The victory procession of the Indian Cricket Team continues in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023. Team India defeated Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 302 runs at the historic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This is the seventh consecutive victory of the Indian team in this World Cup. With this victory, it has also become the first team to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup 2023. Team India’s victory against Sri Lanka was very special. In fact, this is the biggest win by the margin of runs recorded by the Indian team over any team in the history of ODI World Cup.
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Earlier, the Indian team had defeated Bermuda by 257 runs in the 2007 World Cup. Apart from the World Cup, this is the second biggest win of the Indian team in the history of ODI format. Earlier in 2023, India had defeated the Sri Lankan team by a huge margin of 317 runs. India has achieved both its biggest wins in the ODI format against Sri Lanka. The form of the Indian team has been quite excellent in this World Cup. Seeing this form of the team, the fans have full hope that after 2011, the Indian team will win the World Cup this time.
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Talking about today’s match, India performed brilliantly in both batting and bowling. Batting first, India scored 357 runs. In this match, Shubman Gill played brilliant innings of 92 runs, Virat Kohli played 88 runs and Shreyas Iyer played brilliant innings of 82 runs.
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After batting, the bowlers of the Indian team wreaked havoc in the match. Indian bowlers did wonders by bowling out the Sri Lankan team for just 55 runs. For India, Mohammed Shami took 5 wickets and Mohammed Siraj took 3 wickets. Apart from these two, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja got 1 success each.
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