India vs Afghanistan, T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: SKY, Bumrah lead IND to comprehensive 47-run win

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: “The last two years, we have come here (the West Indies) and played some T20 games. We planned a little well. We adapted well to the conditions that were offered. We knew the class of our bowling line up will defend this. Everyone coming in and doing their job. That is something we keep talking about. Surya and Hardik's partnership was a good one in the end. We know what Bumrah can do for us. It is important for us to use him smartly. He is the one who is ready to take the responsibility as well. Whereever he plays, he is always ready to take the responsibility. I got to assess the conditions. Looking at the opposition we are ready to make any changes. We thought three spinners would be good, we went for that. Going forward if needed, I am open to playing three seamers.”

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: “That was a surface we thought we could chase 170-180. You just go there and how you play. Against bigger teams, we should be thinking we will have to chase such scores. Body is feeling well. I struggled a little in the IPL. I am hitting the areas consistently now. We have enjoyed everywhere we have played. We forget our own skills sometimes. If the conditions are there, we will look to use it.”

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: “There's a lot of hardwork, there are a lot of processes and routine involved in it. I am clear in my mind what I want to do. I don't mind giving this Player of the Match to a bowler. First time it's going to a batter (from India in this tournament), I don't mind. I think you just need to know your game plan, and just play accordingly. I still remember when Hardik came in to the bat, I told him let's bat with the same intent. Let's keep pressing the pedal and keep pushing, in the end very happy with a score of 180.”

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Arshdeep takes his own sweet time to finish the last over but when he does, he ends it with a wicket. Before that he bowled two consecutive wides.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Well it's only a maiden technically as Afghanistan ran a leg bye off the last ball. Arshdeep to bowl the formality, Noor Ahmad on strike. Bumrah has finished with imperious figures of 3/7. Utterly bonkers.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 126/9 in 19 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Naveen comes, swings, and goes. Arshdeep is on a hat-trick. Naveen tries to pull a short ball across the line, top edge and Rishabh Pant takes an easy catch. Well you can't really blame Naveen, the game is gone, so why not try to hit one to St. Lucia.

Naveen-ul-Haq c Pant b Arshdeep Singh 0 (1)

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 121.9 in 17.5 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Rashid goes for the big shot fourth ball of the 18th. Gets no good connection on it at all and it goes sky high into the air, Jadeja makes no mistake with the catch at deep third.

Rashid c Jadeja b Arshdeep Singh 2 (6)

IND vs AFG Live Score: Imndia 121/8 in 17.5 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Six and out for Mohammad Nabi, Kuldeep gets his second in his last over. Nabi had cleared long off with the second ball of the over. Goes for a similar shot but this time holes out at deep midwicket.

Nabi c Jadeja b Kuldeep Yadav 14 (14)

IND vs AFG Live Score: 114/7 in 16.2 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Zadran hits it to Arshdeep Singh at point and the fielder takes quite a sharp catch. He times his jump perfectly and rtakes the catch in the air at chest level. It is all coming apart quite quickly now for Afghanistan. They need 80 to win off 28 and there is no sign of a miracle anywhere.

Zadran c Arshdeep Singh b Bumrah 19 (17)

IND vs AFG live Score: Afghanistan 102/6 in 15.2 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Both Jadeja and Kuldeep have bowled three overs each, Hardik Pandya to bowl the 15th over. Afghanistan have Mohammad Nabi and Najibullah Zadran in the middle. Nabi is on six off eight, Zadran on 13 off 13. Afghanistan's required run rate has crept up to 15.16 now. They need 91 to win off the last 36 balls.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 91/5 in 14 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: There are then wickets. Omarzai and Naib bid their time but now those seconds are coming back to haunt Afghanistan as they have to go after everything. First delivery of the 12th, turns off a length and Omarzai toe-ends the shot straight into the hands of the fielder at long-on.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: And it is the dangerous Gulbadin Naib who falls. A tossed up googly from Kuldeep, Naib goes for the big shot and it goes high up in the air and nowhere else. Wicketkeeper Pant settles himself underneath it nicely and that is that.

