Cricket Highlights, 8 Sep: Asia Cup 2022 – Super Four, Match 5 (IND vs AFG)

IND vs AFG (Super Four, Match 5) – Highlights

Afghanistan ended all hopes of playing in the final in the previous day’s match. They confirmed their departure with India. The remaining two matches of the Super Four are only formalities.

However, they did not win a single match in the Super Four – Afghanistan and India. As a result, the last match has become a dignity. Afghans and Indians will want to return home with at least one victory.

For that purpose, these two teams met in Dubai yesterday and Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi won the toss at the beginning. After winning the toss, he decided to field naturally and invited Indian captain Lokesh Rahul to bat.

Lokesh Rahul and Virat Kohli got off to a great start after losing the toss to bat. Virat Kohli and Lokesh Rahul were brilliant against the Afghans. India was on their way to a big score with their bat.

Kohli and Lokesh Rahul scored 119 runs in the opening pair. But Lokesh Rahul got out after scoring 62 runs off 41 balls. He hit 6 boundaries and 2 sixes. Then Suryakumar Yadav was bowled by Farid Ahmed after hitting only one six. Then they didn’t have to look back.

Because no more wickets fell. Kohli made a partnership of 87 runs with Rishabh Pant. Out of these 20 runs were only from Pant. The rest were all Kohli’s.

After 1021 days of waiting, Kohli saw the century. Not only that, he scored a century for the first time in the T20 format at the domestic or international level. Kohli remained unbeaten on 122 runs off 61 balls against Afghanistan. He also hit 6 sixes with 12 boundaries.

Kohli entered the triple-figures after more than three years in any format. Kohli also made records like Ricky Ponting with this century. Former Australian captain Ponting has 71 centuries in all formats. Kohli also has 71 centuries. This time only Sachin Tendulkar is ahead of him. Whose number of centuries is 100. In this match, India set a huge target of 213 runs for Afghanistan based on Virat Kohli’s stormy batting.

Chasing the huge score of 212 runs made by Virat Kohli’s team, Afghanistan’s innings stopped at 111 runs. Afghans were able to score 111 runs by losing 8 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. As a result, India leaves the field with a win.

Afghanistan was in danger from the start when they came down to bat with a target of 213 runs. Top order Ibrahim Zadran struggled alone against the Indian bowlers. He scored 64 runs off 59 balls alone. Not only that, the Indian bowlers could not even get him out.

Rashid Khan scored 15 and Mujib-ur Rahman scored 18 runs. Apart from this, no other batsman could touch the double-digits. Karim Janat(2), Mohammad Nabi(7), Azmatullah Omarzai(1), and Farid Ahmad Malik(1) departed from the field quickly. Hazratullah Jazai, Najibullah Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz were out for zero runs.

Among the Indian bowlers, Bhuvneshwar Kumar alone took 5 wickets. He achieved the rare feat of taking 5 wickets with 1 maiden and only 4 runs in 4 overs. This is the best bowling in his career. Besides, Arshdeep Singh, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Deepak Hooda took 1 wicket each.

IND vs AFG Scoreboard

India – 212/2 (20.0)

Afghanistan – 111/8 (20.0)

Result – India won by 101 runs

Player of the match – Virat Kohli 

IND vs AFG Playing XIs