India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Axar Patel awarded Man of the Match

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Axar Patel, who was adjudged the Player of the Match for his two wickets for 17 in four overs, said he tried to vary his length and bowled a bit slower.

“Feels good, I just realised that I have got 200 T20 wickets. But what is important to keep doing well for India, honestly a few years later I won’t remember how many wickets I took,” he said.

“I have been trying to bowl a bit slower, vary my lengths and now I have been to gauge these things better. Now I have the confidence to bowl at all times, even in the powerplay.

“You need to be mentally prepared as a bowler in T20 cricket. Ready to concede a six because that same ball could get you a wicket on another day.

“Earlier, I used to vary my plans if a batter was hitting me, but now I stick to my plans and make the batters take the chance against me.”

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma heaps praise on batters Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shivam Dube

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: “It is a great feeling, it has been a long journey starting way back in 2007. I’ve cherished every moment I have spent here. We have been clear with what we wanted to do, very clear message to everyone and when you see a performance like that, you can be really proud. One thing is talking about it, but to actually go there and play that way is a proud feeling. In the last two games, we’ve ticked a lot of boxes,” Rohit Sharma said in a post-match presentation.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: How India scored

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: How India scored

Powerplay (1-6 Overs):-

India- 69/2 (11.5 rpo, 9×4, 3×6)

Middle overs (7-15 Overs):-

India- 102/2 (11.3 rpo, 7×4, 7×6)

Death overs (16-20 Overs):-

India- 2/0 (3.0 rpo, 0x4, 0x6)

India vs Afghanistan Live Score:  India win by six wickets

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Fazalhaq Farooqi bowls his fourth over and India win by six wickets with 26 balls to spare. Axar Patel,  Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shivam Dube played crucial part in India’s win.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 171/4- 15 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Karim Janat bowls his second over and Rinku Singh hits him for a boundary over the deep mid-wicket region. Seven runs came in this over.

Rinku Singh 8

Shivam Dube 63

Karim Janat 2-0-13-2

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 156/4- 13 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Karim Janat comes to bowl his first over and Shivam Dube continues to pile misery on Afghan bowlers as he hits him for a boundary with a drive. Yashasvi Jaiswal was caught by Gurbaz behind the stumps and he departs at 68 runs. Jitesh Sharma comes in middle and goes without scoring. Two wickets for Karim Janat. Seven runs came in this over.

Jitesh Sharma 0

Shivam Dube 56

Karim Janat 1-0-6-2

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 149/2- 12 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Naveen-ul-Haq bowls his third over and this time Shivam Dube hits him for three boundaries. Fifty for Shivam Dube, his second in this series. 15 runs came in this over

Shivam Dube 50

Yashasvi Jaiswal 68

Naveen-ul-Haq 3-0-33-1

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 134/2- 11 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Noor Ahmad bowls his third over and Yashasvi Jaiswal continues to play his brilliant strokes across the ground. In this over he hits a SIX with a sweep shot after he hits a boundary in the long on region. He ends the over with another SIX playing a sweep shot. 18 runs came in this over.

Yashasvi Jaiswal 68

Shivam Dube 35

Noor Ahmad 3-0-35-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 116/2- 10 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Mohammad Nabi bowls his second over and Yashasvi Jaiswal reaches his T20 international fifty.  Shivam Dube in a ruthless mood as he hit Nabi for three SIXES.  The first one was a lofted on drive, the second one a slog sweep and the third one a lofted on drive. 21 runs came in this over. Shivam Dube’s strike is more than 200 at the moment.

Yashasvi Jaiswal 51

Shivam Dube 34

Mohammad Nabi 2-0-30-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 95/2- 9 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score:  Noor Ahmad bowls his second over and Shivam Dube now joins the party as he hits his first SIX down the ground with a lofted off drive shot.11 runs came in this over.

Shivam Dube 15

Noor Ahmad 2-0-17-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 84/2- 8 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Mohammad Nabi  bowls his first over and Yashasvi Jaiswal who was quick on his feet hits a SIX  with a aggressive lofted straight drive. Jaiswal striking at more than 200 at the moment. Couple of dot balls to end the over. Nine runs came in this over.

