Abhishek Sharma's stormy innings of 108 runs, India made a 3-0 clean sweep by defeating Afghanistan by 127 runs in the third T20I.

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IND vs AFG 3rd T20: The Indian team has defeated Afghanistan by 127 runs in the third and last T20I match. With this, Team India has whitewashed Afghanistan 3-0. The dream of their first T20I win against India remained a dream for Afghanistan this time too. After losing the toss and batting first, Team India scored 220 runs. In response, Afghanistan team was reduced to only 94 runs in 14.1 overs. In this match, Abhishek Sharma played an explosive century inning of 108 runs for India. Whereas Sanju Samson had scored half-centuries. Let us tell you that even though this series was played in India, it was hosted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board.

Half of Afghanistan's team had returned to the pavilion at the score of 70 runs.

Afghanistan has continued its poor batting in the third T20 match also. The way Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran batted in the first 3 overs, it seemed that the team can give competition to India, but after that the team kept losing wickets continuously. Half of the Afghanistan team had returned to the pavilion at the score of only 70 runs in the 9th over. Afghanistan lost its first 4 wickets in the form of Rahmanullah Gurbaz (15), Sediqullah Atal (1), Ibrahim Zadran (25) and Darwish Rasooli (0). After this the team got the fifth blow in the form of Noor Ul Rehman (11).

Nitish Kumar Reddy gave 3 shocks to Afghanistan in a single over.

After this, Nitish Kumar Reddy destroyed the batting order by giving 3 blows to Afghanistan in a single over. First he sent Mohammad Nabi to the pavilion for 8 runs. After this, Umarzai went on to score 17 runs, then made Mujeeb his victim at zero. After this, within no time the entire Afghanistan team was reduced to just 94 runs in 14.1 overs.

Deadly bowling of Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravi Bishnoi and Akshar Patel

On behalf of India, Akshar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi and Nitish Kumar Reddy bowled lethally. Reddy and Bishnoi took maximum 3-3 wickets, while Akshar Patel took 2 wickets. Jasprit Bumrah and Yash Thakur got one success each.

Abhishek Sharma played a century inning of 108 runs

In this match against Afghanistan, after losing the toss and batting first, Team India scored 220 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Abhishek Sharma played a stormy inning of 108 runs in just 34 balls, which included 9 fours and 11 sixes. Sanju Samson scored 50 runs in 34 balls with the help of 2 fours and 4 sixes. Captain Shreyas Iyer played an inning of 29 runs. Apart from this, Shivam Dubey contributed 14 runs and Ishan Kishan contributed 10 runs. For Afghanistan, Azmatullah Omarzai took 2 wickets, while Abdullah Ahmadzai and Rashid Khan got 1 wicket each.

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