India is the winner! Jadeja scores the go-ahead runs. India earns a perfect score of 5. This was a challenging test, and India passed it as well. They triumph against New Zealand for the first time since the 2003 World Cup. Kohli and Rohit exchange bear hugs. The intensity of the feelings is considerable.

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Once again, Kohli is the talk of the country. Few people now still referred to him as antiquated. Many believed he had passed his prime. But the saying says, "Form is temporary, but class is eternal." Throughout the election, the man shown his class, and today he attended the celebration. He wasn't very bothered by the SLAs, his most recent adversaries. He continued to find a way out. Sometimes, chess-like strategies are used in cricket, and Kohli is an expert at mind games.

Early on, India's choice to bowl first was validated by the pacers. Jasprit Bumrah was accurate, and early hits from Mohammed Siraj and Shami meant they could only produce 34/2 in the PowerPlay, the third-lowest total in that period this World Cup. Mitchell and Ravindra then combined for 159 runs to save New Zealand.

After having several run-ins with DRS and lifelines, Ravindra made the decision to hold India responsible. He hadn't even started when India burned a review on an LBW call against Bumrah's suggestion. The left-hander was given a catch behind call on six off Shami but was able to appeal. Later in the same over, his namesake dropped a knee-high legal catch at backward point, giving him a reprieve. as scoring a half-century off 56 balls, Ravindra was called LBW, but it was reversed as replays showed the ball was pitched outside leg.

Little turn was achieved by the spinners. Mitchell attacked Kuldeep Yadav by hitting two balls straight down the ground in his subsequent overs while Jadeja continued to bowl his ten consecutive deliveries without breaking. He raised his second World Cup half-century in 60 balls and later turned it into a run-a-ball century to serve as the face of New Zealand's counterattack in the middle overs. Mitchell also had a few more life as KL Rahul blew a crucial opportunity from behind and Bumrah dropped another easy catch.

Eventually, Shami gave up the obstinate position, causing the area surrounding Mitchell to crumble. India managed to hold onto one opportunity after three missed ones when Ravindra lofted a ball straight to long-on. The hosts did not allow any boundaries to the power hitters in the 40-ball session that followed. Glenn Phillips broke the tie with a six to welcome Siraj back at the finish, but his cameo came to an end when Rohit pouched safely among three advancing fielders off a top edge off an attempted slog.

In the 48th over, Shami added three more wickets to his total as he precisely executed a pair of yorkers to dismiss Matt Henry's leg-stump and Mitchell Santner's off-stump off consecutive balls. Mitchell, who holed out on the penultimate delivery of their innings, was the coveted victim of his fifth, and a run-out off the next ball completed off the spectacular collapse that lost New Zealand their first game of the tournament.

India's success had been largely due to Rohit's unrelenting style, and the skipper frequently launched an early onslaught. In his 40-ball stint, he skipped down twice to Matt Henry, lofted Trent Boult straight down the wicket, and slog-swept Mitchell Santner for four sixes. But Lockie Ferguson's entrance portended double peril. By dismissing both carefully chosen openers in his first eight balls, the pacer struck twice, undermining India's promising start. While Shubman Gill upper cut a short one straight to third man, Rohit pulled an inside edge into his middle-stump. Although Shreyas Iyer continued going with a flurry of boundaries off the pacer to help India pass the 100-mark, shortly after that, a dense fog cover covered the stadium and prevented play from continuing.

On the opposite side of the forced break, Ferguson let in more boundaries, with Kohli stroking one past covers and flicking another one to the legside in the same over. Iyer struggled against the short ball after the fifty-run partnership, but Boult took advantage of this and removed India's number 4 on 33.

Rachin Ravindra's tight overs throughout his initial stint allowed New Zealand to recover, but Kohli deservedly punished a rare overpitched slot ball with a six. KL Rahul, who had begun slowly, was just about to catch up when New Zealand's calculated review caused the partnership to end just after the fifty-milemark. Santner took the LBW call against Rahul upstairs after being rejected on the field, and the three reds gave him his maiden wicket. After a mix-up with Kohli, he made a brilliant diving attempt in the very next over, which led to the unlucky run out of Suryakumar Yadav.

When India needed another 83 runs in the final 16 overs, Kohli continued unconcerned and teamed up with Jadeja. The all-rounder got things starting with back-to-back boundaries from Ferguson and even escaped an early LBW scare, but he performed the perfect supporting role to Kohli, often assisting in relieving the strain with a crucial boundary. The pair skillfully handled Santner while chipping away with some quick racing between the wickets. With the equation down to a tight 26 off 30, Kohli caught up with a six and a four off a returning Boult to put India firmly in the driver's seat, but an erroneous slog prevented him from scoring his second century of the competition. However, India was just five miles away, so Jadeja finished the paperwork to assist.

Highest partnerships for 6th wicket or below for India in WC
126* - Kapil Dev, Syed Kirmani vs ZIM, Tunbridge Wells, 1983
116 - MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja vs NZ, Manchester, 2019 SF
82* - Kapil Dev, Kiran More vs NZ, Bengaluru, 1987
78 - Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja vs NZ, Dharamsala, 2023
74* - Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina vs AUS, Ahmedabad, 2011 QF

Highest targets successfully chased by India in World Cups:
288 vs Zimbabwe, Auckland, 2015
275 vs Sri Lanka, Mumbai WS, 2011 Final
274 vs Pakistan, Centurion, 2003
274 vs New Zealand, Dharamsala, 2023
273 vs Afghanistan, Delhi, 2023

Most runs in ODIs
18426 - Sachin Tendulkar
14234 - Kumar Sangakkara
13704 - Ricky Ponting
13437 - Virat Kohli
13430 - Sanath Jayasuriya











Brief scores: New Zealand 273 all out in 50 overs (Daryl Mitchell 130, Rachin Ravindra 75; Mohammed Shami 5-54, Kuldeep Yadav 2-73) lost to India 274/6 in 48 overs (Virat Kohli 95, Rohit Sharma 46; Lockie Ferguson 2-63) by 4 wickets