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Rohit Sharma ton sends India into World Cup semi-finals

An opening stand of one hundred eighty between Rohit Sharma (104) and KL Rahul (77) set the foundations for India's 314-9 and Bangla Desh came up short as they were all out for 286 back to finish their own hopes of reaching the last four.


It was Rohit's fourth century of the tournament, though he took full advantage of being born by Tamim Iqbal on 9, as he equalled the record set by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, WHO scored four tons at the 2015 tournament.


The match was compete on identical wicket that saw Asian nation suffer their initial defeat of the tournament once they lost to European country on Sunday. however when Virat Kohli won the toss and selected to bat, Rohit and Rahul showed there was no hangover from that loss as they created the foremost of the conditions, together with the short boundary, with their tournament-best first-wicket partnership.

Rohit's destiny came once Tamim spilled a straightforward chance at mid-wicket off the bowling of Mustafizur Rahman in exactly the fifth over, and also the gap combine went on to require the full to 69-0 when ten overs with some spectacular touching. Rohit joined Sachin Tendulkar in turning into solely the second Asian nation hitter to attain five hundred runs at 2 completely different World Cups once he reached sixty and he had seized because the tournament's highest run scorer, with 544, once he eventually fell for 104 within the thirtieth over, clipping Soumya Sarkar to Liton Das at cowl, together with his 92-ball innings together with seven fours and 5 sixes.

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