India vs Afghanistan 2nd T20I Highlights: Dube, Jaiswal carnage ensures 6-wicket win, IND confirm series win

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Shivam Dube's career seems to have been rejuvenated since joining Chennai Super Kings at the IPL. He credited the conversations he had with MS Dhoni at CSK and the fact that both Dhoni and Rohit are trusting him with playing higher up the order. "I keep speaking to Mahi bhai. He tells me how to tackle different situations. He has given me two, three tips and rated my batting. So, I feel if he rates my batting then I'll keep playing well. My confidence went up because of that. In a T20 it's important for a batter to finish games off while chasing so doing that for the team felt very good," he told bcci.tv. When asked what message Rohit gave him, Dube said: "He told me only one thing, 'keep playing this way, be positive in your game. You know you can score from anywhere and you can win us the game from anywhere'."

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Azmatullah Omarzai was the stand out player for Afghanistan with bat and ball in the 2023 World Cup and he showed glimpses of that in the first T20I. Mujeeb bowls in the powerplay for them but if there is swing on offer early in the game, Afghanistan might pair up Omarzai with Fazalhaq Farooqi.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Virat Kohli is 35 runs away from becoming the first Indian - and fourth overall - to score 12,000 runs in T20 cricket. Kieron Pollard, Shoaib Malik and Chris Gayle are the only ones above him on the list.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Sundar has to be one of the more unlucky players in the Indian circuit. Just as he was beginning to look like making a serious bid to be an India regular in all format, injuries came in between. His performances with the bat in Test cricket were such that there were serious calls to consider him as a batting all-rounder, as opposed to being a spinner who can bat. For now, though, that is the role assigned to him and he will be looking to make the most of it in the remaining two games.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: India won the toss and bowled first in Mohali. Mohammad Nabi and Azmatullah Omarzai's attack after the 10th over helped them get to a score of 158/5. India were challenged with the bat but the Shivam Dube smashed an unbeaten 60 off 40 balls to lead India to victory. He had also taken a wicket in the Afghanistan innings and was deservedly the player of the match.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Axar was unlucky to miss out on the 2023 World Cup but is back in the thick of it in T20Is. Moreover, he will be integral to India's cause in the upcoming Test series against England as well. Axar dished out a fine spell at the PCA Stadium on Thursday night as well -- 4-0-23-2. The Gujarat man will be eager to weave on the pattern and contribute to a series triumph here.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Ishan Kishan seems to have hit some rough shores with the selectors and team management and this means that there is just a tiny bit of a chance of the wicketkeeper-batter's position being open for Jitesh Sharma to make his own, unless Rishabh Pant is included in the T20 World Cup squad of course. Jitesh has all the reasons to place himself among the frontrunners as the wicketkeeper batter has overtaken Ishan Kishan in the pecking order since replacing the latter from the fourth T20I against Australia at Raipur last year. The Maharashtra man has struck a couple of useful 30s down the order, but he would not have missed the need for a bigger knock to cement his claim. In the often-fickle selection landscape of Indian cricket, Jitesh, at 30, would know very well that only constant performances can help him save that frontrunner status.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Novak Djokovic was recently seen having a hit with Steve Smith in Melbourne before the start of the Australian Open. But Smith is not the only modern day cricket great that the Serbian tennis legend is friends. Virat Kohli recently revealed that he had some friendly words with Djokovic recently as well. Read more about that here.

This was supposed to be Rashid Khan's first competitive cricket assignment since the end of the 2023 World Cup. But he is missing this three-match T20 series as he needs more time to recover from a lower-back injury that required a surgery, captain Ibrahim Zadran said on Wednesday, on the eve of the opening match. Khan has pulled out of T20 franchise leagues in Australia and South Africa since he picked up the injury in November. "He is not totally fit, but is travelling with the team... he's doing his rehab with the doctor, and we will miss him in the series," Zadran told reporters in Mohali before the first game.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Rohit Sharma will be expected to open with Yashasvi Jaiswal, who missed the previous game due to an injury. He will replace Shubman Gill, whose mistake saw Rohit depart for a two-ball duck. In 15 T20Is, Jaiswal has registered 430 runs, with a century and three fifties. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli, who missed the first T20I due to personal reasons, will be back into the playing XI and replace Tilak Varma. Kohli will slot in at his usual no. 3 position, and will be followed by Dube at no. 4, who also received Player of the Match in the previous fixture. Dube's all-round skills will once again be crucial, and he also took a wicket in the previous fixture. Read more here.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Indore isn't as icy cold as Mohali was but it isn't too hot either. In fact it is just perfect cricketing conditions at the moment with temperatures expected to hover below the 15 degrees celsius mark after sundown. Good batting conditions with consistent bounce to play your shots.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: The Holkar Stadium has hosted just three T20Is in the past, two of which were won by India. They hosted two games between India and Sri Lanka in December 2017 and January 2020, both of which the hosts had won. Then they lost to South Africa by 49 runs in October 2022. In two of these games, one side has managed to score over 200 runs. In fact in the first match, India scored a mammoth 260/5 with Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul's opening stand of 165 coming in just 12.4 overs. Rohit had scored 118 in 43 balls while Rahul made 89 in 49. Sri Lanka, in response, were all out for 172

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Hazratullah Zazai, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Ikram Alikhil, Qais Ahmad, Noor Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem Safi

Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma(w), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Tilak Varma, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 2nd T20I: There is no moving on yet from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma it seems for Team India. Despite the plethora of young players popping up, the selectors have decided to give the old firm a go in the final T20I series before the T20 World Cup, with the IPL to come in between though.

Does this mean that Rohit and Kohli will play the T20 World Cup? Or are the selectors just letting everyone know that the two most prolific run scorers in the format are still in consideration, despite not playing T20Is for over a year before this series, and not play any T20s since the 2023 IPL? Well, the Lord, the world and the Indian selectors worketh in strange ways so, who knows. What we do know is that Virat Kohli is set to make an appearance today and it will be interesting to see just how he fits back into this squad.