Rahul Tiwari
khelja|21-06-2024
After a great performance in the league round of the T20 World Cup, Team India has now registered a wonderful victory in the first match of the Super 8 round. Team India defeated Afghanistan by 47 runs in a one-sided fashion in their first Super 8 match played in Barbados. Suryakumar Yadav and Jaspreet Bumrah wrote the script of Afghanistan's defeat. Surya scored 53 runs in just 28 balls on the difficult pitch of Barbados. Jaspreet Bumrah showed his excellence in bowling and took the maximum of 3 wickets. With this victory, Team India has now reached the top in Group 1 of Super 8.
Team India's captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat first. Team India had a bad start. Captain Rohit Sharma was out in the third over. He could score only 8 runs. After this, Rishabh Pant batted fast and hit 4 fours in his own style. But he became the victim of Rashid Khan on a personal score of 20 runs.
After this, Virat Kohli also threw his wicket after being set at the crease for a long time. He could score only 24 runs in 24 balls and his wicket was also taken by Rashid Khan. After this, Suryakumar Yadav showed his strength on the Barbados pitch and scored 53 runs in just 28 balls. Surya scored his second consecutive half-century in this T20 World Cup. Shivam Dubey failed in the middle order but vice-captain Hardik Pandya once again played a strong innings with the bat. This player scored 32 runs in 24 balls. Axar Patel also hit well in the last over and scored 12 runs in 6 balls to take Team India's score to 181 runs.
Afghanistan tried to make a fast start to chase the target but their openers were no match for Bumrah. Bumrah got rid of the team's best batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz in his first over. After this, Axar Patel gave the second blow to the Afghan team by dismissing Ibrahim Zadran. Bumrah broke the back of the Afghan team by dismissing Hazratullah Zazai for 2 runs. In the middle overs, Kuldeep Yadav took 2 wickets and ensured Team India's victory. In the end, Bumrah and then Arshdeep Singh took a flurry of wickets. Bumrah took 3 wickets for just 7 runs in the match. Arshdeep gave 36 runs in 4 overs but he also managed to take 3 wickets.