India beats Afghanistan by six wickets in opening encounter, leading the series by 1/0:
Summary:
Afghanistan:
158/5 in 20 overs (Mohammad Nabi 42) (Axar 2/23, Mukesh 2/33)
India:
159/4 in 17.3 overs (Shivam Dude 60) (Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2/21)
India wins by 6 wickets.
Details:
The home team stop Afghanistan on the 158 runs with 5 wickets and they achieve this target quit easily on 17.3 overs with six wickets in hand. India beats Afghanistan quit easy by six wickets in opening encounter and make his lead by 1/0 in the series.
Earlier, India was impressive with the ball Axar Patel the left arm spinner was the most successful with the figures of 2/23 in his four overs along with Mukesh Kumar who bagged 2/33 in this opening match of the series.Mohammad Nabi shown some dominant with his bat as the top scorer by Afghanistan. He scores 42 of 27 balls to take his team to fighting total.
India started their inning with disappointed moment as the captain Rohit Sharma got run out in the first over by Ibrahim Zadran. And Subhman Gill (23) got out in 4th over by Mujeeb Ur Rahman. Tilak Verma got some momentum but got out in 9th over. After that Shivam Dude played the anchored role. He scored unbeaten 60 runs on 40 balls.
Player of the Match:
With the anchor innings, Shivam Dude awarded the man on the match. In the post match interview, he speaks I really enjoyed to play on this ground but it was really cold. Playing after a long time on batting no 4. It was bit pressure for me but I have only one thing in my mind I have to play in my own style. I feel bit pressure first 2 3 balls from my style. but after that I don’t think too much and just focus on the ball.i know I can get runs anyway and I can hit big sixes in t20 game. Rohit Sharma post game chat, he said I played really well. It can improve my game more in upcoming games. Today I executed this opportunity as I had to.
Rohit Sharma Speaks:
To be honest it was too much cold hare. Now I’m ok. I could not feel my fingers when the ball hits on my fingers. When ball hits on the finger tips it is a little sore. Lot of positives, especially with the ball. It was not an easiest condition but our spinners bowled really well. it happens in frustration because you want to be there and score runs for you team. Wanted Gill to carry on. He played good inning but god out.
Shivam Dude the way Jitesh batted, Tilak as well and also Rinku played really well. Want to try new things. Want to make bowler try few different things. As Washy bowled 19th over. We will try different things but not on the cost of winning. Keep this in mind.
Ibrahim Zadran Speaks after defeat:
We lost the toss. And also 30 to 40 runs short in the total. But our boys fought well. We want to attack in power play but unfortunately we lose wickets there. We came under pressure after losing the back to back wickets. In the fielding effort there was lot of dew that make gripping the ball so difficult for the bowlers. We will try to work on improve our fielding. We were quite lazy in the field. We will try to improve our batting skills as well. I can say the boys tried really well. We have no issues with the bowling. Will focus on the mistakes we did today.
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