The United States beat Chile 3-0 on a record-setting night for Carli Lloyd in its second group-stage match at the Women's World Cup in Paris on Sunday to secure a spot in the round of 16.

Lloyd scored twice in the first half to move into third on the all-time scoring charts for the Americans with 10 behind Michelle Akers (12) and Abby Wambach (14), and also became the first player to score in six consecutive Women's World Cup games. Julie Ertz also found the back of the net.

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Jill Ellis made seven changes to the side that beat Thailand 13-0 on Tuesday -- including the addition of Lloyd -- and the U.S. wasted no time picking up right where they left off as Lloyd buried a volley from just outside the Chilean penalty area to open the scoring in the 11th minute.

After the match, Ellis weighed in on Lloyd's starting prospects going forward: "The fact that she's now scored three goals, I don't think she could be in a better spot [to start]. I also know she's ready to do whatever she needs to for the team."

The U.S. then doubled its lead soon after Lloyd's opener with a deft, glancing header by Ertz from a corner kick that beat Chile keeper Christiane Endler, before Lloyd added a second goal of her own from another corner to send her team to the dressing room with a 3-0 half-time lead.

Ellis handed Jessica McDonald her World Cup debut at the start of the second half, as Ertz made way for the 31-year-old member of the NWSL's North Carolina Courage.

The U.S. spent the first 20 minutes of the second half applying massive pressure to the Chilean defense, with Endler, who plays professionally for Paris-Saint Germain, producing a string of world-class saves to keep the Americans out.

"Endler was fantastic, spectacular," Ellis said after the match. "She is one of best shot stoppers we've ever seen. That goalkeeper will keep that team in the mix and it's a wonderful statement about the level of goalkeeping."

VAR handed the U.S. a chance to add to the scoreline with a penalty, but Lloyd failed to get her spot kick on frame as Endler and the Chilean defense held on to keep the Americans scoreless in the second half.

"It's a mix of feelings, but I'm satisfied to have played like this, especially here, at this stadium that's my home," Endler told reporters.

"The football world powers have years of advantage compared to us in the development and support of women's football.

"This must be the beginning of something bigger and more important so more girls can dedicate themselves to the game professionally."

The win returns the U.S. to the top of Group F, level on points but ahead on goal differential of Sweden, which it plays on Thursday needing just a draw to win the group.

Both Sweden, which beat Thailand 5-1 on Sunday, and the U.S. are already assured of a spot in the knockout round.

Paris Saint-Germain chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi has said that the French champions will no longer tolerate superstar attitudes from their biggest players after a forgettable 2018-19 season.

PSG moved to replace sporting director Antero Henrique on Friday by welcoming back Leonardo after nearly six years away and the Brazilian will be tasked with disciplining a talented but unruly squad that saw no shortage of controversy last campaign.

"Players will have to be more responsible than before," Al-Khelaifi told France Football. "It must be completely different.

"They will have to do more and work harder. They are not there for their own amusement. If they do not agree, the doors are open -- Ciao!

"I do not want star behaviour anymore."

PSG's ultimately disappointing term saw Champions League humiliation at the hands of Manchester United, Kylian Mbappe's unexpected end of season declaration, further injury and a spate of suspensions for Neymar, as well as the internal suspension and freezing out of Adrien Rabiot.

Al-Khelaifi said that it reached a point where enough was enough, which prompted the move to reinstate Leonardo.

"I realised changes were essential," he said. "Otherwise, we were going nowhere."

In order to bring Leonardo back after his AC Milan exit, the Ligue 1 giants had to part company with Henrique after two unsuccessful years together.

"In two minutes, it was settled between us," Al-Khelaifi said. "Leonardo will have absolute sporting power.

"Leo is my guy -- incredible. He has my total confidence. His natural authority will be good for everybody -- especially the players."

Leonardo is currently working hard to land coveted Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt as the first part of a summer overhaul designed to rejuvenate PSG's once ambitious project.

The South American transfer guru's mission is similar to when he first laid Les Parisiens' foundations when Oryx Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) took over at Parc des Princes back in 2011.

Usain Bolt scored a goal in a UNICEF Soccer Aid charity match as his World XI side beat England on penalties after a 2-2 draw on Sunday.

The world's fastest man had been trying to become a professional soccer player since retiring from athletics in 2017, but after announcing that his "sports life is over" in January 2019, he showed people that he's still got a bit of life left on the pitch.

