India, Feb. 14 -- Daryl Mitchell is the latest in a long line of batters who have gorged on the Indian bowling. The list is extended and illustrious and includes, among others, Javed Miandad and Zaheer Abbas, Matthew Hayden and Graham Gooch. Especially in the last two and a quarter years, Kiwi Mitchell has helped himself to runs galore against India's bowlers; four of his nine One-Day International centuries have come against his favourite opponents since the start of the World Cup in 2023 and his sequence of scores since making 130 in the round-robin league defeat to the eventual finalists in Dharamsala reads 134, 17, 63, 84, 131 not out and 137.

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