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ODI series: After Prasidh’s claws, Yashasvi’s unbeaten century, India completely wiped out Afghanistan.

By Samira Vishwas

Chennai, June 20. Team India also presented an overall performance with bat and ball at the MA Chidambaram Stadium here on Saturday and completely whitewashed the guests 3-0 in their first bilateral ODI series against Afghanistan.

Krishna took 5 kills for the first time in his one day career

Indian supremacy can be easily gauged from the fact that while pacer Prasidh Krishna (5-23) batted for the first time in his ODI career, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal’s bat spoke for the first time in the series. He hit a tremendous century (110 not out, 86 balls, three sixes, 14 fours) and made a huge century partnership with hitman Rohit Sharma (79 runs, 69 balls, three sixes, nine fours). The result was in and the hosts won an easy nine wickets with 128 balls to spare.

Afghanistan reached 218 runs with Hashmatullah’s century

Opting to bat first, Afghanistan got off to a bad start as the ‘Player of the Match’ star took away the first four wickets in a dangerous first spell (5-2-6-4) and the team was in trouble after scoring 36 runs in the 10th over. However, captain Hashmatullah Shahidi took control of the situation with a century (102 runs, 131 balls, one six, 13 fours) and his partnership of 105 runs on 117 balls for the fifth wicket with Azmatullah Omarzai (50 runs, 56 balls, two sixes, five fours) helped the score reach 218 runs in 44.2 overs.

Jaiswal and Rohit scored 170 runs in 139 balls.

Faced with an easy target, Yashasvi and Rohit gained momentum from the beginning. There was a partnership of 170 runs between the two in 139 balls. Mohammad Nabi broke this partnership by returning Rohit in the 23rd over. At present, Yashasvi completed his second ODI century and ensured the team’s victory with an unbroken partnership of 54 runs on 35 balls for the second wicket with Shreyas Iyer (20 not out, 19 balls, two sixes), who scored 224 runs for one wicket in 28.4 overs.

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The highlight of the innings of 24-year-old Jaiswal, who completed his second ODI century with a six, was that he batted at a strike rate of more than 100 throughout. In this sequence, he became the first batsman for India to score two centuries in his first six ODI innings. Before him, Shikhar Dhawan had scored two centuries in his first seven innings.

Captain Shubhman Gill was declared ‘Player of the Series’, scoring 238 runs including a century in two matches. He did not get to bat in the third match.

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