The primary T20I between India and Afghanistan was all about one man – Rohit Sharma. The Indian cricket workforce captain was making a comeback into the format after 14 months. That is India’s final worldwide T20 sequence forward of the T20 World Cup and Rohit Sharma’s efficiency was beneath focus. Nevertheless, his keep on the crease was shortened after a horrible mix-up with fellow opener Shubman Gill. On the second ball of the primary over by Fazalhaq Farooqi, Rohit Sharma was run out on 0.
Rohit was completely livid with Gill after the dismissal. He even gesticulated one thing on the teenager earlier than returning to the dug out. Rohit drove the ball to the mid-off and referred to as for the one. However Gill saved watching the ball and didn’t transfer. By then, Rohit had ran to the opposite finish. Afghanistan fielders made no mistake and ran Rohit Sharma out.
Rohit gone for duck #RohitSharma #Gill #IndvsAfg #INDvAFG pic.twitter.com/xpSGnreCm5
— Shubham Chand (@shubhamchand768) January 11, 2024
Rohit gone for Zero ,
Unhealthy name by Rohit , Gill wasn’t able to take the one,#INDvAFG #IndvsAfg #RohitSharma #ShubmanGill #TeamIndia #CricketTwitter pic.twitter.com/KIpCaTfl4v
— KAPIL DEV TAMRAKAR (@kapildevtamkr) January 11, 2024
A energetic 68-run partnership off 43 balls between the seasoned Mohammad Nabi and youthful Azmatullah Omarzai lifted Afghanistan to 158 for 5 after India dominated the powerplay within the first T20 on Thursday.
A stroke-filled partnership between Nabi (42 off 27) and Omarzai (29 off 22) was simply what Afghanistan wanted after India lowered the guests to 57 for 3 in 10 overs amid chilly circumstances on the PCA Stadium.
Openers Rahamanullah Gurbaz (23 off 28) and skipper Ibrahim Zadran (25 off 22) might solely discover 4 boundaries within the powerplay.
The beginning of the sport was delayed by a couple of minutes as a flickering blue mild across the sightscreen distracted Gurbaz.
Pacer Arshdeep Singh opened the innings with a maiden earlier than the spinners acquired into the sport as early because the fourth over.
Axar Patel, who ended up because the stand out bowler for India with figures of 4-0-23-2, had Gurbaz stumped with a quick and straight supply after the opener slog swept him for a six.
Zadran was the following to depart as he smashed an innocuous ball from Shivam Dube straight to India skipper Rohit Sharma at cowl. It was solely the second ball of his opening spell.
Rahmat Shah, making his T20 debut after enjoying 106 ODIs for Afghanistan, chopped on to stumps a flatter one from Axar.
Afghanistan badly wanted a transfer on and that got here through the expertise of Nabi and Omarzai, who had impressed along with his all-round talents within the ODI World Cup in India.
Whereas the top-order struggled to rotate strike, Omarzai and Nabi confirmed their teammates tips on how to construct a T20 innings.
Each focused Ravi Bishnoi and Mukesh Kumar within the center overs.
Nabi’s again to again sixes off Mukesh stood out in his quickfire knock. He first made room to smash him over further cowl and waited nonetheless for the second ball to dispatch it over mid-wicket. Najibullah Zadran (19 not out off 11) and Karim Janat (9 not out off 5) took the whole previous 150.
India dropped three catches within the biting chilly of Mohali. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal was unavailable for choice attributable to a sore proper groin.
With PTI inputs
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