IND vs AFG: Arshdeep Singh's deadly bowling, Azmatullah Omarzai's fifty, Afghanistan gave India a target of 157 runs.

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IND vs AFG 1st T20I: The first match of the 3-match T20I series between India and Afghanistan is being played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. Indian captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. After which, batting first, Afghanistan scored 156 runs for 8 wickets. That means Team India will now have to score 157 runs to win. Azmatullah Omarzai played the highest innings of 64 unbeaten runs for Afghanistan. While Mohammad Nabi contributed 33 runs. Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets for India. Apart from this, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh got 1 success each.

Jasprit Bumrah gave initial blow to Afghanistan

In this match against India, after losing the toss and coming to bat first, Afghanistan's innings was started by captain Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmanullah Gurbaz, but both could not give a good start to the team. Jasprit Bumrah gave the first blow to Afghanistan on the very second ball of the first over of the innings. He dismissed opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz on the very second ball. Afghanistan has scored 18 runs for one wicket in 2 overs.

Half of Afghanistan's team had returned to the pavilion on the score of 43 runs.

After this, half of the Afghanistan team returned to the pavilion at the score of 43 runs by the 7th over. Afghanistan suffered a second blow in the form of captain Ibrahim Zadran, who was run out after scoring 11 runs. After this, Arshdeep Singh gave the third blow to Pakistan by dismissing Sediqullah Atal. Sediqullah Atal scored 13 runs on 13 balls. After this, in the next over, Akshar Patel showed Gulbadin Naib the way to the pavilion on the score of 2 runs. Then Varun Chakraborty made Darvish Rasooli his victim, Darvish Rasooli walked away after scoring 2 runs.

83 run partnership between Umarzai and Nabi

After this, Azmatullah Umarzai and Mohammad Nabi took over Afghanistan's faltering innings and made a partnership of 83 runs for the sixth wicket, but then Arshdeep Singh broke that flourishing partnership by dismissing Nabi. Nabi was out after scoring 33 runs on 27 balls, then Rashid Khan was dismissed by Arshdeep Singh on the personal score of 1 run. After this Noor Ahmed was run out without opening the account.

Azmatullah Umarzai played a stormy inning of 64 runs.

Whereas Azmatullah Umarzai stayed till the end and took the team to a score worth fighting for. Azmatullah Omarzai played an unbeaten inning of 64 runs in 44 balls, which included 4 fours and 4 sixes. Whereas Mujeeb ur Rahman scored 9 unbeaten runs.

This is the playing 11 of India and Afghanistan

India's playing 11: Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Tilak Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakraborty.

Afghanistan's playing 11: Ibrahim Zadran (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Noor Ahmed, Fazalhaq Farooqui.

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