Gurbaz's 102 off 51 went in vain as the rest of the Afghanistan batters managed just 80 runs together
Scorer: K Vairavan | Commentator: Ekanth and Ashish
It's been a long day, ten hours since the coverage began. Two T20 World Cup games and one T25 game is done. Hope you were able to follow it. Lots coming up on Sunday as always. See you then, thanks for joining today.
Ashish's match report is up, check it out
Shubman Gill, India captain and POTM: Kind of a T20 game. We started well, they pulled it away from us. Gurbaz was brilliant. The way we bowled in the last half was brilliant. Wicket was brilliant. There was grip for our spinners, ball came off nicely when they bowled. I've practised slip catches a lot. I was telling my fielding coach that I haven't taken any brilliant catch and happy to have taken it. Rohit saw the replay and said it's fine about the run out. Gurnoor's pace, lengths and swing was impressive. Harsh went for 16 first over but kept tossing the ball up, very impressive. Middle overs in one-day games is crucial. If we build pressure and create opportunities with ball, and score at 6 with bat without losing wickets, it's great.
Hashmatullah Shahidi, Afghanistan captain: It was a tough game. Back to back wickets was the reason, I felt if we scored 220-230 that'd be a good target when Gurbaz and I were batting. But then wickets fell and we were 30-40 short. In my mind, I was targeting the left-arm spinner to the short boundary. After Gurbaz fell, we made mistakes. The wicket was a bit flat. We weren't that disciplined with the ball.
10:35pm: Tears of joy Presentation's finally here. The last 26 minutes felt almost as long as the five-hour delay ahead of the start.
No presentation yet cos there's a drone show going on.
Bala: "4-142 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 15.3 ov) 3-142 (Shreyas Iyer, 17.3 ov) "
AVIK BHATTER: "Please give Gurbaz POTM for making this a MATCH ! " Doubt it won't be Rahul but yeah, fair call
10:09pm: Near-clinical chase from India to go 1-0 in a rain-hit game reduced to 25 overs per side. Rohit and Gill got off to a decent start. Kishan scored at well over a run a ball while stitching a 70-run stand will Gill. Shreyas was the only batter who looked scratchy. Rahul was so good Gill couldn't get hundred. Not an issue though. Zia and Saleem looked good. Rashid was the pick of the bowlers. Ghazanfar was economical. Four bowlers going above nine an over though.
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Gurbaz's 102 off 51 went in vain as the rest of the Afghanistan batters managed just 80 runs together
Brar and Dubey shared six wickets on debut to derail Afghanistan's innings after Gurbaz's ton
Rain delayed the toss by more than four hours and reduced the match to 25 overs a side
Afghanistan will lean on their ODI experience in India, who will not have Kohli, Hardik, Siraj and Bumrah
