Virat Kohli ties with Sachin, Shakib for most fifty-plus scores in a single World Cup edition

NEW DELHI: Star Indian batsman Virat Kohli has now joined the ranks of legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bangladesh's all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan by recording the highest number of fifty-plus scores in a single edition of the ODI World Cup.
Virat moved closer to breaking another record during the World Cup match between India and Netherlands in Bengaluru. In this game, he scored 51 runs off 56 balls, featuring five fours and a six, maintaining a strike rate of over 91.
This marked Virat's seventh fifty-plus score, including two centuries, in the ongoing World Cup.He shares this distinction with Sachin, who achieved the feat in the 2003 World Cup (comprising one century and six fifties), and Shakib, who also registered seven fifty-plus scores in the 2019 World Cup, including two centuries and five fifties.
Leading the charts as the highest run-scorer in the tournament, Virat amassed 594 runs in nine innings at an impressive average of 99.00, featuring two centuries and five fifties, with his best score being an unbeaten 103.
Coming to the match, Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul hit hundreds while India's top-order batsmen all sparkled as the World Cup hosts, already bound for the semi-finals, posted a mammoth 410-4 from 50 overs against the Netherlands in their final group-stage game.
After their colleagues had perished following quick-fire fifties on a good batting track at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Iyer (128 not out) hit his fourth ton before Rahul (102) joined the party as the duo lit up the stage on Diwali with a 208-run stand.
(With ANI Inputs)