Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s India A missed its second consecutive ODI match in the triangular ODI series. Batting first, India A scored 349 runs losing nine wickets in 49 overs in the rain-interrupted match.
Later, due to repeated rain, Afghanistan got a revised target of 294 runs in 38 overs.
How did Afghanistan A win by scoring 177 runs?
Captain Imran (75 not out in 70 balls) and Hasan Isakhil (34 in 29 balls) gave an aggressive start to Afghanistan. Bahir Shah (51 in 52 balls) and Imran together took the team to 177 runs for two wickets in 25.5 overs when it started raining again. At that time Afghanistan was four runs ahead of the target based on the Duckworth-Lewis system.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 44 runs in 22 balls
Before this, India had a good start and Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 44 runs in 22 balls with the help of nine fours. He maintained a strike rate of 200 without hitting a single six in his innings. Suryavanshi and Prabhasimran made a partnership of 74 runs in 7.1 overs for the first wicket. Suryavanshi caught Mohammad Ishaq behind the wicket on Abdullah Ahmadzai’s bouncer outside the off stump.
Prabhasimran missed a century after scoring 84 runs
Batting first, India A scored 349 runs for nine wickets with the help of half-centuries from captain Tilak Verma, vice-captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and opener Prabhsimran Singh. Prabhasimran scored 84 runs in 69 balls. This was his second consecutive fifty in the tournament. Gaikwad scored 66 runs in 80 balls and Tilak scored 66 runs in 73 balls. Ahmadzai took five wickets for 68 runs.
India A lost the match due to umpire’s mistake, not rain?
Even though the result of the match came from Duckworth Lewis, a major reason for it going against India was the wickets which kept falling in India’s bag and Afghanistan A reached beyond the revised target. In fact, during Afghanistan AK’s run chase, their captain Imran (75 runs in 70 balls) was given life by the umpires in 25.5 overs, which changed the course of the match. The TV umpire declared Imran not out after frame-by-frame investigation and after this, Imran made an unbeaten 108-run partnership with fourth-placed Bahir Shah (51 not out in 52 balls). When the day’s play ended, this partnership overshadowed India A.