The 14th edition of Soccer Aid, played on Sunday at Stamford Bridge, pitted a selection of England players and personalities against a World XI captained by Bolt, and was notable for being the first to feature female players. Yet it was Bolt who stole the show with a well-taken goal before half-time.

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After former England and Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher hesitated when trying to defend an awkwardly bouncing ball, his mis-timed header allowed Bolt to steal in on goal with the loose ball, before finishing with a powerful, left-footed drive beyond former England goalkeeper David Seaman.

Bolt's goal for the World XI, which saw the Jamaican line up alongside Chelsea legend Didier Drogba, looked to be in vain as England were on course to win for a sixth time as they held a 2-1 lead late in the match thanks to a pair of goals from Jeremy Lynch. But up popped TV personality Kem Cetinay right before full-time to level matters and Bolt's team went on to win the match from the penalty spot.

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Bolt first expressed a desire to play professional football in 2016, mentioning how he'd love to play for the club he supported, Manchester United.

Since then, the decorated Olympian has had trials and training sessions at several teams in a bid to realize his dream, including training with Norwegian side Stromsgodset in early 2018, a summer training spell with Borussia Dortmund, and a trial with Australian A-League outfit Central Coast Mariners for whom he made his debut on Aug. 31.

Despite accepting a pro contract on Oct. 21, 2018, and having previously turned down a two-year offer from Valletta in Malta earlier that week, he made just a handful of appearances, scoring twice in an Oct. 12 friendly against amateur side Macarthur South West United before leaving the club in early November.

And while Bolt's professional career never quite got on track, he and the rest of the stars of the match can take heart in knowing they helped raise over £6 million for the charity in Sunday's game.

PARIS -- The United States can't officially clinch a place as the best team in its World Cup group until later this week, but it used Sunday's game against Chile to show that even its second team is among the best in the world.

Despite wholesale changes to the starting lineup that routed Thailand, the U.S. beat Chile 3-0 to remain on top of Group F and advance to the knockout round. Both the U.S. and Sweden enter the final round of group play with six points from two wins, but the Americans possess a vastly superior goal differential.

On a day when the American presence in Paris made the red, white and blue of Parc des Princes, normally home to Paris Saint-Germain, an appropriate home away from home with a crowd of 45,594, the U.S. looked at ease from the outset.

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In her first start this World Cup, Carli Lloyd needed just over 10 minutes to set a record by scoring in her sixth consecutive World Cup game. She then set another record when, at age 36, she became the oldest player to score two goals in a World Cup game.

Only a missed penalty, awarded after VAR intervention, slowed Lloyd.

Julie Ertz scored the other American goal in the opening half, the first World Cup goal for a player who starred as a defender in the 2015 tournament.

And if the U.S. didn't pile on the goals in the second half this time, it was more because of Christiane Endler's heroics in goal than because the U.S. took its foot off the gas, but the performance was hardly less comprehensive.

The U.S. and Sweden, which beat Thailand earlier in the day, will renew their very frequent rivalry in Le Havre on Thursday. Takeaways from Sunday's match:

Carli Lloyd can't stop scoring goals

In again defending her team's celebrations in its opening win against Thailand, Jill Ellis talked the day before the game against Chile about considering the individual context behind each goal. She used Lloyd as an example, saying she knew exactly how much work Lloyd had put in to be on the field as a goal-scoring threat at 36. That effort warranted celebration.

Well, despite the U.S. breaking out a golf-clap celebration on Lloyd's opening goal against Chile, poking fun at the controversy over their celebrations in the opening game, the captain again earned the right to celebrate Sunday. Lloyd has insisted that she wants to start, believes she can start and is still fully capable of influencing games for 90 minutes. That just isn't her role on a regular basis at the moment.

"Every day she comes to train, and she's one of the most competitive day in and day out," Becky Sauerbrunn said. "She's very vigilant when it comes to what she needs to do every single day to make sure she's the best. She wants to be on the field, and she trains like she wants to be on the field. I think whenever anyone asks her 'Are you OK coming off the bench?' -- no, she's not OK with it because she's a true competitor.

"She wants to score goals. She wants to be out there."

This wasn't a World Cup final against Japan, and she didn't quite complete the hat trick. But Sunday made her point decisively. She's not done.

The second-best team in France?

The U.S. made seven changes to the starting lineup from its opening game, a nod both to its own depth and the reality that Chile is a weaker side than any the U.S. is likely to face from here on out in the tournament. There wasn't much to criticize in the opening game against Thailand, so it's safe to assume the changes that took the entire front line, Crystal Dunn, Rose Lavelle, Sam Mewis and Kelley O'Hara, out of the lineup weren't punitive for poor performance.

