IND vs AFG: India Beats Afghanistan by 8 Wickets in World Cup 2023; Rohit and Virat Shine!

India’s campaign to win the 2023 World Cup continues. Team India beat Afghanistan by eight wickets in their second match. In this match held at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Afghanistan won the toss and batted first, losing eight wickets in 50 overs and scoring 272 runs. Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi played an innings of 80 runs and Azmatullah Omarzai played an innings of 62 runs.

On this day, batting first, Afghanistan scored 272 runs for the loss of eight wickets. This is Afghanistan’s highest run in an ODI against India. Captain Hashmatullah Shahidi contributed the highest score of 80 runs. Azmatullah Omarzai scored 62 runs. Apart from these two, the Afghan batsmen got off to a good start but none could play a big innings. Ibrahim Zadran was the team’s third-highest scorer with 22 runs. Jasprit Bumrah took the maximum four wickets for India. Hardik Pandya got two wickets, and Shardul and Kuldeep got one wicket each. Siraj scored a lot of runs in this match. He scored 76 runs in nine overs without taking any wickets.

In the second innings, India achieved the target by losing two wickets in 35 overs. Captain Rohit Sharma played an innings of 131 runs off 85 balls with the help of 16 fours and 5 sixes. Besides this, Virat Kohli remains unbeaten with 55 runs off 56 balls. He hit a four off the last ball of the 35th over to give Team India victory. It was Virat’s 68th ODI half-century in his career. It was also his second consecutive half-century in the current World Cup. Virat scored 85 runs in the last match against Australia.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma scored a century off 63 balls. He scored the fastest century for India in ODI World Cup. Rohit broke the record of great captain Kapil Dev in this regard. Kapil Dev scored a century against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup off just 72 balls. It was Rohit’s 31st ODI century. Also, he is the batsman with the most centuries in the World Cup. He has seven centuries to his name in this tournament. In this case, he has left the legendary Sachin Tendulkar behind.