Sports Desk :
KL Rahul smashed 50 off 19 balls as India hammered Scotland by eight wickets to stay alive in the Twenty20 World Cup on Friday, reports AFP.
Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami took three wickets each to help bowl out Scotland for 85 in 17.4 overs after India put the opposition into bat in the Super 12 contest in Dubai.
Rahul and Rohit Sharma, who hit 30, took the Scotland bowling apart as India raced to their target in 6.3 overs to get their run-rate over New Zealand and Afghanistan.
They still need to win their last game against Namibia and depend on the result of the New Zealand-Afghanistan game to have any chance of making the final four.
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Hindustan Times adds: India defeated Scotland by 8 wickets (with 13.3 overs to spare) to bag their second win of the T20 World Cup and surpass New Zealand’s net run-rate. In chase of 86, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul
got the side off to a blistering start as they brought up the fastest team fifty to take the side to 53/0 after 4 overs. Rohit Sharma was dismissed on 30 before KL Rahul brought up his 50 in 18 balls. He was gone the next ball. However, Suryakumar Yadav and Virat Kohli remained undeterred as they finished the proceedings. India bundled Scotland out for 85 in 17.4 overs. Earlier in the day, they started off very well in the first innings, restricting the Scots to 27/2 by the end of the Powerplay. In the very next over, the 7th, Ravindra Jadeja picked up two wickets to leave Scotland reeling at 29/4. Jadeja bagged another, while R Ashwin also joined the party as Scotland could only reach 64/6 after 15 overs. Then, Shami came back to pick two more wickets in one over before Bumrah clinched his second wicket of the night to help his side bundled Scotland out very cheaply.
India: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (capt), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah
Scotland: George Munsey, Kyle Coetzer (capt), Matthew Cross (wk), Richie Berrington, Calum MacLeod, Michael Leask, Chris Greaves, Mark Watt, Safyaan Sharif, Alasdair Evans, Bradley Wheal.
