On Thursday (20 June), India will play against Afghanistan in their initial T20 World Cup 2024 Clash at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown. So far, India has won seven out of eight T20I matches with Afghanistan; but in Hangzhou, an Asian Game 2023 meeting was rained off.
India faced and overcame Afghanistan thrice during the T20 cricket world championship. By staging another brave performance this coming Thursday, the blue men from India are seeking to maintain their clean win record against their fellow Asians. This shall enable them to participate in the semi-finals of T20 World Cup 2024.
Before we head into the India-Afghanistan Super 8 game, here’s a quick look at how these two teams have performed against each other in T20Is:
Here are some interesting facts about T20I cricket records in the world :
If it comes to most victories than India ranks top as they won 7 out of 8 matches . The highest that has ever been scored in any single game was 212 runs for 2 wickets in 20 overs which happened on 8th September 2022 at Dubai while there are two other instances where such runs have been made in as few as 20 overs too . Two other times when this happened were on 17th January 2024 at Bengaluru where India scored 212/4 from 20 overs, as well as Afghanistan’s 212/6 from 20 overs in Bengaluru later this year. The least number can be found in 8 overs Afghanistan’s total is 111- all out ,it happened during the same series India won the match in the year 2022.
India’s biggest win was scoring a whopping 101 more than Afghanistan in Dubai on September 8th, 2022.
Their largest win by wickets came when they scored seven more than the opposing side from Afghanistan during their game at Gros Islet on May 1st, 2010.
Virat Kohli with 201 runs from five T20Is has the most runs. Virat Kohli scored 122 not out off 61 balls against India at Dubai on September 8, 2022 to have the highest score ever.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli both scored 1 hundred each — the most 100s. KL Rahul and Shivam Dube from India scored 2 times each; Gulbadin Naib and Ibrahim Zadran from Afghanistan also got 2 times each — the most 50s.
Most ducks were scored by Rohit Sharma from India who scored 2 ducks out of his five matches played within T20Is.
Most sixes in his five T20Is were 11 sixes acquired by Rohit Sharma from India. Virat Kohli from India has the record for hitting 21 fours within just 5 T20Is.
Rohit Sharmad hit 8 sixes in a row on January 17, 2024 with Bengaluru scoring 121 runs per inning.
Within five matches total wickets taken are five each for Bhuvneshwar Kumar, R Ashwin, Arshdeep Singh (all three from India) and Fareed Ahmad from Afghanistan.
