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India vs Afghanistan Scorecard, 2nd T20I, India vs Afghanistan 2024
Result · Jan 14 2024, Sun - 07:00 PM (IST)
AFGHANISTAN172
INDIA173/4
India won by 6 wickets
CRR:11.04
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Afghanistan in India 2024 |
| Date: | Jan 14 2024, Sun - 07:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Indore |
| Venue: | Holkar Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | India won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| India Playing XI: | Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, 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), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad |
- India has 100% win record against Afghanistan in completed men’s T20Is (W5), one of only two full member sides against whom the Men in Blues are unbeaten in the format (Ireland – P7 W7).
- Afghanistan have lost all five of their completed men’s T20Is against India, the joint second-most number of defeats against any opponent in the format (also Bangladesh); in fact, only Ireland (6) have beaten Afghanistan more times in the format than the Men in Blues.
- India have won seven of their last eight men’s T20Is played in India, including each of their last three on the bounce; indeed, their only loss in this run came against Australia on 28 November 2023.
- This will be fourth men’s T20Is at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore; India has won two and lost one of their previous three games in the format at this venue, with the loss coming in their most recent such encounter against South Africa by a margin of 49 runs on 4 October 2022.
- India have recorded a dot ball percentage of 35.6% in men’s T20Is since the start of 2023, the second lowest such share in the format among full member sides (33.7% - South Africa); Afghanistan have recorded a dot ball percentage of 47.9% in the format in the same period, the highest such share among full member nations.
- Afghanistan have a bowling strike rate of 16.7 in the men’s T20Is since the start of 2023, the best such rate of any full member side in the format in this period; India are ranked second with a bowling strike rate of 17.
- Mohammad Nabi (98) is two sixes away from becoming the first Afghanistan player and 17th player overall to hit 100 sixes in men’s T20Is.
- Virat Kohli is the only player to have scored a century against Afghanistan in men’s T20Is (122* on 8 September 2022); in fact, Kohli’s 172 T20I runs against them is the highest for any Indian player against Afghanistan.
- Ibrahim Zadran has hit a boundary once every 11.2 balls on average in men’s T20Is since the start of 2023, the most balls faced per boundary hit on average for any player in that time in the format (min. 100 balls faced).
- Shivam Dube has recorded a good connection rate of 76% in the men’s T20Is since the start of 2023, the second best such rate of any player from the full member sides in the format after Glenn Phillips (77%) (minimum 50 balls faced).