Delhi: In the third T20 match being played at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Thursday, the Indian team, after losing the toss and batting first, scored 221 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. The real hero of this innings of India was the opening batsman Abhishek Sharma, who scored a quick century while taking the Afghan bowlers seriously.

At the same time, Sanju Samson scored his second consecutive half-century. Afghanistan has to score 222 runs to win.

Abhishek and Sanju created havoc in powerplay

Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson, who came to open the Indian innings, adopted an aggressive stance from the beginning. Together they added 100 runs in 6 overs of powerplay without losing any wicket.

Abhishek played a brilliant inning of 108 runs in just 34 balls with the help of 9 fours and 11 skyscraper sixes.

From the other end, Sanju Samson also batted brilliantly and scored 50 runs in 35 balls, which included 2 fours and 4 sixes. There was an excellent partnership of 142 runs in 59 balls between the two for the first wicket.

The pace slowed down as soon as Abhishek was out

The pace of the Indian innings slowed down a bit after Abhishek was out in the 10th over with a total score of 142. After this, Tilak Verma was run out after scoring just 2 runs, while Sanju Samson also became the victim of Azmatullah Omarzai soon after completing his half-century.

Shreyas Iyer took over the innings

In the middle order, captain Shreyas Iyer played a useful inning of 29 runs in 20 balls. He hit 2 sixes in his innings. Apart from this, Shivam Dubey scored 14 runs in 10 balls and Ishan Kishan scored 10 runs in 8 balls.

In the lower order, Nitish Kumar Reddy was out after scoring only 1 run.

Akshar Patel returned unbeaten on 5 runs and Ravi Bishnoi returned unbeaten without opening the account. India finally scored a big score of 221 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Omarzai was Afghanistan's most successful bowler

Azmatullah Omarzai was the most successful bowler from Afghanistan. He took 2 wickets for 27 runs in 3 overs. Rashid Khan took 1 wicket for 43 runs in 4 overs, while Abdullah Ahmadzai also got a success.

At the same time, the bowling day was not good for Mohammad Nabi.

He spent 29 runs in his only over. Mujeeb-ur-Rehman and Fazalhaq Farooqui did not get any wicket. Now Afghanistan has to achieve the target of 222 runs in front of India.