skipper Rohit Sharma (61) and Shubman Gill (51) smashed boundaries at will to present them an outstanding platform with 91 runs within the powerplay.
Gill was extreme on the bowlers with three fours and 4 sixes, however the world’s top-ranked batsman discovered the person within the deep whereas taking over a brief one from Paul van Meekeren after reaching his twelfth half-century.
The Netherlands chipped away and have been rewarded when Bas de Leede had Rohit caught at broad long-on, however Virat Kohli (51) and Iyer took India previous 200 runs within the twenty ninth over with a 71-run stand.
Kohli delighted the group with a big selection of photographs after a shaky begin to his quest to succeed in 50 ODI tons and eclipse Sachin Tendulkar’s report, however Roelof van der Merwe briefly silenced followers by breaking his stumps with a flatter one.
Nonetheless, Kohli surpassed South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (591) because the main batsman of the 2023 match with 594 runs.
In reply, the Dutch have been by no means within the chase and stored dropping common wickets together with Kohli hanging along with his light medium-pace to assert a primary ODI wicket in 9 years.
With the Dutch crawling of their reply, Rohit threw the ball to Kohli who despatched again opposition captain Scott Edwards, caught behind in his second over off a ball drifting down the leg aspect.
It was solely Kohli’s fifth profession ODI wicket and first since 2014.
The innings folded in 47.5 overs with Rohit ending utilizing his part-time off spin to ship again Nidamanuru.
Rohit final picked an ODI wicket in 2012 and this was solely his tenth profession wicket.