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India defeats Pakistan in 3rd match, starts ICC World Cup 2019 with 3 wins

After defeating South Africa and Australia, India defeated Pakistan with 89 runs in their 3rd match in the 2019 ICC World Cup 2019.

India vs Pakistan was played at Old Trafford on June 16, 2019.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were outstanding with the bat. Kuldeep Yadav and Hardik Pandya played well with the ball and helped India secure the W against Pakistan.

Pakistan had to score 337 to win over India.

Hardik Pandya played really well and removed Mohammad Hafeez with just 9 runs and Shoaib Malik without scoring any runs.

Rohit Sharma scored a century.

India is now standing strong at the third place in the points table, and Pakistan is sitting still at the 9th place.

The top 4 teams in the points table by the end of the group stages are going to play in the Semi-Final stage. The winners will compete for the trophy.

The winner of the 2019 ICC World Cup will receive 4 Million USD, which is around Rs. 28.04 crores.

In 2015, Australia won 3.975 Million USD after they won the 2015 world cup.

Here is the current table standing of the ICC 2019 World Cup:

POS TEAM P W L T/NR PTS NRR
1 AUS 5 4 1 0 8 +0.81
2 NZ 4 3 0 1 7 +2.16
3 IND 4 3 0 1 7 +1.02
4 ENG 4 3 1 0 6 +1.55

India will face Afghanistan on June 22, 2019.