India reached the final of the World Cup due to the brilliant performance of Shami, Iyer and Kohli.

Mumbai (Uttam Hindu News) – Mohammed Shami’s magic and his impeccable seam bowling took India out of a difficult situation on the batting paradise pitch of Wankhede Stadium here on Wednesday.

The fast bowler took 7 wickets for 57 runs, which helped India defeat New Zealand by 70 runs and enter the final of the ICC ODI World Cup. Daryl Mitchell’s courageous innings of 134 runs went in vain. Ultimately he flicked Shami high up to midwicket. Mitchell and captain Kane Williamson added 181 runs for the third wicket before Shami was caught at square leg for 69. After this, he got the same batsman caught out by Jasprit Bumrah at mid-on. After this Shami immediately trapped Tom Latham on zero.

He had earlier dismissed openers Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra on balls that were away from the left-handers off the seam. This was efficient bowling on a calm pitch.

After the fall of the fourth wicket, Glenn Phillips scored 41 runs from 33 balls until, slightly below his best performance on the day, Bumrah dismissed him at Widish long-off.

Then, left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav, who turned the odd ball to a great extent, got his reward when Mark Chapman slog swept him to deep square leg.

However, on Wednesday, Ravindra Jadeja was seen bowling too fast for a slow left-arm spinner.

Earlier, Shreyas Iyer repaid the trust reposed in him by the team management. Selected to bat at number 4 in the tournament, his stature has grown with every innings in the competition. On Wednesday, he scored 105 runs with the help of eight sixes at a strike rate of 150 in 70 balls in a brilliant performance by the Indian batsmen. Iyer has undoubtedly become a class act on Indian wickets.

In comparison, veteran Virat Kohli’s century looked like a leisurely performance. He revealed during the interval that he had been appointed as a sheet anchor by the team’s think-tank.

“I have been given a role in this tournament and I am trying to go deep,” he commented. Nevertheless, it was a history-making afternoon for Kohli, perhaps the greatest One Day International of all time. The batsman was there – and Sir Vivian Richards, the West Indies master-blaster of the 70s and 80s, was in the audience to watch it. ,

Kohli’s century was his 50th century, thus surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries. With his century being his 80th, his run tally in the current edition has also overtaken Tendulkar’s total of 673 runs in the 2003 World Cup. Tendulkar described him as a ‘Virat’ (huge) player on X.

Kohli and Iyer added 163 runs. Between the fall of the first and second wickets, 256 runs were scored – this included the retirement of the talented Shubman Gill hurt when he was batting on 79 off 66 balls, which included three sixes.

Gill was suffering from cramps due to the 35 degree centigrade afternoon temperature and seaside humidity. This left the stage empty for Iyer to play his powerful innings. Gill returned for a while and K.L. Remained unbeaten with Rahul. He scored 39 runs in 20 balls. India’s players scored 397/4 in the stipulated 50 overs, giving New Zealand a target of 398 runs to win. No team had ever chased such a target in a World Cup match and the peace of the pitch or captain Williamson and That wasn’t going to happen, despite the relationship between Mitchell. Of course, the Black Caps had almost chased down 390 against Australia in the league stage. This was the second time that India were playing a World Cup semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium. The first, in 1987, ended in misery for the home team, when England’s Graham Gooch outclassed the Indian spinners and India were eliminated from that championship as a result.

Indeed, pin-drop silence greeted the sixes from the New Zealand batsmen as Williamson and Mitchell put up a spirited challenge. India captain Rohit Sharma, who remained calm when India took the field, is the first batsman to hit sixes in this tournament. The form has been on suicide pilot mode and as a result he has lost his wicket more than once.