India vs Afghanistan
IND vs AFG: Afghanistan wins Team India.
New Delhi, Abhishek Tripathi Opponents should never take lightly and whenever they do this, they sing. This is exactly what happened to the Indian team in Dubai on Tuesday. Coach Ravi Shastri and team management deemed Afghanistan weak and did not change one or two but five changes in the team that won four consecutive matches in the Asia Cup. Not only the captain, the vice-captain was also rested. The result is in front of everyone.
Somehow Asia's number one and the world's second-largest number of Indian team lost to the number 10 ranked in Afghanistan. The strategy of the masters could not be justified because the Afghans in their group match in Asia Cup, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh The teams were defeated. In this tournament, Afghanistan had won both their group clashes and he came in Super-4 while on top of his group.
Despite this, the Indian management took it lightly. In this tournament, Team India first fought with Afghans and barely survived the defeat. So far between India and Afghanistan, two ODIs, two T20s and one Test match have been played. Before the match on Tuesday, India had defeated the team in all their four international matches.
A lot of changes and team stacks
Five changes were made for the match in the Indian team. Regular captain Rohit Sharma, vice-captain Shikhar Dhawan, leg spinner Yuvraj Singh, and fast bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jaspreet Bumrah were rested. Their replacements were KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Deepak Chahar, Siddharth Kaul and Khalil Ahmed in the final eleven. It was Chahal's first, Khalil Ahmad's second, Siddharth Kaul's third, Rahul's 13th and Manish Pandey's 23rd ODI.
Certainly, big teams give new players a chance against weak teams, but changing the five players together means that you are not giving chance to your players, but you are giving the weak team an opportunity to be overwhelmed on their own. Something similar happened on Tuesday.
The team did not feed their three experienced bowlers and this was the reason why Mohammad Shahzad made his fifth ODI century of his career. He was shooting a shot at where he was looking. Thanks to his century, Afghanistan scored 252 for eight wickets in 50 overs. Shahzad scored 124 runs in 116 balls with 11 fours and seven sixes.
No team's batsmen have been able to do so in this Asia Cup against India so far. Shehzad became the first batsman in Afghanistan to score a century against India. If any of Bhuji, Bumrah and Yuswendra Singh Chahal were in the team, then Shahzad could also be out on low scores.
It is good that Ravindra Jadeja, who took the first three wickets and later saved the game from defeat by playing 25 off 34 balls in a delicate time. Although he could also win the team because India needed one run on two balls but they were trapped in the shot to hit the shot. At the same time, taking a wrong review of KL Rahul also caused India heavy because after this Team India did not have any reviews.
If this review was left out, then Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik could avoid appealing against the wrong decision of the umpire. Both of them are out on the wrong decision. In the last over, India needed seven runs to win, but Rashid Khan was just six runs in this over and the match was tie.
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