Riding on an excellent batting effort by Virat Kohli and some clinical bowling by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, India beat Afghanistan by 101 runs in the Super 4 encounter at Asia Cup in Dubai on Thursday, Hindustan times reported.Kohli ended his century dry spell and powered India to 212/2.
In action, Afghanistan got off to a terrible start with Bhuvneshwar taking apart the Afghan batters.
Bhuvneshwar scalped 5 wickets in his four overs.
Arshdeep Singh, R Ashwin and Deepak Hooda picked one wicket each.
Previously in the evening Kohli took simply 53 deliveries to reach the triple digit mark.
He reached his century in design as he smashed Fareed Ahmad for a 6 in the 19th over, read the report.The talismanic batter opened the innings with KL Rahul and returned unbeaten on 122 off 61 balls, which included twelve fours and 6 6s.
The opening pair offered India with an explosive start after being welcomed to bat first.
The duo included 119 runs for the opening wicket, before Fareed removed Rahul on 62( 41 ).
He then packed Suryakumar Yadav in the exact same over.
Kohli along with Rishabh Pant then drove the Indian innings.
Hindustan times reported.Rahul led the system as India made three changes in their line-up.
Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya and Yuzvendra Chahal were rested and Deepak Chahar, Dinesh Karthik, and Axar Patel can be found in as replacement for the trio.The post India defeat Afghanistan by 101 runs initially appeared on Ariana News.