🏏Asia Cup 2022 Super 4 - Match 5 : Afghanistan vs India🏏 - Page 2

Table topper crashers playing for honor today!

Afghanistan gave such a tough fight to Pakistan yesterday. Will India keep the same playing 11🤔

All the best to both teams.

Thanks for the tag ❤️

BTW why India's all matches are in dubai?

Afg has to play yesterday in Sharjah and travel to dubai for this match. Now this match is useless so it's okay. Otherwise it would have been tiring for afghanistan team

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Originally posted by: shruti46

BTW why India's all matches are in dubai?

Afg has to play yesterday in Sharjah and travel to dubai for this match. Now this match is useless so it's okay. Otherwise it would have been tiring for afghanistan team

Jisne timetable banaya tha use pata Afg aur Pak ke match ke baad Sharjah kaa stadium vandalize ho jaayega isliye risk nahin liya

Let's hope this one India wins convincingly

Originally posted by: Tapdance

Table topper crashers playing for honor today!

Afghanistan gave such a tough fight to Pakistan yesterday. Will India keep the same playing 11🤔

All the best to both teams.

Thanks for the tag ❤️

Honour to Afg ke liye hai. India haarne par learning experience bolkar nikal legi.

What they said:

"I think somewhere down the line in a tournament like this where there are different opponents, the pressure is more. In a bilateral, you play 3-5 games against the same opponent so there you get to know that the opposition did this today so what kind of plans we need to come with tomorrow. But in a tournament like this - World Cup and Asia Cup - the challenge is different teams come up with different plans. We've spoken a lot about this, that we've to stay ahead of the opponents, have to think ahead, only then we'll get results. It's unfortunate that we couldn't make it to the later stages of the World Cup, now we've lost two games here." - Rohit Sharma

"We didn't leave the game at any stage. The boys fought on every ball. Again, it was the end, both with the bat and with the ball. We thought that we chased well against Bangladesh. We will try our best to play the last game with the same energy." - Mohammad

Did you know:

- Since the 2021 World Cup, Rohit Sharma has the highest PowerPlay strike rate in T20Is - 152.28. At 140.68, Nicholas Pooran is a distant second.

- Rashid Khan has bowled 43 deliveries to KL Rahul in T20s, conceding just 33 runs and dismissing the Indian opener thrice. Against Hardik, Rashid has given away only 27 runs in 37 balls and dismissed him twice.

Team Watch:

India

Injury/Unavailability: Avesh Khan is still out with a fever. If he is ruled out, Deepak Chahar - who is among the reserves - could fill in.

Tactics and match-ups: If India pick five pure bowlers again and use Hardik as the sixth option, he could be used specifically in the middle-overs where he has earned the best returns since January 2020 - 10 wickets in 38 overs with an economy rate of 7.63. Dinesh Karthik could get a look-in considering India have struggled with the bat at the death in both their Super Four defeats (46/2 in the last 5 overs vs Pakistan and 46/4 against Sri Lanka)

Afghanistan

Injury/Unavailability: Given the turnaround time between this game and their last, there are going to be a lot of sore players in that side, but there are no confirmed absentees. Fareed Ahmed, who picked three, was seen limping after his spell.

Tactics and match-ups: In FazalHaq Farooqi and Fareed Ahmed, Afghanistan have two bowlers who can trouble all of India's top-three who don't match up well against left-arm pace. Mohammad Nabi's use of Rashid Khan will be key too as the leggie matches up well against every Indian batter - except Rohit who has scored at a SR of 148.28 against him. Even with Rohit, Rashid has dismissed him thrice in the 29 balls he has bowled to him in T20s. None of the other batters strike at more than 120.

Head to head: India have played Afghanistan thrice in T20Is before with India winning all three contests. The last time India met Afghanistan in a T20 game, they were staring at an elimination from last year's World Cup following defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand.