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<h1>India beat Ireland and Wins Fifth Straight - Cricket World Cup</h1>
India beat Ireland by eight wickets to stay unbeaten, an emotional change after it entered the World Cup without a win in an aggressive match in the past two months.
India's surprising turnaround at the Cricket World Cup proceeded on Tuesday with a fifth back to back win guaranteeing the safeguarding champion will top its pool heading into the quarterfinals.
India beat Ireland by eight wickets to stay unbeaten, an emotional change after it entered the World Cup without a win in an aggressive match in the past two months on Australian soil, traversing four test matches and a constrained overs tri-arrangement against Australia and England.
"We have been here for more than four months, we needed to yield some place," India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said. "I knew it (structure) would be back when the World Cup began.
"I'm happy every one of us have ventured up. It feels great — we simply need to take the energy forward."
Shikhar Dhawan scored 100 and Rohit Sharma hit 64 in a 174-run opening organization as India arrived at 260-2, pursuing down Ireland's 259 with 13.1 overs remaining.
Ireland's push for a spot in the quarterfinals will proceed on the weekend against Pakistan.
India will stay on Pool B paying little respect to the result of its last gathering match against Zimbabwe.
Ireland should now beat Pakistan in the last match of the pool round at Adelaide on Sunday, or if nothing else take a point from that diversion, to have any shot of advancin.