Dubai 8th September : The team is out of the competition, India signed off from Asia Cup 2022 on a high with an utter thrashing of 101 runs of Afghanistan in the final Super Four match at the Dubai International Stadium on Thursday.In an unfinished rubber, the talismanic batter Virat Kohli offered Indian fans a myriad of motives to be content.
Since captain Rohit Sharma was put on rest, Kohli was promoted to begin the bat.The next thing that happened was one that no one could have anticipated but left Kohli himself awestruck.
Kohli ended his run of not making 100 runs in international cricket for the past 1020 days with an incredible career-best 122 runs in just 61 balls which were that was laced with 12 sixes and six fours at a strike-rate of 200.
After a blistering first match of 120 off 76 balls with the stand-in captain KL Rahul scoring 65 of the runs, Kohli accelerated amazingly from 59 off 40 balls to score the rest of his 63 runs using just 21 balls to record a century-long 71st international century.After the success of Kohli’s century India achieved a staggering 212/2.
Then, Bhuvneshwar’s senior pacer’s streak of 5/4, with lots of swing and hitting the right spots consistently, took down the Afghanistan challenge, ultimately limiting the Afghans to 111/8 in 20 overs.
It was a day that will be remembered for Afghanistan who stepped into the game just 24 hours after their one-wicket loss to Pakistan in Sharjah.They lost wickets which included of Kohli at 28.appeared tired and weren’t at their best.
Brief Scores: India 212/2 in 20 overs (Virat Kohli 122 not out, KL Rahul 62; Fareed Malik 2/57) beat Afghanistan 111/8 in 20 overs (Ibrahim Zadran 64 not out, Mujeeb Ur Rahman 18; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 5/4, Deepak Hooda 1/3) by 101 runs
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