🏏India vs Afghanistan, 2nd T20I-Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore 🏏 - Page 17

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Congratulations to IndiA for winning the match.

Cheers..

An easy win and they claim the series as well.

In my opinion both Yashaswi and Shivam are Players of the match.

One started aggressively and the other finished with the same intensity.

Cheers..

So India seal the game with overs to go. Despite losing skipper Rohit Sharma for a duck, the hosts never broke a sweat in this chase. Kohli played overly aggressive, playing a few proper slogs as he scored a brisk 29 before falling to Naveen-ul-Haq. Jaiswal on the other end though stayed busy throughout his innings, always looking for the aggressive option. He attacked Mujeeb and Noor Ahmad, getting to a 27-ball fifty. At the other end was the spin basher Shivam Dube who took down an experienced campaigner like Nabi for three consecutive sixes, and then there was no turning back. Another impressive knock from the southpaw, as he notched up a 22-ball fifty and stayed till the end to help his team cross the line. Karim Janat came on and stalled the end by picking two in his first over, but the result was never in doubt. India take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series, stay around for the presentations.

India record in home T20I series since June 2019

Played 15

Won 13 *

Drawn 2

Lost 0

Worst ER for Afghanistan spinners in a T20I

13.85 vs Ind Indore 2024 (97 runs/7 overs) *

10.21 vs Ind Gros Islet 2010 (80/7.5)

10.18 vs Ire Abu Dhabi 2013 (112/11)

9.71 vs Ind Abu Dhabi 2021 (68/7)

Shivam Dube: The skipper is really happy with my performance, he told me well played. (On Jaiswal) We both are stroke players, we know our game. My role was to take on the spinners, but our plan was to both attack and finish the game early. There wasn't any target in mind, but we should have finished the game earlier. There are many things that I have worked on, apart from skill it is about how mentally you prepare for the T20 game. How to handle pressure, and deciding which bowlers to take on. It isn't important to hit every ball. I have been working on my bowling as well, happy that it worked out in the first game but not as much today. But that is how T20 cricket is.

Highest targets successfully chased vs Afghanistan in T20Is

176 SL Sharjah 2022

173 Ind Indore 2024 *

169 Ire Belfast 2022

163 HK Abu Dhabi 2015

Ibrahim Zadran: We were quite short. We had a good start but not very good after that. Sometimes we play well in the powerplay, sometimes in the middle and sometimes at the death. We need to build the momentum throughout and not repeat mistakes to have a good T20 World Cup. (On Gulbadin Naib) He's the most senior guy, we trust him and when he played a few shots in the powerplay, we wanted him to take that momentum throughout the innings.