IND vs AFG Highlights, T20 World Cup 2024: India Beat Afghanistan By 47 Runs
IND vs AFG Highlights, T20 World Cup 2024: Afghanistan did have a passage of play to their name in a match which was otherwise dominated by India.
Good game then for Team India. Suryakumar Yadav gets a Player Of the Match for his 53 off 28 but the most economical spell in T20 World Cup history by an Indian from Jasprit Bumrah (3/7) was equally effective as India won by 47 runs. That's it from our coverage of this game. Thank you and good night.
India beat Afghanistan by 47 runs. They have bowled out Afghanistan for 134.
9 Down Are Afghanistan. Arshdeep has scalped 2 wickets in a row and was on a hat-trick. Had he got it, that would have meant game over but it's edged away for a boundary.
Jadeja Amongst Wickets too. Jadeja 5 down for 71 in the 12th over.
Kuldeep gets a wicket first over after drinks. Afghanistan four down for 67.
We halfway through the Afghanistan innings. They are 66/3 after 10 overs.
Afghanistan Batters Out In The Middle Are Gulbadin and Omarzai. Hardik gets a ball now. AFG- 35/3 at the end of powerplay.
Fortunately that catch has not cost India a lot. Axar Patel removes Zadran, a catch straight to short extra cover where Rohit takes the catch before another peach from Bumrah that saw the better of Zazai. AFG- 23/3 after 4.1 Overs.
Ibrahim Zadran has been given a life. Virat Kohli has dropped a sitter at point off Arshdeep.
Zazai Joins Ibrahim in the middle. Arshdeep to continue for Team India.
Jasprit Bumrah has picked a wicket early. He is sharing the new ball with Arshdeep Singh and Bumrah has got rid of the danger man Gurbaz, with a wide slower one that has induced the edge through to the keeper. Gurbaz out for 11 off 8. AFG- 13/1 after 1.2 Overs.
India Finish At 181/8. Afghanistan need 182 to win. It will take some chase from the Afghans if they need to get past the Indian total.
And Another Off The Fifth Ball. India get to 180.
Axar find the fence, third ball of the 20th over.
Last over coming in. Fazalhaq Farooqi finishes with 3/33. Naveen-ul-Haq will bowl the final over. Axar on strike. Can India get ton 180? They are on 167.
Jadeja falls too after hitting a boundary. IND- 165/7. Axar Patel had come in after the fall of Hardik. He will joined by Arshdeep. Fazalhaq gets the wicket.
He may have survived an LBW previous ball but he hits this straight into the hands of the the fielder deep on the off side. IND-159/6 after 18 overs.
Hardik Pandya smashes a maximum. He has hit that quite a distance on the leg side to get a much-needed six for the team.
Ravindra Jadeja has joined Hardik Pandya in the middle. India 150 with 3 overs to go. Naveen to bowl the 18th.
SKY can't power India to a strong finish. Out the ball after he gets a fifty. Goes for an aerial stroke but is caught in the deep against Fazalhaq.
Fifty For SKY. Back-to-back boundaries to get there off 27 balls.
SKY Has Got Going. One of the best T20I batter coming to the party for India, world's number 1 ranked as of now. He is 49 off 26 and he has made all the difference for Men in Blue. As if he is batting on a different surface.
Shivam Dube Departs. Wicket number 3 for Rashid. He may have been hit for a six and a four by Suryakumar Yadav earlier in the over but he deceives Dube and gets the better of him. Umpire thinks it's bat first then pad but Rashid has reviewed the decision and he gets it right. Dube falls for 10 off 7. IND-90/4 after 10.5 overs.
Shivam Dube hits a six down the ground. That's what he is here for and he has started alright against Noor.
Noor To Continue. SKY did find a boundary in the last over to break the shackles. 7 runs off it. IND- 67/3 after 9 overs.
Shivam Dube In The Middle now with spinners operating in the middle. Precisely the role he has been assigned in the side. Can he make it count?
Rashid gets another. Virat Kohli goes for 24 off 24, looks to chip one over the covers but there is a fielder in the deep and its straight down his throat. IND- 62/3 after 8.3 Overs.
Suryakumar Yadav In At 4 for India. For Afghanistan, N0oor Ahmad has the ball in hand.
Pant falls. He was looking good but tries to go for a fancy reverse sweep against Rashid and perishes. It's out LBW, which they challenge with the DRS but it's hitting the off stump. First wicket against India in T20Is for Rashid. First LBW dismissal for Pant. IND- 54/2 after 7 overs.
Rashid Khan Into The Attack. First up after powerplay.
Pant With A Hat-Trick Of Boundaries Against Nabi. He did get a life with Naveen spilling a catch that went for a boundary, the second of the three on the trot against the spinner, but take nothing away from the attacking intent by the southpaw. India end the powerplay with a 13-run over. They are 47/1 after 6 overs.
Kohli hits Naveen down the ground for a six. Flat-batted over the bowler's head for a maximum. India get 9 runs off the over, with the help of that six. IND- 34/1 after 5 overs.
Naveen ul Haq replaces Fazalhaq.
Rishabh Pant In At 3 and he gets a loose ball on his pads which he puts away for a boundary to get off the mark. IND- 16/1 after 3 overs.
Rohit falls to left-arm pace yet again. Goes for the big one but fails to get the desired connection. He top edges that it's an easy catch. India lose their first wicket inside the powerplay. They are- 11/1 after 2.5 Overs. Fazalhaq gets the wicket.
Fazalhaq to continue. Rohit on strike.
Mohammad Nabi from the other end for Afghanistan. India get 3 singles from this one. IND- 8/0 after 2 overs.
Good Over To Start Things Off in Barbados. The bowler had Rohit in check who somehow managed to get 5 runs off the over. A boundary off an outside half of the bat that beat the man at short third before finding a single off the last ball of the over to retain strike.
Fazalhaq Farooqi to Rohit Sharma. Here we go. Virat Kohli is Rohit's opening partner. India's first match in Super Eight gets underway.
Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Rashid Khan (captain), Noor Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh
BREAKING NEWS: India Elect To Bat First In Barbados.
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Background
IND vs AFG Live Score, T20 World Cup 2024: India's last T20I before the T20 World Cup 2024 was in January and it was against Afghanistan- the same opponent that they will face in their first Super 8 match of the ICC event in Barbados. That India vs Afghanistan went all the way down to the wire. Despite India being one of the top ranked sides in the world, it needed two Super overs for them to come out on top against Afghans who were without the services of Rashid Khan.
If that is anything to go by, this India vs Afghanistan will not be a walk in the cake for Team India by any stretch of the imagination. The Men in Blue may have remained undefeated in the tournament so far but that doesn't mean Afghanistan have been inferior by any means, as their progress to the Super 8 stage itself suggests. While India beat Ireland, Pakistan and USA before their match against Canada was washed out, Afghanistan too won against Ugadna, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (PNG) before a loss against West Indies.
That means Afghanistan bowlers will ask questions to India batters- how well can the Indian batters answer it might well decide how successful Rohit Sharma &. Co. will be in this match. Both the teams are likely to go into this match with an unchanged 11 although there are talks that with India playing in the Caribbean islands, there could be a possible change in lineup but with Team India unbeaten in group stage, they are likely to not try and fix something which is not broken.
Afghanistan too may have succumbed to an odd defeat but this has been a great performance from them so far when they rub shoulders against India on Thursday (June 20), they will want to produce their A game to try and pick up a big win and take a huge stride towards a place in the semis.
Is that too much to ask for from an Afghanistan yet or do they have the resources and the big match temperament to deliver the good right now?
Let's find out over the course of the next few hours.
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