Jaiswal and Dube go full-throttle as India seal series win
Jaiswal had kicked off India's chase by cutting Farooqi to the point boundary. In the seamer's next over, he hit a straight six before offering a return chance. Farooqi failed to hold onto it and then watched the next ball sailing over deep square leg for six more. Jaiswal was equally severe on Mujeeb, hitting him for a hat-trick of fours in the fifth over. At the end of the powerplay, India had raced to 69 for 2.
In the wake of being sent in, Afghanistan rode on Gulbadin Naib's 57 off 35 balls before India applied the brakes. Yet, a late attack from Karim Janat and Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who scored a joined 41 off 19, lifted the guests to 172.
During the pursuit, Fazalhaq Farooqi bowled Rohit Sharma for a first-ball duck. Rohit was out without scoring in the principal T20I too, where he was run out off his subsequent ball. Virat Kohli, playing his most memorable T20I since the 2022 T20 World Cup, likewise hoped to go after immediately. He was significantly more effective than his chief, scoring 29 off 16.
The stars of the match, however, were Jaiswal and Dube. The two appeared to be going up against one another with the Afghanistan bowlers looking coincidental. Jaiswal arrived at his fifty off 27 balls and Dube off only 22 as both attempted to send each conceivable ball to the limit. Therefore, India pursued down their objective in 15.4 overs.
Naib drives Afghanistan's charge
Rahmanullah Gurbaz gave Afghanistan a speedy beginning, raising a ruckus around town lawful conveyance of the first over for a four and the first of the second for a six. Be that as it may, his visit was fleeting as he tumbled to Ravi Bishnoi for 14 off nine.
No. 3 Naib guaranteed Afghanistan didn't lose their force. He hit consecutive fours off Mukesh Kumar prior to fixing it with 6, 4, 4 off Bishnoi in the following over. He finished the powerplay with one more limit, taking Afghanistan to 58 for 2 after six.
At the opposite end, Shivam Dube fortified Azmatullah Omarzai with a back-of-the-hand more slow ball. However, Naib started to appreciate him, stirring things up around town pacer for two sixes in his next finished, the 10th. Between those two hits, he had a cut of karma too, while Kohli, charging in from long-on, shelled a troublesome slim likelihood. Naib was on 41 then, at that point. He raised his fifty presently a while later, off only 28 balls.
Axar applies the brakes
Axar Patel has looked an undeniably more complete bowler since his return from the quadriceps strain that had governed him out of the 2023 ODI World Cup. During the constrained break, he chipped away at dialing back his speed and is presently receiving the benefits.
Presented in the 6th over, he turned one past Ibrahim Zadran's external edge to raise a ruckus around town stump. Then, in the twelfth, he bowled one from well behind the popping wrinkle, in this way changing the length without an adjustment of activity, to have Naib gotten at short midwicket. Bowling his four overs in a solitary spell, Axar got done with 2 for 17. Naib's wicket put the brakes on the scoring rate - Afghanistan oversaw only 27 out of five overs, from 12 to 16.
Afghanistan finish unequivocally
Najibullah Zadran was on 6 off 15 preceding he stalled out into Bishnoi. In the seventeenth over, he hit the legspinner for two sixes and a four. At the point when he withdrew, Janat and Mujeeb dominated and crushed Dube for 20 in the penultimate over of the innings. In spite of Arshdeep Singh offering just eight in the last finished, which included four wickets (counting two by means of run-outs), Afghanistan scored 55 in the last four.
Rohit-Kohli observe
Rohit was run out in the primary T20I when Shubman Gill didn't answer his require a speedy single. This evening, in his 150th T20I, his initial excusal owed less to setback. Confronting his most memorable ball, he moved towards the leg side trying to pull Farooqi. He missed and Farooqi hit the highest point of off stump.
Kohli, who had missed the main game for individual reasons, opened his record by crushing Mujeeb over additional cover. In the equivalent over, he cleared a comparative conveyance to the profound midwicket wall. Altogether, he hit five fours out of 16 balls. At the point when he was gotten at mid off Naveen-ul-Haq, the group was frustrated, yet this could have been the very approach the group the board maintained that him should embrace.
Jaiswal had started off India's pursuit by slicing Farooqi to the point limit. In the seamer's next finished, he hit a straight six preceding contribution a bring opportunity back. Farooqi neglected to clutch it and afterward watched the following ball cruising over profound square leg for six more. Jaiswal was similarly serious on Mujeeb, hitting him for a full go-around of fours in the fifth over. Toward the finish of the powerplay, India had dashed to 69 for 2.
Dube found opportunity to get rolling. He was on a run-a-ball 7 yet soon he was dominating Jaiswal. It began with him sending off Noor Ahmad over lengthy off before he bludgeoned Mohammad Nabi for three progressive sixes. After ten overs, India's expected rate had boiled down to 5.70.
Jaiswal and Dube added 92 in only seven overs. When Jaiswal was out for 68 off 34, India required just 19 off 45 balls. Jitesh Sharma succumbed to a second-ball duck before Dube, 63 not out off 32, and Rinku Singh took India over the line.
India 173 for 4 (Jaiswal 68, Dube 63*, Janat 2-13) beat Afghanistan 172 (Naib 57, Arshdeep 3-32, Axar 2-17, Bishnoi 2-39) by six wickets