IND vs NZ: Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami achieved special achievements

IND vs NZ: Continuing its excellent performance in the 2023 World Cup, the Indian team has given a crushing defeat to New Zealand by 70 runs in the semi-finals. The heroes of this match were Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Mohammed Shami, who forced New Zealand to kneel with their brilliant performance.

Shreyas Iyer played a brilliant century of 105 runs in 70 balls in this match.

Mohammed Shami shattered many records:-

Mohammed Shami surprised everyone with his performance in this match. In his spell, he took 7 wickets for just 57 runs and along with this he broke many records and got his name registered in golden letters in the pages of cricket history.

Shami has become the fastest bowler to take 50 wickets in the ODI World Cup, leaving Australia’s Mitchell Starc behind. It took only 17 matches for Shami to achieve this milestone. Apart from this, Shami has now also made the record of taking maximum 5 wicket haul in ODI world. In this too, he has achieved this feat 4 times, leaving behind Mitchell Starc. Starc has recorded 5 wicket haul 3 times in his name.

Shami has also become the bowler who bowled the best spell for India in the World Cup. He has given a brilliant performance of 7/57 in this match, leaving behind Ashish Nehra’s 6/23.

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Virat Kohli broke three records of Sachin Tendulkar :-

After this, if we talk about Virat Kohli, he made many records in his name in this match. By scoring his eighth fifty plus score in the 2023 World Cup semi-final, Kohli has broken Tendulkar’s record of scoring most half centuries in a World Cup edition. Kohli has scored 8 half-centuries in this World Cup, leaving behind Tendulkar’s 7 half-centuries.

After this, Kohli became the highest run scorer in a single edition of ODI World Cup history by taking a single on the third ball of the 33rd over. King Kohli has scored 711 runs so far in the World Cup 2023, leaving behind Sachin Tendulkar’s 673 runs in the 2003 World Cup edition.

Kohli became the player who scored most centuries in ODI:-

After this, the biggest record that Virat Kohli has broken is Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries. Kohli scored his century number 50 in this match, leaving Tendulkar behind. In the history of ODI cricket, no player has scored more centuries than Kohli.

Tendulkar scored his 49th century in his 451st ODI innings whereas it took 279 ODI innings for King Kohli to achieve this milestone.

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