Some of Pakistan's dedicated cricket fans plead with their players; "It doesn't matter if you don't win the World Cup but you must beat India." Seven times now in seven tries the Pakistan players either haven't been listening or they are too burdened by the weight of expectation to comply. At Old Trafford, Virat Kohli's highly efficient machine administered the biggest beating to their arch-rivals in a World Cup match."

From the moment Rohit Sharma slipped into top gear — dispatching a steady diet of short deliveries to and over the boundaries on both sides of the wicket — an Indian victory was on the cards. Rohit's second century in the World Cup sealed a big score for India. Along the way, Kohli added his stamp to the hammering and in the process became comfortably the quickest man to 11,000 ODI runs.