Gulbadin Naib c Pant b Kuldeep Yadav 17 (21)

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 67/3 in 10.2 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: The required rate has crept up to 11.60 and Afghanistan are going at 6.60. All this pressure is going to tell soon enough in a flurry of wickets, Gulbadin and Omarzai need to do some serious big hitting in the next two overs to get out of this hole. They can start by targetting Kuldeep, who is bowling the 11th over.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 66/3 in 10 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Seven runs off the eighth over by Axar. Gulbadin on 10 off 14, Omarzai on 14 off 11. One of these two have to get a move on now, Afghanistan's required run rate has gone up to 11.25.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 47/3 in 8 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Pandya overpitches his first delivery in the seventh over and Omarzai accepts the freebie with glee, gets down on a knee and slaps it through cover. Single off the next ball and then Pandya keeps Gulbadin pinned to the spot. The batters are guilty of not being alert enough to rotate the strike there though. Axar coming for the next over, expect Kuldeep to follow him.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 40/3 in 7 overs.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Gulbadin Naib helps Afghanistan end the powerplay on a high. Two singles off the fourth and fifth balls of the over bowled by Axar. Then Gulbadin goes to the backfoot for the last ball and punches it straight over long-on for a six. That was a shot and a half right there. Gulbadin on seven off seven, Azmatullah Omarzai at the other end on five off six.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 35/3 in 6 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Bumrah strikes with the first ball of the fifth. Afghanistan in disarray in the powerplay. The ball grips on the deck and Zazai is caught out by the bounce. The batter tries to work it leg side, gets an edge to point where Jadeja has the easiest of catches to take.

Hazratullah Zazai c Jadeja b Bumrah 2 (4)

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 23/3 in 4.1 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Kohli's drop hasn't proved too costly. Ibrahim Zadran hits the fourth ball of the fourth straight to extra cover. Zadran had moved to make room but Axar followed him and cramped him up.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: You don't get to see that too often. Arshdeep bowls his second over in the third over, Zadran punches the fourth ball uppishly straight to Kohli at point but the ball bursts through his hands! Zadran had hit a four off the previous ball. He is on eight off seven at the end of the over, Zazai on two off three.

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 23/1 in 3 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: And it is dangerman Gurbaz who falls as well. Gurbaz tries to go leg side but the delivery is outside is hitting arc. Gets a thin edge and a straightforward catch for Pant.

Gurbaz c Pant b Bumrah 11 (8)

IND vs AFG Live Score: Afghanistan 13/1 in 1.2 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Arshdeep starts with a wide and then Gurbaz hits the first legal delivery straight down the ground for a four. Another wide fourth ball and then Gurbaz smashes the fifth over deep midwicket for a six. A single to end the over.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Here are the players! Arshdeep Singh is bowling the first over for India. Rahmanullah Gurbaz facing up with Hazratullah Zazai at the other end.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: It was in the middle overs that SKY did most of the damage and he says he has practiced batting in that period the most. “I like to take charge in that phase, I enjoy it. I started chewing my gum harder when he (Kohli) got out. I just backed my game and my instincts. I have played a lot of cricket with him (Rohit Sharma) and now under him, he understands my game. He knows my game, so he sits back and enjoys it. It's a good total, let's see what happens now,” he said.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Axar Patel with 12 valuable runs in the end that came in just five balls. India have got a score that is quite comfortably above par.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Jadeja finds the gap between deep square leg and deep fine leg for a four off the third ball of the 19th. Then Jadeja chases a slower bouncer with an upper cut, mistimes that straight to the fielder at short third.

Jadeja c Gulbadin Naib b Fazalhaq Farooqi 7 (5)

IND vs AFG Live Score: India 165/7 in 19 overs