"I feel like this team has incredible depth," Alex Morgan said. "And when [Ellis] chooses who goes on during a game and who starts, there's no explanation needed. We trust in her. It was pretty incredible that we were able to get all 20 field players on the pitch the first two games."

This was about managing the roster with an eye toward playing seven games. In fact, if the U.S. makes it to the final, it will play six games in 22 days, beginning Sunday. That's a hefty workload for the oldest team in the tournament. Resting players over 30 like Tobin Heath, O'Hara and Megan Rapinoe makes sense, as does seizing the opportunity to get minutes for players like Morgan Brian, a World Cup veteran but a surprise inclusion on this roster.

Ellis did the same thing in the second game of World Cup qualifying last fall, then reverted back to her original starting 11 for the remainder of that tournament.

But if the purpose of the changes was boringly tactical, the message was again loud and clear. The U.S. has more depth than any team in this tournament. That's most obvious in the front line, where Lloyd, Christen Press and Mallory Pugh would start for most teams in the world. As Heath, Morgan and Rapinoe did in the first game, the front line in this game set the tone by pressing Chile from the outset to break up that team's bunker mentality.

"For morale purposes and cohesion and the team and all that, it's fantastic," Ellis said. "You see the players celebrating each other again tonight. So in that purpose, it's a happy camp. From regards to load, it's a lot of games in this tournament if you want to go far in it. So in terms of the ability to take a game off of some legs, I think is hopefully a good thing."

A star in defeat

While American fans dominated the stands in Paris, Chilean fans made themselves heard with a rousing rendition of their national anthem, continuing to sing even after the recording in the stadium cut off. Once the game began, Christiane Endler gave them something to cheer, too.

"Endler was fantastic," Ellis said. "We knew that in terms of scouting her and have played her before and know her reputation in the club game -- playing in her home ground, really. ... Endler is always going to keep that team in the mix. Just a wonderful statement about the level of goalkeeping."

Chile's goalkeeper, who plays professionally for PSG, did all she could to keep the score from ballooning into something like the U.S. win against Thailand.

"She saved probably four or five goals that were heading in," Lloyd said. "She did a phenomenal job."

A much better organized and competitive team than Thailand, Chile is still years away from contending for world titles in women's soccer -- even if it gets the necessary support from the domestic football infrastructure long dominated by the men's game. But the generation to come already has a truly world-class player of its own to look up to during that journey.

"She got player of the match in a game they lost 3-0," Ellis said. "And I'm good with that."

Tierna Davidson impressive in debut

For a stretch of time last year, Tierna Davidson looked like she had the inside track on a starting role next to Becky Sauerbrunn in the middle of the U.S. back line. Davidson's own injury woes, which came early in her junior season at Stanford, and Abby Dahlhemper's continued quality changed that. But in becoming the youngest U.S. World Cup starter since Tiffany Roberts in 1995, Davidson both showed off her versatility as an outside back against Chile and took a starring role in U.S. set piece success. It was Davidson, whose delivery perfectly teed up Ertz for the near-post header on one corner kick and gave Lloyd the delivery to run onto for the other corner kick goal.

"Those balls she played in -- she's got one of the sweetest left feet I've ever seen," Ellis said.

The only thing she did wrong was take a free kick from the end line too early. And she can be forgiven a little overzealousness. It was, after all, her first World Cup game.

"This is something I've been looking forward to for a long time," Davidson said. "But only recently it kind of came into a concrete idea, as opposed to a dream."

Lindsey Horan in card jeopardy

Just about the first bit of bad news incurred by the U.S. in the tournament came when Lindsey Horan picked up a yellow card midway through the first half. The midfielder again looked the part of one of the tournament's potential breakout stars in what was mostly a composed, aggressive performance -- save for the card. Now Ellis, who substituted Allie Long for Horan early in the second half will face a choice as to whether to risk her picking up a second yellow in the group finale against Sweden and being suspended for the first elimination round game.

The U.S. had trouble with that in the last World Cup, losing Lauren Holiday and Rapinoe for the quarterfinal because of accumulated yellows. Then again, with both Sam Mewis and Lavelle kept on the bench at the start of Sunday's game, Ellis has rested options.

