Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli stand laid the platform for us: Shreyas Iyer | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

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Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli stand laid the platform for us: Shreyas Iyer | Cricket Information – Occasions of India



NEW DELHI: Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer slammed enticing half-centuries as India registered their highest complete of the 2023 ODI World Cup in opposition to Sri Lanka in Mumbai on Thursday.
As India amassed 357 for 8 after being put into bat, Gill fired a run-a-ball 92 whereas Kohli went on to attain a 94-ball 88 earlier than lacking out on a record-equalling ton.
Shyreyas too hit a belligerent 56-ball 82 within the latter half of the innings however the platform for the huge complete was laid by report 189-run stand between Gill and Kohli — the very best partnership for India in a World Cup sport at dwelling.
Shreyas in the course of the mid-innings break lauded the Gill-Kohli effort and asserted that the partnership was fairly essential after India misplaced skipper Rohit Sharma second-ball into the competition.
Shreyas additionally stated that the Wankhede wicket was wonderful to bat on regardless of the odd balls holding a bit.
“I believe it was a fairly good wicket to bat, the ball was approaching and there was some good bounce. I may accept some time after which play my photographs. It was magnificent to look at (on the partnership between Gill and Kohli), the way in which they took the singles, twos and the boundaries, they laid the platform for us. We had been instructed that the odd ball was stopping and holding a bit, so it was partnership that they’d and it helped us afterward,” Shreyas stated in the course of the mid innings break.
India are in search of a seventh straight win on the ongoing ODI World Cup.
Rohit and co. stay the one workforce within the event, who hasn’t misplaced a match but.