The primary ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024 Tremendous 8 stage match of Group 1 noticed the conflict between the Rohit Sharma-led India Nationwide Cricket Workforce and Rashid Khan-led Afghanistan Nationwide Cricket Workforce on the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown in Barbados on Thursday, June 20.
The Indian workforce delivered a fantastic efficiency within the match to register a complete 47-run victory. With the bat Suryakumar Yadav (53) and Hardik Pandya (32) shined and helped the aspect publish 181/8 on the board. When it got here to defending the whole, Jasprit Bumrah (3), Arshdeep Singh (3), Kuldeep Yadav (2), Axar Patel (1) and Ravindra Jadeja (1) did an excellent job and bowled out the opposition workforce for 134 runs.
Talking after the match, Rohit Sharma highlighted that the Indian workforce performed fairly just a few matches within the Caribbean in the previous few years which has helped them to arrange effectively. He said:
“The final two years, we now have come right here and performed some T20 video games. We deliberate somewhat effectively. We tailored effectively to the circumstances that had been supplied. We knew the category of our bowling lineup would defend this.”
Rohit Sharma lauded his teammates subsequent, saying that everybody is doing an excellent job and he additionally gave a particular shoutout to Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. He said:
“Everybody coming in and doing their job. That’s one thing we hold speaking about. Surya and Hardik’s partnership was an excellent one in the long run.”
Whereas speaking about Jasprit Bumrah, the Indian captain mentioned that they should use the pacer neatly as he’s a game-changer. Rohit Sharma mentioned:
“We all know what Bumrah can do for us. It can be crucial for us to make use of him neatly. He’s the one who is able to take the accountability aWhereverhereever he performs, he’s all the time able to take the accountability. I acquired to evaluate the circumstances. Trying on the opposition we’re able to make any adjustments. We thought three spinners can be good, we went for that. Going ahead if wanted, I’m open to enjoying three seamers.”
India vs Afghanistan Head-to-head Report
India Nationwide Cricket Workforce have been a workforce which have all the time dominated the Afghanistan Nationwide Cricket Workforce and the report speaks for itself. Earlier than their T20 World Cup 2024 match, they performed 13 video games in opposition to one another throughout codecs, and in all these video games the outcomes went in India’s favor.
Talking concerning the T20Is, India, and Afghanistan had confronted off one another a complete of eight occasions, since their first assembly on the 2010 T20 World Cup in Grost Islet.
Out of these matches, the Males In Blue efficiently received 7 video games, together with a victory within the double Tremendous Over in January 2024, whereas one recreation between the groups was washed out. The match that was deserted was the ultimate of the Hangzhou Asian Video games final 12 months and the washout noticed India bagging a gold medal based mostly on greater seeding.
Relating to ODIs, Afghanistan have performed in opposition to India 4 occasions and by no means received any recreation whereas in Check cricket, the Asian groups performed only one recreation the place India handed a heavy defeat of an innings and 262 runs to Afghanistan.
Now after the conclusion of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024 conflict between the groups, the head-to-head report in T20Is stands at India 8 – Afghanistan 0, and in worldwide cricket, it’s India 14 – Afghanistan 0.
