IND vs AFG: Afghanistan blown away by Abhishek Sharma's storm, India defeated by 7 wickets in the first T20I

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IND vs AFG: India has defeated Afghanistan by 7 wickets in the first T20I match. With this, Team India has taken a 1-0 lead in the 3-match T20 series. Batting first after losing the toss at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Afghanistan scored 156 runs. In reply, India achieved the target very easily by losing 3 wickets in just 13.4 overs. Opener Abhishek Sharma played a stormy inning of 82 runs for Team India. While Ishan Kishan scored 42 runs. Whereas for Afghanistan, Mohammad Nabi took 2 wickets. Whereas Azmatullah Umarzai got a success.

India got an early blow in the form of Sanju Samson

Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma started Team India's innings to chase the target of 157 runs given by Afghanistan, but Team India got its first blow early. Azmatullah Umarzai gave the first blow to India by dismissing Sanju in the very third over. Samson scored 10 runs in 8 balls with the help of 2 fours.

Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan made a great partnership

After this, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan took over the innings and batted in such a way that the condition of the Afghan bowlers worsened. Both the batsmen gave a tough class to the bowlers and hit sixes and fours on every second ball. There was a strong partnership of 72 runs for the second wicket between Abhishek and Ishaan. Both the batsmen completed this partnership in just 29 balls.

Abhishek Sharma played a stormy inning of 82 runs.

After this, Mohammad Nabi dismissed Abhishek Sharma, but by then Abhishek had won the match for India. Abhishek Sharma played an explosive inning of 82 runs in just 32 balls. During this period, 7 fours and 7 sixes came from his bat. Ishaan Kishan also supported him well.

Ishan Kishan played an inning of 42 runs

After Abhishek Sharma was out, Ishan Kishan was also out. Although Team India had reached the threshold of victory. Ishaan was dismissed by Mohammad Nabi. Ishaan played an inning of 42 runs in 33 balls, which included 5 fours and a six. Captain Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Verma returned unbeaten after leading Team India to victory, where Iyer scored 8 unbeaten runs and Tilak scored 3 unbeaten runs.

This was how Afghanistan's batting was, Azmatullah Omarzai scored a fifty.

In this first T20 match against India, Afghanistan, batting first after losing the toss, scored 156 runs for 8 wickets. In difficult times for Afghanistan, all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai played the highest innings of 64 unbeaten runs in 44 balls, which included 4 fours and 4 sixes. While Mohammad Nabi contributed 33 runs. Arshdeep Singh had taken 3 wickets from India's side. Apart from this, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh got 1 success each.

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