Mumbai There is going to be a great match once again in the World Cup today. The first semi-final match of the World Cup will be played between India and New Zealand at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This time the Indian team led by Rohit Sharma won all its 9 matches in the league matches of the World Cup and reached the top in the points table. At the same time, New Zealand stood fourth after winning 5 out of its 9 matches. India has also defeated New Zealand in league matches. The Indian team has performed brilliantly in batting and bowling and because of this, the team led by Rohit Sharma is considered strong against New Zealand in today’s match. In this match, India has a chance to settle old scores. New Zealand had defeated India in the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2019. Apart from this, India was also defeated by New Zealand in the 2021 World Test Championship final. India would like to take revenge for these two defeats from the Kiwi team today.
The Indian team has played 21 ODI matches so far at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Of these, he won 12. New Zealand played 3 matches at Wankhede Stadium and won 2. The teams of India and New Zealand have clashed before at the Wankhede Stadium. India had lost in that match. Talking about the ODI matches between India and New Zealand, while chasing the target, India won 18 out of 30 matches and lost 12. At the same time, by batting first, India defeated New Zealand in 11 matches and had to face defeat in 14 matches. In such a situation, the toss is going to be of great importance at Wankhede Stadium. However, captain Rohit Sharma has said that he knows the Wankhede pitch very well and the toss does not matter to him.
Talking about this World Cup, captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli shone among the Indian batsmen. Rohit scored 503 runs in this World Cup, while Virat Kohli, who is looking for his 50th century, has scored 593 runs so far. Whereas Shubman Gill has scored 270 runs so far. Whereas, in bowling, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj have given tremendous blows to the opposition and have won all the World Cup matches so far for India.