Yashasvi Jaiswal 47

Shivam Dube 7

Mohammad Nabi 1-0-9-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 75/2- 7 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Noor Ahmad bowls his first over. A decent over by him. Just six runs came in this over.

Shivam Dube 5

Yashasvi Jaiswal 40

Noor Ahmad 1-0-6-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 69/2- 6 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Naveen-ul-Haq  comes to bowl his second over and gets the wicket of Virat Kohli who was caught by Ibrahim Zadran at mid-off. Meanwhile Yashasvi Jaiswal hits a SIX with a lofted  off drive for maximum. 11 runs came in this over and India lost the wicket of Virat Kohli. Shivam Dube comes in the middle.

Yashasvi Jaiswal 39

Shivam Dube 1

Naveen-ul-Haq 2-0-18-1

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 58/1- 5 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Mujeeb Ur Rahman bowls his second over and Virat Kohli hits him for a boundary of the first ball through a brilliant cover drive. Yashasvi Jaiswal joins the party and also hits a boundary with an exquisite cover drive and folllowing it up with another boundary this time with a cut shot. Mujeeb under pressure. Jaiswal makes it 3 as he hits another boundary with a lofted off drive for four runs. 19 runs came in this over.

Yashasvi Jaiswal 33

Virat Kohli 25

Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2-0-32-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 39/1- 4 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Naveen-ul-Haq bowls his first over and Virat Kohli hits a boundary with a lofted straight shot on the front foot. Seven runs came in this over.

Yashasvi Jaiswal 21

Virat Kohli 18

Naveen-ul-Haq 1-0-7-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 32/1- 3 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Fazalhaq Farooqi bowls his second over and Yashasvi Jaiswal looks to attack him as he hits him for a couple of SIXES.  The first one was a lofted on drive and the second one which went further was hit in the deep mid-wicket region.

Virat Kohli12

Yashasvi Jaiswal 20

Fazalhaq Farooqi 2-0-19-1

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 18/1- 2 Overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Mujeeb Ur Rahman bowls the second over as Virat Kohli hits him for a boundary with a brilliant cover drive. A second boundary hit by Viirat Kohli with a slog sweep hit. 13 runs came in this over.

Virat Kohli 11

Yashasvi Jaiswal 7

Mujeeb Ur Rahman 1-0-13-0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: IND 5/1- 1 Over, Rohit departs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma open India’s innings. Fazalhaq Farooqi bowls th efirst over for Afghanistan. Yashasvi Jaiswal hits a boundary in the first delivery by playing an exquisite square drive. Farooqi strikes as he clean-bowled Rohit Sharma for duck, his second in the series. A wicket and five runs came in this over. Virat Kohli comes in the middle to join Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Virat Kohli 0

Yashasvi Jaiswal 5

Fazalhaq Farooqi 1-0-5-1

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: India need 173 runs to seal T20 series 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: The final over was eventful as Afghanistan lost 4 wickets and the team is all out on the score of 172 runs. Pacer Arshdeep Singh clinched 3 wickets while spinner Axar Patel and Ravi Bishnoi clinched two wickets each to provide Team India with some important breakthrough.  

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: AFG scores 164/6 in 19 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Expensive over by Shivam Dube as Rohit Sharma took some risk to give a death over to young bowler. Afghanistan is catching up with a high score and the team is hoping to cross in the final over of the innings.

Afghanistan

Karim Janat 20

Mujeeb Ur Rahman 16

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Arshdeep Singh grabs Najibullah Zadran’s wicket

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Indian skipper Rohit Sharma introduced back the pacers and Arshdeep Singh clinched wicket on the first ball as he dimissed Najibullah Zadran, who slammed back-to-back boundaries in the last over of Ravi Bishnoi. Afghanistan is moving to the tail-end batters now and their score is no way near satisfactory. 

Afghanistan scores 134/6 in 17.3 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: AFG scores 134/5 in 17 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Great thing about Afghanistan cricket team is that despite losing wickets regularly, the team is not changing its intent and continue to slam boundaries to boost the run rate of the team. Ravi Bishnoi’s use of pace is providing batters with some extra leverage to score big shots.

