India VS Zimbabwe - World Cup Match 40

Suresh Raina (110) and Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (85) joined in an unbeaten fifth wicket association of 196 at Eden Park to give their group a sixth progressive triumph in the competition. The win had no impact on the gathering standings as India was guaranteed of top place in Pool B paying little heed to the outcome while Zimbabwe had as of now been wiped out.

Zimbabwe skipper Brendan Taylor was the day's individual saint, praising his last global before taking up an English province decrease by scoring 138 in his group's 287 hard and fast from 48.5 overs. Taylor arrived at his eighth one-day global hundred, a Zimbabwe record, with a slope shot off Mohammed Shami which controlled the ball over third man for a six. He was additionally the first Zimbabwe batsman to score sequential hundreds of years in a World Cup. The Zimbabwe captain then struck three fours and two sixes off an over from left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja to turn into the second-most elevated run scorer in the competition before he was gotten off Mohit Sharma. 

Taylor included 93 for the fourth wicket with Sean Williams (50) who raised three sixes to leg off Ravichandran Ashwin before the off-spinner took his requital by holding a sharp got and-played possibility. Opening bowler Tinashe Panyangara shook the Indians by catching the wickets of openers Rohit Sharma (16) and Shikhar Dhawan (4) in the same over. Ajinkya Rahane (19) played some nice looking drives before he was run out attempting to recapture his wrinkle after a misconception with his accomplice Virat Kholi. India were into a bad situation when Kholi was rocked the bowling alley around his legs for 38 attempting to scope off-spinner Sikandar Raza before Raina discovered his timing to hit Williams' left-arm turn into the swarm from progressive conveyances. 

The stylish left-hander got a chance on 47 when Hamilton Masakadza dropped a basic risk off Raza at short fine-leg from a top-edged breadth. Raina hit an enormous six into over wide long-on while Dhoni hit hard and ran harder as the pair raised their ninth century stand in one-day internationals. The Zimbabwe fielding started to vacillate and the knocking down some pins got to be more unpredictable and Raina finished his first World Cup century and his fifth in one-day internationals from 94 balls. Dhoni secured the triumph with eight balls to extra by snaring a six.