Shivam Dubey and Rinku Singh
IND vs AFG 1st T20I: The first match of the three-match T20 series between India and Afghanistan was played in Mohali. In this match, Team India defeated Afghanistan by 6 wickets. With the victory against Afghanistan, Team India has gone 1-0 ahead in the series. For the first time a T20 series is being played between the two teams. Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss in this match and decided to bowl and asked Afghanistan to bat. During this period, Afghanistan team scored 158 runs after losing 5 wickets in 20 overs. This was the highest T20 score of Afghanistan team against India.
How was the condition of the first innings?
Afghanistan’s team got a very good start in this match, but in the middle overs the team faltered a bit and they lost 3 wickets at the score of 57. From there, Mohammad Nabi along with Azmatullah Omarzai took charge of Afghanistan’s innings and took the team’s score beyond 100 runs. Mohammad Nabi batted very fast during this period. Nabi scored 42 runs in just 27 balls. During this, he hit 2 fours and 3 sixes. Because of Nabi’s strong innings, Afghanistan set such a big target for India.
Team India chased the score like this
In this match against Afghanistan, Team India had a target of 159 runs to win. Which the Indian team chased in 17.3 overs. Shivam Dubey scored 60 runs on 40 balls for Team India. During this period he has hit 5 fours and 4 sixes. Shivam Dubey’s role was most important in the victory of Team India. He performed brilliantly with the ball in the first innings and with the bat in the second innings. However, Team India’s start in this run chase was not anything special. India had already lost the wicket of Rohit Sharma at the score of 0 in the first over. Team India had suffered two setbacks on 28 runs, but from here Shivam Dubey took over the Indian innings and won the match for India by first partnering with Jitesh Sharma and then Rinku Singh.
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