🏏Asia Cup 2022 Super 4 - Match 5 : Afghanistan vs India🏏 - Page 25

Originally posted by: LuvAlways

Because they have a strong batting and bowling line up. Unke 10th number ke player bhi pressure waali situation mein chakke laga dete hai.

Dont underestimate SL too, they are high on confidence and they have been playing well too. Its gonna be a good match for sure.

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KL Rahul | Winning captain: Coming back after a big injury and surgery, I have realised playing the last few games it is not as easy as you think. I was eager to come and play but obviously finding the same touch or same rhythm wasn't coming easily as I thought it would. It is a learning for me as a player, happy I could spend some time in the middle and I started feeling good. In this format when you hit the first six off the middle gives you the confidence, I think the Hong Kong game I got a free-hit and though I didn't time it as well I could, I still hit the ball out of the ground and it felt good. Coming into the Pakistan game I felt little better and getting few shots away gave me the confidence, I am slowly getting into rhythm. The result has been disappointing. Ideally we would have wanted to play the final and challenge ourselves. We came into this tournament wanting to play the final and winning the big tournaments but it didn't go our way, we take the positives. We have been challenged and it is time to sit back and reflect. Losing is not great but sometimes you have to take it part of the journey, our vision is the World Cup and hopefully the learnings will help us for the World Cup.

Virat Kohli | Player of the Match: Firstly I am grateful for how the day went today. Time away from the game gave me a good chance to sit back and observe a lot of things about me. I mentioned one special person - Anushka - who stood by me through these tough times and I mentioned her as she has seen the absolute raw side of me throughout all these months. She was the one putting things in perspective for me, kept giving me the right kind of guidance, vision moving forward and I came back into the system as a relaxed person. It was just about enjoying the game, understanding the game and what God blessed you with. Today was the build-up of the last few games, I batted out of my skin to be honest and I surprised myself. What surprised me was my 60s became failures; quite shocking for me, batting pretty well and contributing but doesn't seem to be enough. I can't really pinpoint anything to anyone as I said God has blessed me with good things in the past and that's why I am in this position where these things can be spoken about. I have absolute no shame in admitting that God is blessing us all with everything in our destiny, we just have to work hard. So I went back to the drawing board, came back fresh and excited. The team environment have had great communication with me, kept me relaxed and kept my perspective right. When I came back there was not much information coming my way, they just said bat and it was matter of getting into the space of enjoyment. I have had many suggestions, lot of advice has come my way; people were telling me I was doing this wrong, that wrong, I picked out all the videos from the best time I had; same initial movement, same approach towards the ball and it was just what was happening inside my head I wasn't able to explain it to anyone. At the end of the day you know as an individual where you stand, people will have their opinions but they cannot feel what you are feeling. I am very grateful for that time and needed it to change my perspective.

This game started off as dead-rubber but it has given the Indian fans something to remember. Just like how India's loss to Bangladesh in the 2012 Asia Cup is remembered for Sachin Tendulkar's 100th hundred, this game will be known for Kohli breaking his hundred drought and reaching #71. India would be disappointed not going through to the final but their biggest take away from this tournament would be Kohli's return to form. Afghanistan were brilliant in the group stages but couldn't replicate the same performances in the Super Fours

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Originally posted by: SoniRSippu21

Virat Kohli | Player of the Match: Firstly I am grateful for how the day went today. Time away from the game gave me a good chance to sit back and observe a lot of things about me. I mentioned one special person - Anushka - who stood by me through these tough times and I mentioned her as she has seen the absolute raw side of me throughout all these months. She was the one putting things in perspective for me, kept giving me the right kind of guidance, vision moving forward and I came back into the system as a relaxed person. It was just about enjoying the game, understanding the game and what God blessed you with. Today was the build-up of the last few games, I batted out of my skin to be honest and I surprised myself. What surprised me was my 60s became failures; quite shocking for me, batting pretty well and contributing but doesn't seem to be enough. I can't really pinpoint anything to anyone as I said God has blessed me with good things in the past and that's why I am in this position where these things can be spoken about. I have absolute no shame in admitting that God is blessing us all with everything in our destiny, we just have to work hard. So I went back to the drawing board, came back fresh and excited. The team environment have had great communication with me, kept me relaxed and kept my perspective right. When I came back there was not much information coming my way, they just said bat and it was matter of getting into the space of enjoyment. I have had many suggestions, lot of advice has come my way; people were telling me I was doing this wrong, that wrong, I picked out all the videos from the best time I had; same initial movement, same approach towards the ball and it was just what was happening inside my head I wasn't able to explain it to anyone. At the end of the day you know as an individual where you stand, people will have their opinions but they cannot feel what you are feeling. I am very grateful for that time and needed it to change my perspective.

Congratulations to India for winning the match.🥳

Cheers..

Good morning friends😃. I am happy seeing the score, more specifically, seeing Virat Kohli's hundred. 👏

I know, our players' exit will be like this, they prefer to leave their mark before coming back to India to receive Australian players for another series of T 20.👍🏼

We lost back to back two games with a thinner margin, and, yes, this time, another team will grab the Asia cup.

Congratulations to team India for their emphatic victory in their last leg of this tournament. ⭐️

Originally posted by: vijay

What about fans who have been standing behind him and rooting for him throughout this phase. Every match praying to God that may he be back among runs.

Anyways… happy to see Virat scoring his first T20 century. 😊

See his scoring rate and shots 122 runs from 61 balls with 12 fours and six sixes, SR 200!!!