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India vs Afghanistan Scorecard, 1st T20I, India vs Afghanistan 2024
Result · Jan 11 2024, Thu - 07:00 PM (IST)
AFGHANISTAN158/5
INDIA159/4
India won by 6 wickets
CRR:9.09
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Afghanistan in India 2024 |
| Date: | Jan 11 2024, Thu - 07:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Chandigarh |
| City: | Mohali |
| Venue: | IS Bindra Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | India won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| India Playing XI: | Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar |
| Afghanistan Playing XI: | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran (c), Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman |
- India have won each of their four completed men’s T20Is against Afghanistan, having batted first in each of the last three; however, this is the first time the Men in Blue will host the Afghans at home in the format.
- Afghanistan have won four of their last five men’s T20Is (L1), after losing three in a row prior to that; their sole loss in the five-game stretch was by a 11-run margin (vs United Arab Emirates) on 31 December 2023.
- India have lost just one of their last 16 multigame bilateral men’s T20I series (W13 D2), a 2-3 defeat against West Indies in August 2023; in fact, this will the first such series against Afghanistan for the Men in Blue.
- Afghanistan have won three of their last four multigame bilateral men’s T20I series (L1), including a 2-1 win against United Arab Emirates in their last such series (December 2023 – January 2024); their sole loss in this stretch came by a 0-2 margin against Bangladesh (July 2023).
- No team’s fielders have saved more runs in men’s T20Is since the start of 2023 than India - 68; Afghanistan have managed to save only 13 runs in the same timeframe.
- Afghanistan have maintained a bowling dot ball rate of 56% during the Powerplay phase in men’s T20Is since the start of 2023, the highest of all full-member sides and two percentage points more than India (54%), who are ranked second in the category.
- Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) has scored 77.2% of his runs in men’s T20Is since the start of 2023 via boundaries, the highest such share among full-member side batters to have faced at least 150 deliveries; Jaiswal has scored 332 of his 430 runs in this timeframe via boundaries.
- Batters have played and missed 24% of the deliveries bowled by Afghanistan’s Fazalhaq Farooqi in men’s T20Is since the start of 2023, the highest such rate by any full-member side bowler (min. 10 overs bowled); Avesh Khan (22%) is India’s best bowler in this category during the same timeframe.
- Kuldeep Yadav (India) has logged a bowling average of 13.1 in men’s T20I since the start of 2023, the third best among full-member side spinners (min. 20 overs bowled) behind Pakistan’s Imad Wasim (12.4) and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan (12.8).
- Najibullah Zadran has a batting average of 31.9 in men’s T20Is, the highest by any Afghanistan batter to have featured in more than five innings in the format; in fact, Zadran (93 sixes) is seven sixes away from becoming the first Afghan batter with 100 boundary sixes in men’s T20Is.