India and Afghanistan are locking horns in a Super 12 round match of the T20 World Cup 2021 in Abu Dhabi. India are still winless in the tournament while Afghanistan are in a good position on the points table.
Afghanistan won the toss and opted to bowl first. India brought Suryakumar Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing XI while leaving Ishan Kishan and Varun Chakaravarthy. On the other hand, Sharafuddin Ashraf and Hamid Hassan came in Afghanistan’s playing XI.
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Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul walked out to open the innings. They were in good touch from the very beginning and scored boundaries at will. Both openers got into their groove and started punishing Afghanistan bowlers.
Rohit Sharma in particular was looking more threatening as he wasn’t showing mercy on any bowler. Afghanistan’s fielding was poor as well during the match. In the 10th over of the innings, Rohit Sharma played a shot towards the point, where an Afghan fielder put a desperate dive to save the boundary. Despite making it to the ball, it looked that the fielder pushed the ball towards the boundary while completing his dive.
Seeing this, Pakistan fans have started claiming that Afghanistan have fixed the match and they aren’t even trying to hide this fact.
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Watch the video here;
How is this not fixed? #INDvsAFG pic.twitter.com/WSAymZy31x
— Waqas Ahmed (@ahmedwaqas992) November 3, 2021
— msc media (@mscmedia2) November 3, 2021
This is how a fixed match look like. Body language says it all. Shame on you! #INDvsAFG #fixed pic.twitter.com/cwfJxq1MyK
— Eraj (@Erajj19) November 3, 2021
Match FIXED.
Economy FIXED.
Aid FIXED.
Government FIXED.
Old habits die hard Afghanistan…….
— Mir Mohammad Alikhan (@MirMAKOfficial) November 3, 2021
Match between #AFGvIND seems fixed 🙏
— Jameel Farooqui (@FarooquiJameel) November 3, 2021
This match of India and Afghanistan is fixed …! The captain who loses the toss is saying to the winner, do the ball first. Have you ever seen that? It is the job of Indians to fool the world …@vikrantgupta73@ICC@ashoswai#T20WorldCup#fixed pic.twitter.com/gLXZZzweh1
— فیصل رانا (@faisalpk550) November 3, 2021
Rohit Sharma scored a flamboyant fifty and got out after scoring 74 runs in 47 balls, which featured eight fours and three sixes.
India Playing XI: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah.
Afghanistan Playing XI: Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Mohammad Nabi (c), Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Naveen-ul-Haq, Hamid Hassan.
