Virat Kohli scored a record-breaking 50th one-day international hundred before Mohammed Shami took a seven wicket-haul as India sealed their progression to the Cricket World Cup final with a 70-run win against New Zealand in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Kohli scored 117, breaking the record he shared with Sachin Tendulkar, and Shreyas Iyer quickly scored 105. This helped India score 397-4, which was a strong score that included Shubman Gill’s 80 not out.

For New Zealand to win the World Cup semi-final, they had to beat their own record of 299-6 against South Africa in Auckland in 2015, which was the highest score by a team batting second.

But fast bowler Shami had a great game and took 7/57. New Zealand was out for 327 runs, even though Daryl Mitchell scored 134, which was his best score at this level. They had lost the last two World Cups.

India has won all ten of their games so far at the tournament and is trying to win their third World Cup and second one at home. In Sunday’s final in Ahmedabad, they will play either Australia or South Africa, whose games are on Thursday.

“I still believe in pitching it up and getting wickets with the new ball,” said Shami. “I dropped a catch off Kane Williamson, I shouldn’t have. I felt terrible.”

He added: “The last two World Cups, we lost in the semis. Who knows when or if we’ll get a chance, so this was one chance we didn’t want to let go.”

Change of firsts They were 39-2 when Shami hit two early runs and took a wicket with his first ball.

But the Black Caps got back on track when captain Williamson and Mitchell put together a 181-run partnership for the third wicket.

It was almost over for the chase, though, when Shami got two wickets in three balls in the 33rd over.

Williamson was out for 69 when he flicked Shami, who had already out for 52, straight to Suryakumar Yadav at deep square leg.

And 220-3 turned into 220-4 when Shami caught Tom Latham lbw for a duck.

“Daryl Mitchell and Kane Wiliamson batted brilliantly,” said India captain Rohit Sharma, who made a dashing 47 at the top of the order.

“We knew we had to pull something from up our sleeves. A bit of magic…We tried everything and Mohammed Shami was brilliant.”

Mitchell’s good work ended when he whipped Shami to Ravindra Jadeja at deep midwicket. The paceman then ended the game when Lockie Ferguson, who was out as the last man, was caught behind.

“Congratulations to India,” said Williamson. “They’re a top side at the top of their game…But credit to the guys. I’m proud of the effort to stay in the fight.”

Kohli’s innings saw him pass Tendulkar’s record of 49 hundreds. Tendulkar watched from the stands at Wankhede Stadium, where 33,000 people, including football star David Beckham, were seated.

Kohli added 163 runs to Iyer’s score, who hit 105 runs off of just 70 balls, with eight sixes and four fours.

“It feels like a dream. Too good to be true,” said Kohli at the innings break.

Tendulkar hailed Kohli’s “skill and passion”.

“I couldn’t be happier that an Indian broke my record,” wrote Tendulkar, a team-mate of Kohli when India beat Sri Lanka in the 2011 final at the Wankhede, on X, formerly Twitter.

Early on Wednesday, there was a stir when it came out that the game was being played on a used pitch instead of a new one.

They thought they had Kohli out for a second-ball duck (lbw to Southee), but a review showed that Southee had an inside edge.

With a two off Ferguson, Kohli finished his third of the tournament while chants of ‘Kohli, Kohli’ echoed around the pitch. He had faced 106 balls and hit eight fours and a six.

Tendulkar led the cheers, and Kohli bowed to the player who was his hero as a child.

Kohli was finally out when he pulled Southee low to deep square leg, and Iyer’s second straight hundred ended when he holed out off Trent Boult. Kohli was dropped on 107.

Shami had an immediate success on Wednesday. His previous best was 5-18 at the Wankhede lights when Sri Lanka was out for just 55 in the pool play.

Devon Conway could only edge his first ball, which moved late, but wicketkeeper KL Rahul still had to make a great diving catch.

Another left-handed opener, Rachin Ravindra, who scored three hundreds in his first World Cup and was a big surprise, was caught behind by Shami for 13.