IND vs AFG / India beat Afghanistan by 101 runs with Kohli's century

Team India, already out of the final race, has ended its campaign in the Asia Cup with a win. India defeated Afghanistan by 101 runs in their last Super-4 match in a one-sided fashion.The most memorable moment of this match was Virat Kohli's 71st international century. King Kohli has scored a century after almost 3 years (1020 days). This is also his first century in T20 International cricket

Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 08, 2022, 10:49 PM
IND vs AFG: Team India, already out of the final race, has ended its campaign in the Asia Cup with a win. India defeated Afghanistan by 101 runs in their last Super-4 match in a one-sided fashion.

The most memorable moment of this match was Virat Kohli's 71st international century. King Kohli has scored a century after almost 3 years (1020 days). This is also his first century in T20 International cricket. On the basis of this innings of Virat, India scored 212 runs for the loss of two wickets in 20 overs. KL Rahul, captaining in the absence of Rohit Sharma, scored 62 runs.


In reply, Afghanistan team could score only 111 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 8 wickets. Ibrahim Zadran scored 62 runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 5 wickets for India. The Afghan team also fell 11 runs behind Virat Kohli's score.

King Kohli's century after 2019

Virat has scored a century in international cricket after almost three years (1020 days). Earlier, he scored the 70th century of his career in the Kolkata Test against Bangladesh on November 23, 2019. This is his first century in T20 Internationals. Virat Kohli has now equaled former Australia captain Ricky Ponting in terms of scoring the most international centuries. Both have 71-71 centuries to their name. Sachin Tendulkar leads the way with 100 centuries.

Regular Captain Rohit Sharma is not playing today. Rahul is captaining in his absence. Rahul and Virat came to the opening and added 119 runs in the partnership of the first wicket.

Suryakumar Yadav, who came to bat after Rahul's dismissal, hit a brilliant six on the very first ball, but he was clean bowled on the next ball. He scored 6 runs in 2 balls.

Martin Guptill left behind

With this, the name of King Kohli has become 3584 runs in T20 Internationals. He has come second, leaving behind Martin Guptill in terms of scoring the most runs in T20 Internationals. At the same time, he has become the second batsman to score more than 3500 runs in T20 International.

Kohli became the highest scorer of 50+ runs in T20 Internationals

Actually, former Indian captain Virat Kohli has become the highest scorer of 50+ runs in T20 Internationals. He has left behind Indian captain Rohit Sharma in this matter. Rohit Sharma has crossed the fifty-run mark 32 times in T20 Internationals. At the same time, Virat Kohli crossed the fifty-run mark for the 33rd time today. Significantly, in the Asia Cup 2022, Virat Kohli has crossed the fifty-run mark thrice so far. He is also the highest run scorer for India.

Playing-11 of both the teams

India - KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Deepak Hooda, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Deepak Chahar, R Ashwin

Afghanistan- Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Karim Jannat, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Majib ur Rehman, Farid Ahmed, Fazlhaq Farooqui