Following his facet’s six-wicket loss to India within the first T20I, Afghanistan skipper Ibrahim Zadran mentioned that his facet was at the least 15 runs quick and that the facet has to enhance its fielding too. A half-century by Shivam Dube and a cameo by Jitesh Sharma helped India safe a six-wicket win over Afghanistan within the first T20I of the three-match sequence at Mohali on Thursday.
“We had been quick 13-15 runs. We misplaced the toss too. However the boys fought nicely. We had been making an attempt to have an excellent powerplay begin however we misplaced wickets then. Considered one of us ought to’ve gone for 14-15 overs however we misplaced back-to-back wickets. When new batters got here, we got here below stress. (Fielding effort) Within the second inning, there was dew and gripping the ball was troublesome. I can say that the boys tried rather well. (Different areas of enchancment) We are going to attempt to enhance our fielding. We had been fairly lazy with the fielding right now. We are going to attempt to enhance batting as nicely. Bowling, we have now no situation. We are going to deal with what we did mistaken right now,” mentioned Zadran in post-match presentation.
Coming to the match, put to bat first by India, Afghanistan had an excellent begin, with skipper Ibrahim Zadran (25 in 22 balls, with two fours and a six) and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (23 in 28 balls, with two fours and a six) including 50 runs for the primary wicket.
After Indian bowlers lowered Afghanistan to 57/3, A 68-run partnership between Azmatullah Omarzai (29 in 22 balls, with two fours and a six) and Mohammed Nabi (42 in 27 balls, with two fours and three sixes) bringing them again into the match. A strong partnership between Najibullah Zadran (19*) and Karim Janat (9*) on the again finish of the innings took them to 158/5 in 20 overs.
Axar Patel (2/23) and Mukesh Kumar (2/33) had been the choose of the bowlers for India. Shivam Dube received one wicket.
Within the chase of 159, India misplaced skipper Rohit Sharma for a duck on his return to T20Is. Shubman Gill (23 in 12 balls, 5 fours) confirmed intent however couldn’t convert his begin into large rating. A 44-run stand between Shivam Dube and Tilak Varma (26 in 22 balls, with two fours and a six) introduced India again into the match. Later, a 45-run stand between Shivam and Jitesh Sharma (31 in 20 balls, with 5 fours) took India near a win. Dube scored his second T20I half-century, getting 60 in 40 balls with 5 fours and two sixes and joined forces with Rinku Singh (16*) to win the sport for India.
Mujeeb ur Rahman took two wickets for Afghanistan, whereas Omarzai received a wicket.
India is 1-0 up within the sequence, with two video games to go. Dube was given the ‘Participant of the Sequence’ award.
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