Team India made a brilliant comeback after being put on backfoot at the rain break as the side registered a close 5 run victory DLS over Bangladesh in the T20 World Cup match on Wednesday. With the win, India have climbed to the top of the table in Group 2, and primed themselves for a spot in the semi finals of the tournament.Arshdeep Singh shined for India with impressive figures of 2 38 after Virat Kohli starred again, scoring an important unbeaten 64 off 44 balls, while KL Rahul also scored a much needed half century 50 off 32 deliveries .After being invited to bat in Adelaide, India lost an early wicket as captain Rohit Sharma was dismissed for 2 in eight deliveries; however, Rahul, alongside Virat Kohli, forged an important 67 run stand during which the former did a majority of the hitting, reaching his half century in 31 deliveries. On the very next ball, however, he was dismissed by Shakib Al Hasan.Suryakumar Yadav, then, played an important innings of 30 off just 16 balls to provide India a run rate boost before Kohli took on the aggressive approach. The India batter smashed eight fours and a six en route to his 44 ball unbeaten knock, as he hit his third fifty of the ongoing edition.
While Hardik Pandya 5 failed to make a mark, Dinesh Karthik faced an unfortunate run out on 7.Axar Patel, too, was dismissed on 7 before Ravichandran Ashwin played an important cameo, smashing a six and a four off in the final over, taking India s score past the 180 run mark.Bangladesh made an incredible start to the run chase thanks to Litton Das, as he took the Indian pace bowling trio of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, and Mohammed Shami to the cleaners. Litton reached his half century in the final over of the Powerplay, facing only 22 deliveries at the time.Soon after his fifty, however, rain stopped the proceedings at Adelaide; when it eventually began over 40 minutes later, Bangladesh were given a revised target of 151 runs to win in 16 overs. Litton was run out on only the second delivery. The Indian bowlers continued to take wickets at key intervals as Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Hooda picked well judged catches near the boundary line.While Najmul Hossain Shanto, who had struggled to get going, was dismissed on 21 off 25 deliveries by Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep picked up two crucial wickets in the 12th over of the innings Afif Hossain 3 and Shakib Al Hasan 13 to put India in command.
In the very next over, Hardik Pandya also sent Yasir Ali and Mosaddek Hossain packing, as India inched closer towards victory.Eventually, Bangladesh couldn t recover from the regular blows as they fell short by 5 runs in Adelaide. With the defeat, Bangladesh, with four points in as many matches, remain third in the points table.When Virat Kohli is batting well, records become a routine. Even when he was not scoring heaps of runs in the last couple of years, the odd milestone came his way. But things started changing from the Asia Cup 2022. Kohli slowly started to get back to his dominating best and records got bigger. With his maiden T20I hundred against Afghanistan, he registered the highest individual score by an Indian in the shortest format of the game 122 off 61 balls . At the start of the T20 World Cup, he went past Rohit Sharma and Martin Guptill to become the highest run scorer in T20Is. Not to mention, his unbeaten 82 off 53 balls against Pakistan not only won India the game from nowhere but was also described as the best T20I innings ever by many including India captain Rohit Sharma.In a must win game against Bangladesh on Wednesday, Kohli once again came out firing.
He started off with an uppish cover drive off Taskin Ahmed and then flashed the next widish delivery hard enough to get it over the slips. Unlike the three matches of the World Cup, where Kohli took his own sweet time adjusting to the bounce and pace of the conditions, Kohli came out with an ultra aggressive intent against Bangladesh.His third boundary came with a deft touch against Mustafizur Rahman. The left arm seamer took the ball away with the angle and Kohli just guided it with an open face past the short third man fielder.In the process, he became the highest run scorer in the history of the T20 World Cup, going past Sri Lankan legend Mahela Jayawardene 1016 runs in 31 matches . Kohli had 1001 runs in 24 matches at the start of this match. He knocked off the record in the 7th over of the Indian innings against Taskin with a single down the on side.Kohli has a staggering average of over 83 in the T20 World Cup in 25 T20 World Cup matches so far. The next best average is of former Australia batter Mike Hussey, who scored 437 runs in 21 T20 World Cup matches.
No other cricketer in the top 10 of the highest scorers list averages above 50.Chris Gayle is on the third spot with 965 runs in 35 matches in the T20 World Cup.India captain Rohit Sharma is at the fourth spot with 921 runs in 37 matches.
