Thanks to Rohit Sharma's century, India achieved the target of 273 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.
Worst defeat to Afghanistan, India won the second consecutive victory in the World Cup, thanks to Rohit Sharma's century, India achieved the target of 273 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. In the ninth match of the World Cup, Afghanistan set India a target of 273 runs to win. In the match played at the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in Delhi, the Afghan openers once again failed to give the team a good start. Shardal Thakur returned the pavilion for 16 runs.
Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Azmat Umarzai formed a partnership of 121 runs for the fourth wicket, Azmat Umarzai was dismissed with 62 runs.
Captain Hamshtullah returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 80 runs with the help of 8 fours and a six, Muhammad Nabi was out after scoring 19 runs. Mohammad Nabi scored 19, Rashid Khan 16, Mujeebur Rehman 10 and Naveen ul Haq scored 9 runs, so Afghanistan scored 272 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs.
For India, Bumrah took 4 wickets, Hardik Pandya took 2 wickets and Kuldeep Yadav and Thakur took one wicket each. Earlier, Afghan team captain Hashmatullah Shahidi won the toss and decided to bat first. On this occasion, Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that he will try to play an aggressive game against Afghanistan. The important match is that he wants to enter the field against Pakistan with a win.
On the other hand, no changes have been made in the Afghan team, while India has replaced Ashwin with Shardal Thakur as part of the playing XI. The Afghanistan squad consists of Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi, Rehmanullah Garbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Najeebullah Zadran, Muhammad Nabi, Azmatullah Umarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeebur Rahman, Naveen Haq and Fazal Haq Farooqui while the Indian squad captain Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shires Iyer, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardal Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj.