Shubman Gill-led Team India has taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match series by defeating New Zealand by 4 wickets in the first ODI. With this victory, India created a new history. India chased the target of 301 runs in 49 overs against New Zealand. With this, Team India was successful in writing a new history. This is the 20th time that India has chased the target of more than 300 runs in ODI cricket, whereas no other team in the world has been able to do so more than 15 times. The hero of this run chase of Team India was chase master Virat Kohli, who played a brilliant inning of 93 runs, although he missed his century by just 7 runs.
We defeated the world number 1 team…what is the New Zealand captain proud of?
India holds the world record for chasing the target of more than 300 runs most number of times in ODI cricket. Team India has become the first team in the world to achieve this feat for the 20th time. England is at the second position, having chased the score of more than 300 in ODIs 15 times. Pakistan is at fourth position in the list.
Teams chasing the maximum target of more than 300 runs in ODI
20 – India*
15 – England
14 – Australia
12 – Pakistan
11 – New Zealand / Sri Lanka
Kohli gives all the awards to his mother, you will become emotional after knowing the reason
Talking about the match, after losing the toss and opting to bat first, the New Zealand team scored 300 runs on the board at the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. There was a partnership of 117 runs for the first wicket between Devon Conway and Henry Nicholas, at that time it seemed that the Kiwi team could easily cross the score of 350, but due to the poor performance of the middle order, the team stopped at 300. Daryl Mitchell played the highest innings of 84 runs. Team India, which was chasing the target of 301, did not get a good start, Rohit Sharma was out on a personal score of 26. However, after this, Virat Kohli, who came to support captain Shubman Gill, made a century partnership for the second wicket. Gill scored 56 runs and Kohli scored 93 runs. Coming at number-4, Shreyas Iyer also played an inning of 49 runs. Harshit Rana also made this target easy for India by playing an inning of 29 runs. Whereas KL Rahul finished the match by scoring 29 unbeaten runs.