The big three seem to have already pre ordered their semi-final births. And so many see the rest of the round robin as a chance for one more team to slip into fourth. Most believe New Zealand is the most obvious team for that. New Zealand have won three games, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and their biggest challenge should've been India, but that game was abandoned because of rain. This means New Zealand are unbeaten after four games with seven points.

West Indies have played four games, accruing three points, but they've played Australia and England, had a washout against South Africa, and destroyed Pakistan.

Within the camp, West Indies are looking at their final five games as the easier part of the draw. While many may have written them off after a poor show against England, they still really believe they are a chance for that final semi-final spot.

When asked about this, Jason Holder diplomatically said, "Interesting you said easy teams. I don't feel any of the teams are easy, but we may - at this present time with five games left, I think the ball's in our court, we've just got to be consistent. We've got to play some consistent cricket going into the back half of this tournament."

There is no doubt when you look at the fixtures for the two teams, New Zealand have had a dream run, and West Indies have been unlucky. They ended up playing England on the tournament's biggest playing surface - helping their opposition. Then they lost the toss and batted first when it was the only time that bowlers would get any help. Against South Africa, they had them 29 for 2 when the rain came, and on South Africa's recent form, you'd have expected them to struggle from there. And West Indies bounced out Australia's top order, before allowing Steven Smith to put on a competitive total, and being Mitchell Starc-ed after a good start in their chase.

That West Indies beat England twice at home, and competed with Australia so well in this tournament, it's clear this is a quality team. But at the moment they find themselves four points behind New Zealand, and equal with their opponents for their next game, Bangladesh.

With Bangladesh beating West Indies seven of the last nine meetings, it's not an ideal must-win match. While it's not uncommon for teams to have good records against the West Indies of recent times, this will give a confident Bangladesh more belief. They are also use to playing with them in the BPL, so they won't be star struck by the bigger names, as they've been their team mates. Mashrafe Mortaza talked about the recent record of Bangladesh against West Indies, "So we take it positively that, as we said, the matchup, I think our bowling has been fantastic against them last two, three series we played against them. So I think we have to take this positive stuff and the ground and do our best."

"Taunton is a small town, you wonder if there is enough cotton wool to protect Russell's glass knees. He didn't train on Sunday, and he trained extensively before the England game - which he played in."

West Indies also have question marks over their most important player, Andre Russell.

They still seem wedded to Russell, who they appear to believe is the key to them winning this tournament. But he's not completed 10 overs in a match and has spent as much time limping from the field as bowling on it. Holder said, "We're keeping him in cotton wool until tomorrow. I saw him yesterday. Saw him this morning as well, and he's progressing quite nicely yes, you know. We'll have a final answer with him tomorrow morning."

But Taunton is a small town, you wonder if there is enough cotton wool to protect Russell's glass knees. He didn't train on Sunday, and he trained extensively before the England game - which he played in.

With or without Russell, West Indies seem one batsman short. And that means batsman, not hitter. Nicholas Pooran's been excellent in this World Cup, but he has never made a professional hundred, and he's batting at four. No other team in this tournament is taking such a risk in their top four. On a green-looking Taunton wicket, the lack of batting smarts that affected them at Southampton might come into play again. The first batsmen in the nets today was Darren Bravo. His experience and skill could be important for this game.

And if they don't beat Bangladesh, their hopes of a semi-final spot are virtually gone.

Mashrafe Mortaza has asked his teammates to rely on their instincts in assessing pitches - starting with the one in Taunton, where Bangladesh play West Indies on Monday - and not go by "outside" opinions.

The playing surface in Taunton is quite green, but there's also the knowledge that it is traditionally a batsman-friendly pitch. And that has caused confusion in the ranks, with Mashrafe saying that since it's the players who cop the flak for poor performances, they should be make the calls on the matter.

"The team that correctly assesses the pitch faster, they will be ahead in the game. I think we misread the pitch in the New Zealand game [at The Oval]. If we had read the pitch right during that match, we would have targeted 260-270, and not 300-plus," Mashrafe said. "There's confusion about the [Taunton] pitch as well. We heard it will be grassy but some are saying that it is usually a flat pitch.

"I think those who go out in the middle can assess it quicker, since they end up getting criticised for the defeat."

The context for the comments was Bangladesh's 244 all out against New Zealand. It was thought of as a 260-270 pitch by the players but, Mashrafe said, the opinion outside the playing group - influenced by the radio commentary - was that the team should aim higher, which prompted the batsmen to throw their bats around more than they might have otherwise. They collapsed from 151 for 3 in the 31st over and lost by two wickets; in the previous game, against South Africa, they had scored 330 for 6 at the same venue.

