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 started hitting boundaries from the very first over. Both openers took no time in getting into their grooves and started punishing Afghanistan bowlers.
Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul were in the mood for fun and scored fast runs. The duo scored 140 runs for the opening wicket before Rohit got out for 74 runs. Rishabh Pant was promoted to bat at 3. KL Rahul also notched up his fifty and got out after scoring 69 runs. Hardik Pandya got out to bat at 4.
Both Hardik and Rishabh scored fast runs in the death overs. Naveen-ul-Haq came to bowl the 19th over of the innings. Hardik tried to put the ball over the lone-off boundary but the ball skied and Najibullah Zadran came under to catch. But he failed to hold on to it. Seeing an opportunity, Hardik ran for a second run and crashed dangerously into Afghanistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Shahzad.
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Hardik scored 35 runs in just 13 balls while Pant scored 27 runs in 13 balls, which propelled India’s score to 210/2 in 20 overs.
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.
