Watch: Virat Kohli was bowled by Roelof van der Merwe soon after crossing his 71st ODI fifty in the India-Netherlands clash at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru today (November 12).
India opted to play the opening match against the Netherlands on a sunny afternoon in Bengaluru. Although the match was on the back foot in terms of points table, India went into the match unchanged and started in their usual attacking fashion.
Shubman Gill scored the first six runs of the game off the last ball of the third over against Aryan Dutt. Rohit Sharma then joined the party and both openers were happy with anything that took the Dutch bowler off track even a little.
Scoring 37 runs in the first five overs and 54 runs in the next five, India finished the first powerplay 91-0. Gill reached his half-century off just 30 balls in the 12th over, but then missed a four ball when top-edging Paul van Meekeren’s pull shot.
Virat Kohli reached the halfway point with India’s score at 100-1 after 11.5 overs. Holland was very strict in planning and execution as Kohli initially found it difficult for him to go ahead with the plan. He hit 5 of his 10 pitches, and Basde tried to take a long ball from his lead over the middle of the field, but ended up almost getting caught.
But then Kohli found his rhythm. He improved from 12 for 20 balls to 38 for 40, even hitting a rare swing shot against Dutt. On the last ball of the 28th over, Kohli took a single off Van Mee Kelen to reach his 71st ODI fifty and in the process raised hopes of reaching his 50th ODI his ton. Ta.
However, a back-of-length ball from Van der Merwe slipped straight through and blocked Kohli’s off-stump as he tried to step back to cut out, ending the innings with 51 off 56 balls. finished. , India’s score was 3 for 200.
Watch Roelof van der Merwe castle Virat Kohli’s off stump right after his half-century:
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