India beat Afghanistan by 47 runs in Super-8, Bumrah bowled brilliantly after Surya's batting

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Tezzbuzz|21-06-2024

Lucknow: The Super-8 match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 was played between India and Afghanistan at Kingston Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. In this match, Team India won by 47 runs and with this they have continued their winning campaign in the World Cup. Let us tell you that in this match, Team India won the toss and decided to bat first and their start was not good. In this match, captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who came as openers for India, started slowly.

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Rohit could not perform well in this match and was out after scoring just 8 runs off 13 balls. After this, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya took charge of the team and took India to a respectable score. In this match, the Men in Blue batted first and scored 181 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. In response, the Afghan team was all out for 134 runs and India won this match by 47 runs.

India was in trouble at one point while batting first but after this, star batsman Suryakumar Yadav batted brilliantly and scored 53 runs facing 28 balls. During this, 5 fours and 3 sixes came off his bat. The result of Surya's innings was that Team India was able to reach 181 runs. Apart from him, Hardik also played an important role with the bat and scored 32 runs off 24 balls. For the Afghan team, fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqui bowled brilliantly in this match and took 3 wickets.

It was not going to be easy at all for the Afghan team chasing the target of 182 runs. In such a situation, their start was not good and fast bowler Jaspreet Bumrah gave the first blow by dismissing the Afghan team's opening batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz. In this match, Bumrah bowled brilliantly and took 3 wickets for just 7 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Arshdeep Singh also sent 3 batsmen to the pavilion while spending 36 runs during the bowling of 4 overs.

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