Afghanistan 

Najibullah Zadran 23

Karim Janat 7

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Ravi Bishnoi strikes again; Mohammad Nabi OUT

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Spinner Ravi Bishnoi clinched 2nd wicket today as he dismissed experienced Afghanistan batter Mohammad Nabi. The batter was under pressure as runs were not coming, and tried a big shot across the long on, but Rinku Singh was standing just below the ball. 

Afghanistan scores 105/5 in 14.3 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Axar Patel completes 200 wickets in T20 cricket 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: India’s spinner Axar Patel completed his 200 wickets with 2 wickets coming from today’s macth. The player has turned out to be a reliable option for team India is going to be crucial during T20 World Cup in June this year. 

Afghanistan scores 103/4 in 14 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Wicket!!! Gulbadin Naib OUT

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Axar Patel striked again and this time he caught the big fish as explosive batter Gulbadin Naib is walking back to the pavilion after slamming a stunning half-century. Najibullah Zadran is the new batter on crease and Afghanistan needs to re-build a partnership from here 

Afghanistan scores 92/4 in 11.5 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Gulbadin Naib slams 50

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Gulbadin Naib slammed his half-century in just 28 balls and batter is hitting some amazing boundaries against dangerous Indian bowlers. India needs his wicket soon if they want to restrict the team on a low score. 

Afghanistan score 81/3 in 10 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Gulbadin Naib continues to slam boundaries 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: What a stunning SIX from Gulbadin Naib and he continues to go for boundaries even as Afghanistan continues to lose wickets. Virat Kohli attempted a difficult catch against Gulbadin, but unfortunately dropped it and the run machine continues. 

Afghanistan

Gulbadin Naib 48

Mohammad Nabi 2

AFG scores 77/3 in 9 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Wicket!!! Azmatullah Omarzai OUT

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: After delivering a stunning performance in the 1st T20, Shivam Dube continues to dominate in Indore as he dismissed Afghanistan all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai in a brutal runout. Afghanistan batters are slamming frequent boundaries but continue to lose wickets. 

Afghanistan scores 60/3 in 7 overs. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Wicket!!! Ibrahim Zadran OUT

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Smart bowling by spinner Axar Patel, who confused Ibrahim Zadran and dismissed the Afghanistan skipper and provided Team India with second wicket today. Gulbadin Naib continues to dominate and the game is changing with every bowl. 

Afghanistan scores 58/2 in 6 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Gulbadin Naib dominates 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Afghanistan’s Gulbadin Naib is dominating Indian bowlers as he slammed back-to-back three boundaries against spinner Ravi Bishnoi. Afghanistan batters are capitalizing on the batting conditions and looking to create a high score against India. 

Afghanistan

Ibrahim Zadran 7

Gulbadin Naib 26

AFG scores 50/1 in 5 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: AFG scores 32/1 in 4 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Gulbadin Naib is looking like he came to the ground already settled as he slammed two beautiful boundaries against pacer Mukesh Kumar. The Indian seamer understood the batter and changed his line in the over to restrict the batter. 

Afghanistan

Ibrahim Zadran 6

Gulbadin Naib 10

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Wicket!!! Rahmanullah Gurbaz OUT

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Spinner Ravi Bishnoi was wicketless in the first T20 against Afghanistan, but clinched a wicket on his second ball this time as he dismissed Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who was looking dangerous today. 

Afghanistan scores 20/1 in 2.3 overs. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Gurbaz’s stunning SIX against Mukesh 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Pacer Mukesh Kumar is continuing the attack from the other end and Rahmanullah Gurbaz seems fearless as he slammed a massive SIX against the pacer. Mukesh Kumar made a strong comeback as he restricted the batters for next 3 balls. India lost its first DRS in the second over as Mukesh Kumar unsuccessfully appealed against Ibrahim Zadran. 

