India won the first one-day match by 6 wickets with Australia in World Cup 2023

In the first one-day of India, India won the match by 6 wickets due to great performance in batting and bowling. After winning this match, India was placed in the 5th position with 2 points in the points table of World Cup 2023.

Earlier, Australia won the toss and chose to bat first and was all out at only 199 runs in 49.3 overs due to great bowling by Ravindra Jadeja 3/28 (10), Jasprit Bumrah 2/35 (10), Kuldeep Yadav 2/42 (10), Ravichandran Ashwin 1/34 (10), Mohammad Siraj 1/26 (6), and Hardik Pandya 1/28 (3). Steve Smith 46 (71), David Warner 41 (52), and Mitchell Starc 28 (35) were good batting from the Australian side. After this inning, Australia set a low target of 200 runs in 50 overs for India to win this match.

During chasing, India loses 3 wickets in only 2 runs.  The great partnership of 165 runs between K.L. Rahul 97* (115), and Virat Kohli 85 (116) helps India to chase the target of 200 runs in only 41.2 overs and win this match easily by 6 wickets with Australia. Both Josh Hazlewood 3/38 (9), and Mitchell Starc 1/31 (8) were good bowling from the Australian side.

K.L. Rahul 97* (115), was declared as the Player of the Match due to his great performance in batting in this match.

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