ESPNcricinfo found out soon after the match against New Zealand that some in the Bangladesh dressing room had been influenced by the radio commentary. At one stage, a message was also sent out to the batsmen in the middle - between overs 31 and 38 - to get a move on. That didn't go down well with many of the players.

"It is hard to judge the pitch listening to the radio. They can only speculate, and only comment on things as it progresses in front of them"

"The behaviour of a pitch changes as the match progresses. When you are playing in a ground like The Oval, you are likely to have in the back of your mind that there will be 330-350 runs," Mashrafe said. "I think our calculations were spot on against South Africa. But if Shakib [Al Hasan] didn't get out at that time against New Zealand, we would have gone along the same path against New Zealand.

"When [Mohammad] Mithun and [Mahmudullah] Riyad were batting, we had the right thinking, aimed at a score around 270. It is hard to judge the pitch listening to the radio. They can only speculate, and only comment on things as it progresses in front of them. I think those in the middle should make the decisions based on their judgment."

In a big blow to India's plans Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been ruled out of India's next two or three World Cup matches due to a hamstring injury.

Playing against Pakistan on Sunday, Bhuvneshwar was forced to leave the field having bowled just 2.4 overs, after he suffered tightness in his left hamstring.

Indian captain Virat Kohli confirmed the injury took place after Bhuvneshwar stretched his hamstring off a foot mark during on the follow through. Although he described the injury as a "niggle" Kohli said Bhuvneshwar would not be available for selection for the matches against Afghanistan on June 22 and West Indies on June 27 and possibly the crunch clash against England on June 30.

"He has a slight niggle," Kohli told the host broadcaster after the victory against Pakistan. "It was because of slipping on the foot marks. It doesn't look too serious at the moment. We are going to give it some time. Hopefully he will be ready in a couple of games, if not max by three games from now."

Bhuvneshwar, Kohli said, was confident of recovery soon and the team was not worried because there was a ready replacement in Mohammad Shami. "He himself feels that the niggle is not too bad. Just time (resting) will heal it. He is going to be a very important factor for us so he hopefully he can recover well in time. We have got Shami ready and raring to go so we are not too worried about where the situation stands."

Bowling the fifth over of the Pakistan innings after India had ended on 336 for 5, Bhuvneshwar pulled up after bowling his 16th delivery, and left the field immediately. Vijay Shankar completed the over and, in fact, got India their first breakthrough with his very first delivery, trapping Imam-ul-Haq lbw.

Bhuvneshwar became the second Indian to pick up an injury during a match at the World Cup after opener Shikhar Dhawan suffered a hairline fracture to his left thumb during the game against Australia.

India 336 for 5 (Rohit 140, Kohli 77, Rahul 57, Amir 3-47) beat Pakistan 212 for 6 (Fakhar 62, Kuldeep 2-32) by 89 runs by the DSL method
As it happened

Seven-nil. On its biggest stage, cricket's most fraught rivalry really hasn't lived up to its billing.

None of the six previous World Cup meetings between India and Pakistan produced anything approaching a tight finish, but most of them contained tense passages of play and moments of crackling electricity. Sunday at Old Trafford had none of that. There was plenty of quality cricket, but nearly all of it was from one side. The other side was a shadow, not just of what it had been in the past, but even of what it had been two weeks ago.

Pakistan barely showed up, and the contest turned into an uninterrupted celebration of Indian excellence.

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Rohit Sharma scored his second hundred in three games, a far breezier knock than his effort in a scrappy chase against South Africa, and at one stage he seemed set for a tilt at a fourth ODI double-hundred. KL Rahul, batting in his preferred position thanks to the enforced absence of Shikhar Dhawan, made a solid half-century in an opening stand of 136. Virat Kohli came to the crease, occupied it like a favourite bit of lawn furniture, and made 77 at comfortably over a run a ball without ever seeming to stretch himself.

These efforts set Pakistan a target of 337. This was a flat pitch, and India lost one of their two main fast bowlers, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, to hamstring stiffness after he had delivered just 2.4 overs, leaving the fifth and sixth bowlers 17.2 overs, rather than just 10, to handle. And yet, apart from a brief period during a 104-run second-wicket stand between Fakhar Zaman and Babar Azam, Pakistan never threatened to make a chase of it.

