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ICC Men's T20 World Cup, India vs Afghanistan Match Score : India has won by 47 runs against Afghanistan in the Super-8 of T20 World Cup-2024. Batting first, India scored 181 runs for eight wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, in response to which the Afghanistan team was all out for 134 runs in 20 overs. In today's match, Suryakumar Yadav (53) batted strongly for India and scored a half-century, while the magic of Jasprit Bumrah (3 wickets) and Arshdeep (3 wickets) was seen in bowling. With this, India has won the first of its three Super-8 matches.
Strong batting by Suryakumar Yadav
India's opening captain Rohit Sharma was out after scoring just eight runs. However, then Virat Kohli scored 24 runs, Rishabh Pant scored 20 runs, Suryakumar Yadav scored 53 runs, Shivam Dubey scored 10 runs, Hardik Pandya scored 32 runs, Ravindra Jadeja scored 7 runs, Axar Patel scored 12 runs and Arshdeep Singh remained unbeaten on two runs. While bowling, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh lost three wickets each, Kuldeep Yadav lost two and Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja lost one wicket each.
Afghanistan's Farooqi and Khan got three wickets each
Afghanistan's top-3 batsmen failed. Amatullah Amarzai scored 26, Najibullah Jardan scored 19, Gulbadin Naib scored 17 runs for the team, while all the other players failed. Talking about bowling, Fazal Haq Farooqi and Rashid Khan lost three wickets each, while Naveen-ul-Haq lost one wicket.
Afghanistan's top order flopped
Afghanistan had a bad start while chasing the target of 182 runs and Afghanistan's top batting order fell 3 wickets for 23 runs. In which Bumrah lost the wickets of both the opening and strong batsmen Gurbaz (11) and Hazratullah (2). However, after this Gulbadin (17), Umarzai (26) and Najibullah (19) who came in the middle order tried well to handle the innings, but Kuldeep Yadav and Bumrah did not let the batsmen stay on the pitch for long by taking wickets. After this, Afghanistan's wickets fell one after the other and India won by 47 runs by getting all out for 134 runs at the end of 20 overs.
India's real test is now against Australia
India has won one of its three Super-8 matches today. Now India's next match will be against Bangladesh on June 22 and after that against Australia on June 24.
Afghanistan's playing XI
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Najibullah Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Umarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan (c), Noor Ahmed, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi.
India's playing XI
Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah