Axar Patel drove the accuse of the ball for India before Shivam Dube featured with the bat to give the hosts a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan on Thursday. Axar returned figures of 2/23 as India confined Afghanistan to 158/5 after Rohit Sharma selected to bowl. Axar got the wickets of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah, separately. Pursuing 159, Dube controlled India across the end goal in 17.3 overs with an unbeaten 60 off 40 balls.
The playing conditions weren’t awesome because of the temperature decreasing as underneath as 7 degree celsius in Mohali. Nonetheless, Axar and Dube tried to please India a benefit, in front of the second game in Indore on Sunday.
Regardless of his splendid spell, Axar conceded that the crisp weather conditions made his occupation somewhat troublesome.
“I wasn’t feeling the ball, it was freezing. We realized it was winter and would be cold, yet I was just contemplating my bowling, how to come down on them. There was a ton of dew, however I zeroed in on my exactness,” Axar said during the mid-innings show.
Axar likewise uncovered that he had inquired as to whether he can wear a glove on his non-bowling arm, to which the umpire dismissed his solicitation.
“I had inquired as to whether I can wear glove in one hand, yet he said no (Maine umpire se poocha tha ki fundamental ek haanth me gloves pehen ke bowling kar lun, lekin unhone mana kar diya),” he added.
In the mean time, India’s Virat Kohli missed the game because of “individual reasons” while Afghanistan turn lord Rashid Khan stays out of the series as he recuperates from a back a medical procedure.
Kohli has not played a T20I in more than a year. He is supposed to get back to the group for the second game at the Holkar Arena in Indore on Sunday.
Brief scores: Afghanistan: 158/5 out of 20 overs (Mohammad Nabi 42; Axar Patel 2/23, Mukesh Kumar 2/33).
India: 159 for four in 17.3 overs (Shivam Dube 60; Mujeev Ur Rahman 2/21)
