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Tri-series: Afghanistan A upset, India A defeated by DLS system despite huge score

By Samira Vishwas

Dambulla, June 11. Despite the heroics of the batsmen led by opener Prabhasimran Singh (84 runs, 69 balls, 14 fours), India A suffered an upset in the second match of the triangular ODI series here, when Afghanistan A won by four runs on the basis of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLC) system in a rain-interrupted match.

India A had reached 349 runs with the fifties of Prabhasimran, Tilak and Rituraj.

Opting to bat first at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, India A scored half-centuries from Prabhasimran, captain Tilak Verma (66 runs, 73 balls, five fours) and vice-captain Rituraj Gaikwad (66 runs, 80 balls, three fours), along with teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi (44 runs, 22 balls, nine fours) and Suryansh Shedge (40 runs, 27 balls, two fours). With aggressive hits (sixes, two fours) a huge score of 349 runs was scored for nine wickets in 49 overs. Due to light drizzle during the Indian innings, the match was reduced to 49 overs per team.

When the game was stopped for the last time due to rain, Afghanistan was 4 runs ahead of the target.

The interference of rain became more serious after the Indian innings. In this sequence, after repeated rain interrupted play, Afghanistan A got a revised target of 294 runs in 38 overs. After that the team’s score reached 177 runs for two wickets in 25.5 overs, when it started raining again. At that time Afghanistan was four runs ahead of the target based on the DLS system. On this basis he was declared the winner.

Afghanistan A gave a strong reply with the century partnership of Imran-Bahir

If we look at Afghanistan A’s innings, ‘Player of the Match’ captain Imran (75 not out, 70 balls, 2 sixes, 6 fours) and Hasan Isaakhil (34 runs, 29 balls, 6 fours) gave an aggressive start by adding 63 runs. After this, Arshad Khan (1-38) and Anukul Roy (1-24) took two wickets within six runs. But Bahir Shah (51 not out, 52 balls, five fours) and Imran together made an unbroken century partnership of 108 runs for the third wicket. At the moment the score was 177, rain threatened again and the game could not start.

Four partnerships of 70+ in Indian innings

Before this, four big partnerships of 70 plus were seen in the Indian innings. Vaibhav and Prabhasimran, who scored 44 runs at a strike rate of 200, added 74 runs in 43 balls, while Gaikwad and Prabhasimran, who scored a century against Sri Lanka A in the last match, made a partnership of 79 runs for the third wicket.

score card

Then came Tilak’s turn, who scored the second consecutive fifty and made a partnership of 78 runs with Gaikwad for the fourth wicket. In the end, Tilak and Suryansh Shedge added 70 runs for the sixth wicket and took India beyond 325. For Afghanistan A, pacer Abdullah Ahmadzai took five wickets for 68 runs while Farmanullah took three wickets for 85 runs.

India A and Sri Lanka A face to face again on June 15

India A’s next match will be against Sri Lanka A on June 15. In the first meeting between the two teams, India A won by eight runs. The Afghan team will play Sri Lanka A on June 13.

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