T20 World Cup: India thrash Namibia in Kohli’s final recreation as skipper

India, who bowed out of the match on Sunday, rode on a 87-run opening stand between Rohit Sharma, who hit 56, and KL Rahul, who made an unbeaten 54, to achieve their goal of 133 in 15.2 overs in Dubai.

India, the 2007 champions, completed the match with three wins from 5 Tremendous 12 matches however missed out on the semi-finals.

Namibia signed off with a single win of their first look within the Tremendous 12 stage of the T20 World Cup.

Indian spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets every to arrange the victory after they stored Namibia to 132 for eight.

David Wiese scored 26 off 25 balls and lifted Namibia from a precarious 94-7 to a decent whole, but it surely was not sufficient to problem a strong Indian batting line-up which got here good in the direction of the enterprise finish of the match.

Rohit, who stays the frontrunner to take over the T20 duties from Kohli, hit his second half-century of the competitors.

Rohit lastly fell to Jan Frylinck’s left-arm medium tempo however solely after he smashed seven fours and two sixes in his 37-ball knock.

Rahul stored up the tempo to make his third consecutive fifty and struck the profitable boundary.

Suryakumar Yadav hit an unbeaten 25 off 19 balls.

India had solely managed to submit 151 and 110 of their opening two losses towards Pakistan and New Zealand that dented their probabilities of making the semi-finals.

New Zealand beat Afghanistan on Sunday to eradicate India from the competitors and be part of Pakistan because the groups into the ultimate 4 from Group 2.

Within the closing Tremendous 12 match, the Indian bowlers took management after tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah despatched again Michael van Lingen for 14 to finish a 33-run opening stand.

Jadeja struck 3 times along with his left-arm spin and off-spinner Ashwin additionally rattled the Namibian center and decrease order with figures of 3-20.

Wiese placed on 23 for the eighth wicket with Frylinck, who made an unbeaten 15, so as to add helpful runs within the closing few overs.

Quantity 10 Ruben Trumpelmann made 13 from six balls, together with a six and a 4 within the twentieth over from Mohammed Shami, however Namibia’s whole was not sufficient.

Groups

India: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (capt), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rahul Chahar, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah

Namibia: Stephan Baard, Michael van Lingen, Craig Williams, Gerhard Erasmus (capt), Zane Inexperienced (wk), David Wiese, Jan Frylinck, JJ Smit, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Ruben Trumpelmann, Bernard Scholtz