The Fakhar-Babar partnership only rarely hit high gear, partly because of the discipline from India's bowlers - even Vijay Shankar and Hardik Pandya - and partly because Pakistan were looking to keep wickets in hand, perhaps with an eye on staying close to the DLS par score, given that rain had already caused a couple of brief interruptions.

A series of authoritative slog-sweeps from both batsmen brought Pakistan 26 runs from overs 21 to 23, one of them bringing up Fakhar's half-century. At the 23-over mark, Pakistan were 113 for 1, 11 behind the DLS par score of 124 for 1.

That was as close as they got, as Kuldeep Yadav put India firmly on top once more with the wickets of both set batsmen. They didn't arrive out of the blue; Kuldeep was consistently challenging the batsmen in the air and off the pitch, and he had already come close to having Fakhar stumped, ripping one across his bat face and causing him to overbalance.

The breakthrough arrived in the 24th over, courtesy a cocktail of drift, dip and turn. Drift drew Babar into playing at a wider line as Kuldeep floated one across him from left-arm over, opening a gap between bat and pad. Dip ensured the ball landed shorter than Babar wanted, causing him to push further out in front of his body than he would have wanted. Turn did the rest.

Dip forced Fakhar to top-edge a sweep in Kuldeep's next over, and Pakistan were 126 for 3. When Pandya followed up in the next over with the back-to-back wickets of Mohammad Hafeez and the dreadfully out-of-sorts Shoaib Malik, the contest was all but over.

The game dragged on for a while longer, though, thanks to a 40-minute spell of rain that shaved 10 overs off the chase. When play resumed, Pakistan needed 130 in 30 balls, with four wickets in hand, in front of stands that had gone two-thirds empty. It was the tired and farcical end that this contest - hyped to absurd levels for months and painted in dangerously jingoistic shades - probably deserved.

The match was probably won and lost in its first ten overs, when Pakistan chose to bowl in overcast conditions and failed to make use of them. Unlike most of the grounds at this World Cup, Old Trafford has long straight boundaries and short square ones, and with the clouds massed overhead it was the one place at which to bowl a fuller length. Barring Mohammad Amir, none of Pakistan's fast bowlers did this.

The quicks bowled nine of the first 10 overs for Pakistan, and of the 54 balls they sent down, 30 were pitched either short or short of a length, according to ESPNcricinfo's data. Rohit and Rahul scored 35 off those 30 balls, with Rohit in especially punishing mood with his square-cut and his range of pulls. The other 24 balls, mostly from Amir, were pitched on a good length or fuller, and off those balls India only scored 13 runs.

In comparison, India's seamers bowled 36 balls on the fuller lengths in their first Powerplay, conceding 18 runs, and 24 on the shorter lengths, conceding 17.

Rohit usually starts sedately in ODIs and beds in for the long haul, accelerating gradually through his innings. Pakistan's freebies had allowed him to begin in much more of a hurry now. At the 10-over mark he was on 37 off 29 balls, and a drive to the cover point boundary off Shadab Khan in the 12th over brought up his fifty off 34 balls. It was his quickest in ODIs.

The pace of Rohit's scoring allowed Rahul to play at his own pace at the other end, and ease into a role he hasn't really played too much of in his ODI career so far. Having moved to 14 off 31 at the 10-over mark, he accelerated when the spinners came on, bringing out his sweep, square cut, and lofted hits with a full extension of the arms. In all, he scored 12 off 30 against the faster bowlers and 45 off 48 against the spinners.

When Rahul spooned Wahab Riaz to short cover in the 24th over, India had already laid the base for a massive total. Rohit and Kohli, masters of pressing home advantageous situations, did what they do best, putting on 104 runs of increasing inevitability in 19.1 overs. Rohit brought up his century - his third-quickest in ODIs - off 85 balls, off the last ball of the 30th over, and proceeded to add 40 more to his score off his next 27 balls. Another double-century seemed to be his for the taking, but right after he had hammered Hasan Ali for a typically Rohit boundary - a mighty pull over mid-on - he fell playing an entirely atypical shot, shuffling across and scooping to short fine leg.

India came into the World Cup with questions over their No. 4, but through the tournament they've found a solution by taking so long to lose their second wicket that they can promote Pandya. They did so again, and he clattered 26 off 19, but there wasn't really a proper end-overs explosion to follow his dismissal, as Amir's angle and changes of pace tied down India's lower middle order. India only made 38 off their last five overs, but by then they already had more than enough.