India continued their winning juggernaut in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 as they beat New Zealand by four wickets on Sunday, October 22 at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala. After being put in to bat first, Daryl Mitchell (130 off 127) guided New Zealand to a total of 273 in their allotted 50 overs.
In reply, India chased down the target in 48 overs courtesy of another Virat Kohli masterclass who scored 95 (104) to help India register their fifth consecutive game in the ongoing World Cup. While Kohli’s innings was praised by pundits all over the world, the chase master also got special praise from his wife and Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma.
Anushka took to Instagram to share clips of Kohli’s innings on her story and wrote, “Always Proud of You,” and “Storm Chaser”.
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Check Anushka Sharma’s Instagram story for Virat Kohli here:
Anushka sharma share her husband story on insta👏🔥#INDvsNZ #shami#ShubmanGill #SaraTendulkar#INDvsBAN #Abhiya #Abhisha #Elvisha #Israel_under_att pic.twitter.com/UKMGXzVZgF
— Imran Ranjha🇵🇰 (@Imran_Ranjha55) October 22, 2023
Anushka insta stories ❤️
Proud wife🤌🦋✨️#AnushkaSharma #ViratKohli𓃵 pic.twitter.com/THFqQblfGL— Nush (@nerdybookwormm) October 22, 2023
Kohli, unfortunately, missed out on his second consecutive hundred in the tournament as he got dismissed while trying to achieve the milestone with a big heave over deep mid-wicket. However, he was caught by Glenn Phillips in the deep leaving India just five runs away from the victory on 269/6 after 47.4 overs.
The Delhi-born cricketer missed out on levelling the legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most ODI hundreds (49) by just five runs. Kohli recently scored his 48th ODI hundred against Bangladesh during India’s fourth fixture of the World Cup in Pune. With four league matches and knockout games yet to be played in the tournament, the star batter will get enough chances to surpass his idol in the ongoing cricketing extravaganza.
Kohli becomes leading run-scorer in ODI World Cup 2023
The 34-year-old also climbed to the top of the leading run scorer’s list in the tournament during his knock as he now has 354 runs from five matches at an average of 118 and a strike rate of 90.53 with one hundred and three fifties to his name.
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Meanwhile, following their win, India also climbed to the top of the points table with ten points from five matches. They will next face England on Sunday, October 29 at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.
