India vs Afghanistan 3rd T20I Highlights: IND beat AFG in 2nd Super Over

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Qais Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem Safi, Fareed Ahmad Malik

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: So Samson does get the nod ahead of Jitesh Sharma. What do you think?

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Sanju Samson(w), Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Avesh Khan

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Sure enough, Rohit Sharma has won the toss and said that the hosts will bat first.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Regardless of the conditions, chances are that India will be looking to bat first and put up a big score. Rohit has won the toss in both previous matches, let us see if that happens again today as the two captains walk out.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: The last time India lost a T20I series at home was in 2019. That was a 2-0 loss to Australia. Since then, they have drawn two series against South Africa and beaten Bangladesh, West Indies, Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand and Australia.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: The contrast between how Afghanistan and India's batting lineups have performed underlines the former's troubles. Rahmanullah Gurbaz hasn't shone in this series which has hurt Afghanistan a lot. Gulbadin Naib's performance in the previous match, though, gives them something to work on.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Afghanistan's spin attack is always seen as their biggest asset but in this series, their bowlers have not been able to stop the Indian batters from smashing their way out of the powerplay, despite keeping Rohit Sharma quiet. They arguably lost both their games in the chase based on a couple of partnerships.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Axar Patel braved the cold conditions in Mohali, where he joked he couldn't feel the ball in his hands most times, and returned 2/23 in his four overs. In the second, on an absolute batting paradise of a pitch in Indore, Axar recorded figures of 2/17 and won player of the match for his efforts.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Axar has been incredible with the ball in this series and while Washington Sundar may not have reached those heights, he has been just as good. Both players have not got a chance to bat but the fact that they are available at No.7 and No.8 has definitely helped the Indian top order to swing their bat freely in the first two matches. With Ravindra Jadeja waiting in the wing, there is a good chance that India could stick to this combination in the T20 World Cup, with probably Sundar taking a back seat.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: The all-rounder had become a bit of a forgotten figure in Indian cricket before last year's IPL. International appearances dried up for him after February 2020 and he made his comeback to the team in August 2023 for the T20I series in Ireland. He was also part of the squad for the Asian Games but in this one, he seems to have made the kind of impact that could break a few selection doors. Dube recorded figures of 1/9 in his two overs in the first T20I and then smashed an unbeaten 60 in 40 balls to power and complete India's chase. In the second he returned 1/36 and then blased an unbeaten 63 in 32 balls to once again be the protagonist, this time a title that he shared with Yashasvi Jaiswal, in a chase. He was a revelation as a power-hitter in the 2023 IPL and he has translated that form to international cricket.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: The never-ending saga that is Samson's international career might be given another chance for a newish chapter today. With the series already in the bag, India might decide to give the 29-year-old a go ahead of Jitesh Sharma.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, 3rd T20I: Groundstaff has plenty of time to prepare a new pitch for this match and so we most probably won't have a repeat of the kind of dominance of spin that was seen during the last T20I played here last month, hot on the heels of the 2023 World Cup. The forecast promises a clear, pleasant evening with temperatures in the mid-20s Celsius.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Virat Kohli is just six runs away from becoming the first Indian, and fourth player overall, to score 12,000 runs in T20 cricket. The only players to have scored more than him are Kieron Pollard (12454), Shoaib Malik (12993) and Chris Gayle (14562).

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: The Afghanistan stalwart is 67 runs away from becoming the second Afghanistan batter to score 2000 runs in T20Is. The first of course was Mohammad Shahzad, who made 2048 runs in 73 matches.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Jaiswal made his debut in August last year and since then, he has played 16 T20Is. He has scored 498 runs at an incredible strike rate of 163.81 and already has a century and four half-centuries to his name. It is safe to say that he won't be selected in the squad for this year's T20 World Cup only if he is injured or if he stinks up the place in the IPL.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: This is just in folks. Axar Patel has leaped to his career-best fifth place, while opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal rose to the sixth spot in the latest ICC men’s T20I player rankings. Patel’s hauls of two for 23 and two for 16 in India’s identical six-wicket wins over Afghanistan in the first two T20Is of their three-match series have also lifted him two places to 16th among all-rounders.

Jaiswal’s 34-ball 68 in the first T20I in Indore lifted him seven places to a career-best sixth position, while other left-hander Shivam Dube’s successive unbeaten knocks of 60 and 63 have helped him shoot up from 265th to 58th.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rinku Singh have made a world of a difference to India's cause and are pretty much locked in for the T20 World Cup. Shivam Dube, on the other hand has shown his class in this series with his unbeaten half-centuries. Of India players with at least 200 T20I runs, Rinku Singh (176.07), Yashasvi Jaiswal (163.81) and Shivam Dube (149.45) have three of the four best strike rates. Suryakumar Yadav (171.55) is the other member of the top four

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, 3rd T20I: Chances are that this match will have little bearing on how India line up in the T20 World Cup. There is an entire IPL to be played before that though and that will be something that the selectors will be keeping an eye on. Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Suryakumar Yadav are among the big names missing in this squad and they will all be playing in the IPL.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: That came just a few days ago, on December 23 last year and it marked India's first T20I match win at the Chinnaswamy since February 2017. India scored 160/8 wih Shreyas Iyer scoring 53 in 37 balls and Axar Patel making 31 in 21 balls. Axar then recorded incredible figures of 1/14 in four overs as Australia were limited to a score of 154/8.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: The first T20I match to be played here was between India and Pakistan. It was Pakistan who won that match by five wickets. In fact, India have won just three out of the seven T20Is they have played here. It served as the venue for two matches in the 2016 T20 World Cup between Sri Lanka and West Indies (West Indies won by seven wickets) and Australia and Bangladesh (Australia won by three wickets).

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Tiny ground, flat wicket, the Chinnaswamy is tailor-made for the the smash-bang run fests that brings in the moolah nowadays in T20 cricket. In all this, the bowler is sometimes forgotten but Arshdeep Singh explained how bowlers can make it work in their favour. "As bowlers we feel we have nothing to lose here [Chinnaswamy stadium]. The batters are under pressure to score more and more boundaries. That's where as a bowler you're in the game and you can get more wickets as well," he said.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Afghanistan have shown little patches of their brilliance but it is quite clear that they have missed Rashid Khan dearly in the bowling attack and as a lower order dasher. "I think we've played some good cricket in parts. But there's also times where we perhaps haven't been as good as we expect from ourselves. We're hoping to get closer to good 40 overs from ourselves tomorrow and be able to put some pressure on the Indian side, specially in the middle overs with the ball," said their head coach Jonathan Trott.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Kohli has a 50-plus average in T20I cricket and is India's most prolific of all time in the T20 format overall by some margin. However, he is not known to be the quickest of scorers and with the role of anchors slowly eroding away in the modern day game, it seems Kohli has also made a conscious effort to change his ways. He was looking to smash the ball everywhere in the second T20I and was reasonably successful doing it as well, scoring 29 runs in 16 balls in front of a rapturous Indore crowd.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score, IND vs AFG 3rd T20I: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Hazratullah Zazai, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Ikram Alikhil, Qais Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem Safi, Rahmat Shah