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Edgbaston, Birmingham: A superb unbeaten century (123* off 129 balls) from Rohit Sharma and a scintillating knock of 96 off 78 balls from Virat Kohli helped India beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in the semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Thursday. Now India will play Pakistan in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ecstatic about the win, Indian skipper Virat Kohli said that it was display another complete game by his team. \u201cWe needed to have a clean, collective game. We didn’t expect to win by nine wickets, but that’s the quality of our top order.\u201d<\/p>\n
Talking about the fantastic bowling from Kedar Jadhav, Kohli said that he\u2019s not a surprise package. \u201cHe’s a smart guy, he knows where to pitch the ball and see what the wicket is offering. It could have been close to 300,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Talking about his batting the skipper said, \u201cI wanted to give myself some time, 10-15 balls. Last time, we lost a wicket, so I had to adapt, I like those challenges. I grew in confidence. When you’re coming onto the short ball, you know you’re playing well. We’re taking it as any other game, I know that’s boring but that’s our mindset. Never a worry when your middle order isn’t batting too much. Everyone is hitting the ball magnificently in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rohit Sharma, who was Man of the Match said: \u201cIt was a great knock, especially when it comes on a winning note. I was trying to get a big one. I could not get that in the last two games. I was quite determined today. The wicket was brilliant. I kept telling myself to bat as much as possible. We’ve been playing good cricket. Now there is one last hurdle, a big game against Pakistan.\u201d <\/p>\n
Speaking about the form of Virat Kohli, Sharma said, \u201cIt felt like he was batting overnight. As a captain, he was brilliant.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza said: \u201cWe could have scored 300, even 320, but our set batsmen getting out was a setback to us. Next time, we’ll come back strongly. We need to learn. Skill-wise we’re fine, but mentally we need to be stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Edgbaston, Birmingham: A superb unbeaten century (123* off 129 balls) from Rohit Sharma and a scintillating knock of 96 off 78 balls from Virat Kohli helped India beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in the semi-final of ICC Champions Trophy at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Thursday. Now India will play Pakistan in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ecstatic about the win, Indian skipper Virat Kohli said that it was display another complete game by his team. \u201cWe needed to have a clean, collective game. We didn’t expect to win by nine wickets, but that’s the quality of our top order.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3513,8261,466,8581,724,542],"class_list":["post-35004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-icc-champions-trophy","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kedar-jadhav","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-virat-kohli"],"yoast_head":"\n