Listen to Story The India vs Afghanistan clash in the T20 World Cup 2024 was full of unique feats for Rishabh Pant and Rashid Khan who registered contrasting firsts in their career. Notably, India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados. However, the skipper couldn’t get his team off to a good start getting dismissed for 8 (13) against Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Rohit’s wicket brought Rishabh Pant to the crease who’s been India’s best batter in the tournament so far. The southpaw started his innings in usual fashion scoring a boundary against Farooqi on the first ball itself. Pant further took on Mohammad Nabi smashing him for three consecutive boundaries in the last over of the powerplay and raced to 19 off 8 balls.
T20 World Cup Coverage | Points Table | T20 World Cup 2024 Schedule | Player Stats However, his innings was brought to an end as he attempted a reverse-sweep against Rashid Khan and got trapped in front of the stumps to be adjudged lbw. Pant even went upstairs for a review but the decision stood out. As a result, Rashid picked up his first wicket against India in T20Is.
The wrist spinner had earlier played a couple of matches against the Men in Blue in 2021 and 2022 registering figures of 0/36 and 0/33 respectively. Notably, it was Pant’s first ever lbw dismissal of his 70-match long T20I career. Following Pant’s dismissal, Rashid further got the big scalp of Virat Kohli who holed out at long off for .