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It was a very exciting match but in the end India won the match.
In the third and final T20 match played on 17 January, India defeated Afghanistan in the Double Super Over at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Let us tell you, it was a very exciting match but in the end India won this match.
During the match, when the first super over was being bowled, India needed two runs on the last ball. However, after this Rohit Sharma called Rinku Singh as the third batsman and he himself retired out and returned to the pavilion. Actually, Rohit Sharma took this decision because Rinku Singh runs faster than him and he himself wanted to win this match. Indian team’s head coach Rahul Dravid presented his side regarding this.
According to NDTV, Rahul Dravid said, ‘This was exactly Ravichandran Ashwin’s level of thinking.’
Afghanistan’s head coach Jonathan Trott was also surprised to see why this decision was taken? However, later he himself said that he did not know much about the rules and he himself was trying to understand all the rules.
India won the three-match T20 series 3-0
In this match, the Indian team, batting first, scored 212 runs losing four wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, captain Rohit Sharma played a record-breaking century of 121 runs in 69 balls with the help of 11 fours and eight sixes. Not only this, Rinku Singh also made a valuable contribution of 69* runs in this match. However, Gulbadin Naib, batting aggressively from Afghanistan’s side, played a stormy innings of 55 runs in 23 balls with the help of four fours and four sixes.
Because of his innings, Afghanistan scored 212 runs losing six wickets in 20 overs. After this, in the first super over, Mukesh Kumar bowled for the Indian team and Afghanistan scored 16 runs. However, due to the aggressive batting of Rohit Sharma, the first super over also ended in a tie. In the second super over, the Indian team batted first and could score only 11 runs.
The most surprising thing was that Ravi Bishnoi had come to bowl the second super over for the Indian team. Many people were quite surprised to see this thing. However, Ravi Bishnoi did not disappoint all the Indian fans and Rohit Sharma’s decision and he took two wickets for one run in three balls and played an important role in the victory of the Indian team.
