It was the second match of team India in the World Cup 2023 tournament and team India registered a comfortable victory over Afghanistan. Team India showcased an amazing performance with both bat as well as bowl. The captain Rohit Sharma presented an incredible innings on the ground and he smashed a sensational century which is the fastest century in the World Cup tournament, and Rohit Sharma beat the record of Kapil Dev. So without making any further delay let’s get into the article to check out the full details of the match between India versus Afghanistan.
Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bad first. The bowling unit of team India tightened the innings of Afghanistan and Jasprit Bumrah showcased an incredible performance with bowl. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was dismissed by Hardik Pandya and he went back to the pavilion after scoring 21 and his partner Ibrahim Zadran was dismissed by Bumrah for 22.
Rahmat Shah added 16 to the total and he was dismissed by Thakur while the captain of Afghanistan Hashmatullah Shahidi smashed 80 and he was dismissed by Kuldeep Yadav and Azmatullah Omarzai was the second target of Pandya and he dismissed for 62.
Mohammad Nabi and Najibullah Zadran both dismissed by Bumrah for 19 as well as 2 respectively. Rashid Khan added 16 to the total and he was dismissed by Bumrah. Afghanistan finished their innings at 272 with the loss of 8 wickets. The innings of the captain of the team helped the team to score a decent total.
In the reply, the captain Rohit Sharma came out with the attacking attitude and he smashed 131 runs from just 84 deliveries. The century was 7th in the world cup tournament and he beat Sachin Tendulkar who had six centuries in this special tournament.
Rohit Sharma smashed century in the history of this tournament as well and he broken the record of Kapil Dev as well. Rohit Sharma was actually playing alone and making Ishan Kishan a viewer in the majority of the time. Kishan added 47 in his account before he was dismissed by Rashid Khan.
Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer smashed 55 as well as 28 respectively. India finished the game with Keeping 8 wickets in the hand.
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