Rohit steadies India as England bowlers check flow of runs

The 29th match of the World Cup 2023 is being played between India and defending champion England at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. England won the toss and chose bowling.

Batting first, the Indian team has scored 131 runs for three wickets in 30 overs. Indian Captain Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul are at the crease. Fifty partnerships have been made between the two.

Rohit Sharma has completed his 54th ODI fifty. He also completed 18 thousand runs in international cricket. Rohit Sharma has become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in this World Cup. He has hit 20 sixes. Rohit left David Warner behind. Rohit has hit 3 sixes so far in this inning.

Shreyas Iyer was out after scoring 4 runs. He was caught by Chris Woakes at the hands of Mark Wood. This is Woakes' second wicket. He also dismissed Shubman Gill (9 runs). Gill could not reach double digits for the first time in 4 innings of this World Cup.

Virat Kohli was out on zero. He was caught by David Willey at the hands of Ben Stokes. Kohli has been out on zero for the first time in his 32-match World Cup career. Overall duck (out on zero) for the 34th time. Sachin came at par with Tendulkar in terms of scoring the most ducks.

Rohit has completed 18 thousand runs in international cricket. He has achieved this achievement in his 457th innings. He has joined the top-5 club of highest run scorers for India. The names of Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid, and Sourav Ganguli are in this club.

Both the teams entered the Lucknow ground without any changes on Sunday. The Indian team has come with 3 pacers and 2 spinners, whereas England has given place to 2 spinners in the playing.

Playing-11 of both teams

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

England: Jos Buttler (captain and wicketkeeper), Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Liam Livingston, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood.