India vs Afghanistan, T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: SKY, Bumrah lead IND to comprehensive 47-run win

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Rishabh Pant has been walking in at No.3 in this tournament and it looks like he may have made that position his own already. Pant has scored 96 runs in three innings at a strike rate of 124.67 and average of 48.00, often bailing India out after they would lose an early wicket, which has almost always been that of Virat Kohli.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: It is quite unusual to see a team picking two players who are almost identical in their skill sets but that is what India are doing with Axar Patel and Ravindra Jadeja. The usual has been Jadeja playing ahead of Axar but in this tournament, those circumstances have changed. Axar has been better with Jadeja with both ball and bat. It is unlikely that either will get replaced today but if push does come to shove, has Axar done enough to retain his place?

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Virat Kohli arrived in New York much later than the rest of his teammates because of which he sat out India's only practice game against Bangladesh. He missed a couple of training sessions and one was washed out which means when he walked to open the innings for India against Ireland along with Rohit Sharma, he had practically no cricket in his body since the end of RCB's IPL campaign in the Eliminator on May 22. He has thus far recorded scores of one against Ireland, four against Pakistan and a golden duck against the USA.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Afghanistan and India have tied an ODI and T20I match, with the second of those being decided after two Super Overs. But never have Afghanistan ever beaten India in any international fixture. This will be the 14th match between the two sides across formats.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Rashid Khan has dismissed Rohit Sharma four times in 40 deliveries in T20s and the Afghanistan skipper could look at bringing himself on slightly early in the innings.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: India played a three-match T20I series against Afghanistan earlier this year, their only international series in the shortest format before this T20 World Cup. Rohit Sharma was unbeaten on 121 off 69, Rinku Singh on 69 off 39 as India scored 212/4 batting first. Afghanistan gave the steep target a red-hot go, with openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran both scoring half-centuries and Gulbadin Naib staying unbeaten on 55 off 23. Afghanistan finished on 212/6 and the game went into a Super Over. Afghanistan scored 16/1 and India equalised that score, leading to another Super Over. The umpires somehow forgot the rules and allowed Rohit to bat again despite him retiring out in the first Super Over but India could only score 11/2. Ravi Bishnoi then came in and took two wickets in the first three balls and India won at long last.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: He hasn't had much to do with the bat but judging by what he has done with the ball, Hardik Pandya seems to have left behind the nightmarish IPL season he had before this tournament. Pandya has taken seven wickets in three matches and went at an economy of just 5.41. The fact remains, though, that he had bowled in those New York pitches that were a fast bowler's paradise. It will be interesting to see how fares in the Caribbean.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Arshdeep and Farooqi are the two leading wicket-takers among left-arm seamers in the Powerplay in T20Is since the start of 2022. In T20 WC 2024, Farooqi has seven wickets in this phase and Arshdeep four.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: Virat Kohli has fallen for a golden duck just twice in his T20I career. Both of those instances came this year and one of those, incidentally was against Afghanistan in Bengaluru in January.

India vs Afghanistan Live Score T20 World Cup 2024, IND vs AFG: It will be a surprise if India don't field Kuldeep Yadav today. And when they do, they would have to let one of Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj out of the playing eleven, unless Jasprit Bumrah has a niggle, in which case India will have some serious existensial crises to deal with. Arshdeep has been quite sensational so far in this tournament and he is also a left-armer, all of which means that he could be the preferred option to Siraj.