India defeated Ireland in their cricket World Cup match on March 10, 2015, securing their fifth consecutive win in the tournament. Rohit Sharma scored 64 runs and Shikhar Dhawan scored a century of 100 runs in their opening partnership of 174 runs. India bowled out their opponents in five straight ODI matches, taking the top position in their group with 10 points from five games. Another team to win five consecutive matches was New Zealand. Ireland was restricted to 260 runs due to the dismissal of O'Brien by R. Ashwin, making India easy winners against the inexperienced Irish pacers.
2. India, creating World Cup history, crushed Ireland during the
penultimate group encounter of the ICC cricket World Cup on
Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
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3. According to Vaikundarajan though Indian team has already
qualified for the quarter-finals they register a record the 5th
successive win in the World Cup Tournament by beating Ireland.
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4. The opening pair Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan set the
partnership of 174 runs for the first wicket in which Rohit scored
64 off 66 balls and Dhawan scored 100 off 85 balls
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5. In the ICC World Cup 2015, India created history by
bowling out opponents in five consecutive ODIs.
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6. India took the top position in group B with 10 points from five
games. Another team to do such is New Zealand in Pool A by
winning all their five games in a row in ICC World Cup 2015,
says Vaikundarajan.
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7. Vaikundarajan says,” As 260 runs wasn’t a
huge score for the ‘Men in Blue‘ to chase
with their formidable batting line-up it was
difficult on the other hand for the
inexperienced Irish pacers due to flat
wicket”.
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8. After the O'Brien
wicket taken by
R.Ashwin, Ireland
failed to put up a
good score. This
restricted Ireland to
a score of 260 and
made India an easy
winner.
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