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ICC T20 World Cup 2021: “This Is How Its Done”-Twitter Welcomes India’s First Win In The Competition

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ICC T20 World Cup 2021: “This Is How Its Done”-Twitter Welcomes India’s First Win In The Competition
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India beat Afghanistan by 66 runs to come back to winning ways in the ICC T20 World Cup 2021. In the process, they pull their net run-rate back into positive and stay alive in the contest. Their ner run-rate reads +0.073 with two more games to go in the league stage. The side has moved upto the fourth position in the points table after this win.

Knowing that they had a lot to do, Indian openers started aggressively against the Afghan bowlers. Rohit Sharma (74) and KL Rahul (69) stitched an opening stand of 140 to lay the platform. Rishabh Pant (27) and Hardik Pandya (35) went all guns blazing in the final overs to tek the score past 200. They finally ended up scoring 210/2.

With his bowlers, Virat Kohli had an ultra aggressive approach while he defended the total. Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah bowled two overs each upfront and took early wickets as well.

India Beat Afghanistan By 66 Runs

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Ravichandran Ashwin, playing his first T20I game since 2017 ended with 2/14. He did not concede any boundary off his spell. In the end, despite some big shots from the Afghanistan batters, India won the game by 66 runs to stay in the contest. They needed to win by a margin of over 60 runs to pull their net run-rate into positive which they did as well.

Twitter welcomed back the Indian team to winning ways. They celebrated the victory knowing that the team still has a slim chance of making the semi-finals.

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Indian skipper Virat Kohli was a relieved man at the post-match presentation.

” Sometimes, you do fall to the pressure and have to accept that. T20 cricket is a very instinctive game, in batting, bowling and decision-making. We do make decisions on the go. Top three is mostly settled unless situations like today when the openers batted all the way through and the power-hitters were ready. We don’t always decide early to go hard, but we do back ourselves and when we do get going, we know what we can do. Well, yes that is the plan (to keep playing this way) but as I said, sometimes you just give in to the pressure. The other teams bowled really well to us. Yes, it (net run rate) was to be honest. We are always positive, and so were thinking about it. The return of Ash (is the biggest positive), we saw him doing well in the IPL and when he does this, we get control in the middle overs. That’s what I’m most pleased about (today)” said Kohli.


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