Afghanistan

Rahmanullah Gurbaz 

Ibrahim Zadran 

Afghanistan scores 20/0 in 2 overs

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: AFG scores 9/0 in 1 overs 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Pacer Arshdeep Singh begins with 2 wide balls and Rahmanullah Gurbaz strikes a beautiful FOUR on the first legal ball of the match. Arshdeep Singh recovered back with better line and length, but Rahmanullah Gurbaz cleared his intentions to go big against India. 

Afghanistan 

Rahmanullah Gurbaz 7

Ibrahim Zadran 0

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Afghanistan openers on crease 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran are on the crease and pacer Arshdeep Singh is leading India’s bowling attack. The Indian pacers will look to clinch some early wickets to increase pressure on Afghanistan. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Afghanistan playing XI

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: India’s final playing XI

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma(w), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Changes in squad 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: As expected Virat Kohli is making a comeback in the Indian squad and is expected to replace Tilak Varma on number 3. Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal will also play today in the place of Shubman Gill, who opened with Rohit Sharma in the first T20. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: India to bowl first 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bowl first, which was a expected decision as dew factor plays a role on the grounds of Indore. Rohit Sharma said there is no specific reason for choosing to bowl first and he wants to restrict Afghanistan on a low score. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Toss soon 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: The toss is just minutes away and Rohit Sharma, Ibrahim Zadran are expected to enter the grounds soon. The dew factor will play a major role in today’s match and India will to chase if Rohit Sharma wins the toss. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: All eyes on Virat Kohli 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: The toss is just 15 minutes away and Virat Kohli can be seen warming up on the ground. India’s former batter Suresh Raina believes that when it comes to understanding of cricket, Virat Kohli is the best player in the world. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Weather in Indore 

 India vs Afghanistan Live Score: There is no chances of rainfall in Indore during the match hours and the  temperature is expected to remain approximately at 22 degrees Celsius during the entirety of the match, possibly dropping to 17 degrees by the end of the game.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Toss at 6:30

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: The toss for the second T20 between India and Afghanistan is less than an hour away. India’s star batter Virat Kohli is making a comeback in the T20 format of cricket after 14 months and is expected to begin it on an explosive note. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: India’s expected playing XI

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Mukesh Kumar, Arshdeep Singh.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Pitch report from Indore 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Holkar Cricket Stadium’s pitch is known to favour the batters and is considered to be a paradise for them. The boundaries being shorter and the flat pitches help batters to score more. So the team winning the toss should bat first.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Head-to-head

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Before this T20I match, both India and Afghanistan faced each other three times in the T20 World Cups once in the Asia Cup, and once in the previous bilateral series. India have won all five matches.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Yuvraj Singh praises Rohit Sharma ahead of the second T20

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: “I can say Rohit has been a great captain he’s got five IPL trophies, he took us to the (World Cup) final. He has been one of our great captains of IPL and India. We have to manage his workload,” Yuvraj said. “I don’t know what’s the situation with Hardik’s fitness at the moment. That is selectors’ call.”

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: The Ashwin factor 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Ravichandran Ashwin has been one of the most loved spinners in the Indian cricket team. Apart from his stunning tricks with the ball, the spinner is known for his presence of mind on the field, which helped Team India win several matches. While the player continues to do great in the Test format of the game, he is not getting many chances in the T20 and ODI formats of cricket. Former Indian star Yuvraj Singh shared some strong views on Ravichandran Ashwin and said the spinner doesn’t deserve a place in white-ball format. 

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Key things to look forward to

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: The Indian selectors have gone for the status quo rather than addressing the elephant in the room by picking Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for their first T20 series in 14 months against Afghanistan which starts from 11 January

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: Former India player speaks on Virat Kohli’s return

India vs Afghanistan Live Score: “If you see the entire World Cup, Virat Kohli has a playing style and he scores a lot of runs when he follows that template. Even in T20s, he rarely starts hitting fours and sixes from the first ball. He takes his time. If he has to run at a strike rate of 150, he does that in the powerplay,” former player Akash Chopra on Virat Kohli’s return. 

“In New York or the West Indies, the pitches will be such that there will be more chances of runs getting scored in the first six overs. So ideally, you want Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to be together from the start. If you have to follow that template, start it now,” he added.