[1/4]Cricket – ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 – India v South Africa – Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India – November 5, 2023 India’s Virat Kohli celebrates after reaching his forty ninth century, equalizing with Sachin Tendulkar’s file of most variety of ODI centuries REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Purchase Licensing Rights
KOLKATA, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Virat Kohli marked his thirty fifth birthday together with his second century of the World Cup whereas Shreyas Iyer scored a fifty as India posted a formidable 326-5 towards South Africa in a conflict between the event’s prime two groups on the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Kohli’s unbeaten 101 contained 10 fours and left him stage with Indian nice Sachin Tendulkar on 49 one-day worldwide tons of as he continued his excellent type by taking his tally previous 500 runs within the event.
He dropped anchor in a third-wicket partnership of 134 with Iyer, who made 77 with seven fours and two sixes, earlier than attending to his ton within the forty ninth over after India went previous 300 runs on a sluggish Kolkata wicket.
India elected to bat first after profitable the toss and took benefit of some wayward tempo bowling by Marco Jansen to make a blazing begin however skipper Rohit Sharma fell for a 24-ball 40 as he regarded to launch first-change Kagiso Rabada over mid-off.
After reaching 91-1 within the powerplay, the hosts misplaced opener Shubman Gill (23) to an unplayable supply from Keshav Maharaj within the eleventh over as South Africa introduced the run-rate beneath management with spin.
Writing by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru
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