DHARAMSHALA: Kohli was just 5 runs short of reaching 49th ODI century, but his 95 off 104 balls ensured India completed a fifth straight win at the ICC World Cup by beating New Zealand at the HPCA Stadium on Sunday.

After pacer Mohammed Shami picked a superb 5-54 to help India restrict New Zealand to 273, Kohli anchored the Indian run-chase to perfection to chase down 274 with two overs to spare.

Chasing 274, Rohit Sharma continued his marauding way of starting by flicking Trent Boult through square leg for four, before dancing down the pitch to slam Matt Henry for six and ending the over with another boundary.

Rohit in the meanwhile became the fastest batter to reach 2000 ODI runs in just 38 innings, going past Hashim Amla’s mark of 40 innings.

Later, Lockie Ferguson struck with his first ball of the night by having Rohit chop onto his stumps and later on, had Gill upper-cut a bouncer to third man.

India kept on losing wickets on one end but Kohli stood his ground and scored a fifty.

Ravindra Jadeja partnered Kohli to keep the scoreboard ticking by mixing strike-rotation with hitting occasional boundaries to keep the required run-rate in check.

Kohli was dismissed after mistiming a flick to deep mid-wicket to fall for 95. But Jadeja finished off the chase in style with a pull off Boult for four to seal an Indian victory.

Brief scores:

New Zealand 273 all out in 50 overs (Daryl Mitchell 130, Rachin Ravindra 75; Mohammed Shami 5-54, Kuldeep Yadav 2-73) lost to India 274/6 in 48 overs (Virat Kohli 95, Rohit Sharma 46; Lockie Ferguson 2-63, Mitchell Santner 1-37) by four wickets