New Delhi: Gulbadin Naib of Afghanistan unraveled the thread of Indian bowlers at Holkar Stadium in Indore on Sunday. He played a stormy half-century against India in the second T20.Naib, who came at number three, scored 57 runs in 35 balls. He hit 5 fours and 4 sixes. This is the second fifty of 32-year-old Naib’s T20 international career. He made Pachasa in the shortest format after 9 years. Naib scored his first T20I half-century in 2015 against Zimbabwe.
The Afghanistan team, which batted first after losing the toss, had a bad start. Opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz (14) returned to the pavilion in the third over.After he left, Naib came to bat.He adopted an aggressive attitude only after playing a few balls.He hit two consecutive fours in the fourth over bowled by fast bowler Mukesh Kumar and then targeted leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi in the fifth over. He hit a six on Bishnoi’s first ball and a four on the third-fourth ball.
Nayab scored a fifty in the 10th over.He touched this figure in 28 balls. His fifty was not complete but Virat Kohli made a mistake.Actually, Kohli took the catch of Naib in the ninth over bowled by Shivam Dubey. The Afghan player was on a personal score of 41 at that time. Nayaab tried to hit a six towards long on on the third ball of the over.In such a situation, Kohli tried to take a catch by diving forward but the ball slipped out of his hand. Naib scored the most runs for his team in the second match. Afghanistan team was limited to 172 runs.
