Suryakumar Yadav (53) smashed an excellent 27-ball fifty as he led India to a cushty 47-run victory over Afghanistan throughout the Tremendous 8s stage of the T20 World Cup on the Kensington Oval.
Afghanistan restricted India to 90-4 after 10 overs however Suryakumar, who smashed 5 boundaries and three sixes, helped his aspect put up a commanding 181-8 in Bridgetown after they gained the toss and elected to bat.
Rashid Khan (3-26), who took his first ever T20I wicket towards India, and Fazalhaq Farooqi (3-33) completed with three wickets apiece however struggled to cease India’s middle-order from powering on.
In reply, India’s bowlers skittled Afghanistan for 134 all out with Jasprit Bumrah (3-7) changing into the main wicket-taker for his aspect and Arshdeep Singh (3-36) taking consecutive wickets within the 18th over.
Afghanistan’s batters struggled to kind a match-winning partnership, dropping their last 5 wickets for less than 32 runs as Rashid’s aspect suffered back-to-back losses.
The win takes India to the highest of the Group 1 desk with two factors with Afghanistan behind in second place. Rohit Sharma’s aspect are trying to find a primary T20 World Cup success since profitable the inaugural match in 2007.
Suryakumar helps India stay unbeaten
Afghanistan lowered India to 90-4 after left-arm pacer Farzalhaq Farooqi (3-33) eliminated Sharma (8) whereas Rashid trapped Rishabh Pant (20) and Shivam Dube (10) lbw, earlier than having Virat Kohli (24) caught long-off by Mohammad Nabi.
Suryakumar’s 28-ball cameo pulled India to 150-5 however his 60-run partnership with Hardik Pandya (32) was delivered to an finish after he toe-ended a cutter from Fazalhaq that Nabi pocketed at long-off.
Hardik launched a slot ball from Naveen-ul-Haq (1-40) for an 98-metre six however missed out on a large ball that he carved out to the sweeper within the 18th over.
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Rishabh Pant had a large let-off as Naveen-ul-Haq dropped a simple catch and pushed it into the boundary for a 4
Fazalhaq claimed the wicket of Ravindra Jadeja (7) earlier than he brought about any actual injury with a slower, quick ball to depart India 165-7.
This whole appeared considerably chaseable for Afghanistan after they confirmed glimpses of sturdy batting earlier within the match, however the last over went for 14 runs after Axar Patel (12) smashed a few boundaries and a nervy Naveen-ul-Haq bowling two wides permitting India to climb to a powerful 181-8.
Ruthless India expose Afghanistan
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Jasprit Bumrah claimed three wickets for simply seven runs from 4 overs towards Afghanistan
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (11) made a constructive begin to Afghanistan’s reply, hitting Arshdeep for a boundary and a six within the first over, however was dismissed by an excellent cutter from Bumrah within the following over.
Ibrahim Zadran (8) picked out India’s captain at further cowl off the bowling of Axar Patel (1-15) and provided Kohli some reprieve who dropped him at level on six earlier.
Bumrah fired in one other cutter that noticed the top of Hazratullah Zazai (2) to depart the opposition faltering on 23-3 earlier than the top of the powerplay.
Gulbadin (17) and Azmatullah Omarzai (26) supplied Afghanistan with some much-needed middle-order impetus, sharing a 44-run partnership to tug their aspect to a modest 67-3.
Nevertheless, their batting continued to unravel after Gulbadin toe-ended Kuldeep’s googly whereas Omarzai holed Axar out to long-on.
Najibullah Zadran (19) was caught by Arshdeep at quick third to present Bumrah one other wicket with Mohammad Nabi (14) holing out to Jadeja at deep mid-wicket to depart Afghanistan in hassle at 114-7.
Arshdeep took back-to-back wickets within the 18th over in dismissing Rashid (2) cheaply and having Naveen-ul-Haq caught behind however his hat-trick ball was edged behind by Farooqi for 4.
The India pacer took a wicket with the ultimate ball of the match as Noor Ahmed acquired a thick outdoors edge to cowl the place Rohit accomplished the catch with an enormous smile on his face.
What’s subsequent?
India come up towards Bangladesh on Saturday June 22 (3.30pm) in Antigua whereas Afghanistan face Australia on Sunday June 23 (1.30am) in Saint Vincent.
Catch each match from the T20 World Cup, together with the ultimate in Barbados on Saturday June 29, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
