{"id":660088,"date":"2024-01-14T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=660088"},"modified":"2024-01-14T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T18:13:33","slug":"ind-vs-afg-gulbadin-naib-opened-the-thread-of-indian-bowlers-hit-fifty-after-9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/660088\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs AFG: Gulbadin Naib opened the thread of Indian bowlers; hit fifty after 9 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/akram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"465\" \/>New Delhi:\u00a0 Gulbadin Naib of Afghanistan unraveled the thread of Indian bowlers at Holkar Stadium in Indore on Sunday. <\/span><span class=\"\">He played a stormy half-century against India in the second T20.<\/span><span class=\"VIpgJd-yAWNEb-VIpgJd-fmcmS-sn54Q\">Naib, who came at number three, scored 57 runs in 35 balls. <\/span><span>He hit 5 fours and 4 sixes. <\/span><span>This is the second fifty of 32-year-old Naib&#8217;s T20 international career.\u00a0 <\/span><span>He made Pachasa in the shortest format after 9 years. <\/span><span>Naib scored his first T20I half-century in 2015 against Zimbabwe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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&#8217;s first ball and a four on the third-fourth ball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<span class=\"VIpgJd-yAWNEb-VIpgJd-fmcmS-sn54Q\">In such a situation, Kohli tried to take a catch by diving forward but the ball slipped out of his hand. <\/span>Naib scored the most runs for his team in the second match. Afghanistan team was limited to 172 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ads\">\n<div id=\"perainner\">\n<div id=\"perascrl\">\n<div class=\"ads-blc\">\n<div id=\"adslot1\" class=\"bid-ads\" data-mobcode=\"\/1055314\/LH_WAP_Story_Middle_Multisize\" data-mobsize=\"[[1, 1], [300, 250], [336, 280], [250, 250]]\" data-dktcode=\"\/1055314\/LH_Desk_Story_B_Multisize\" data-dktsize=\"[[300, 250], [336, 280], [250, 250]]\" data-google-query-id=\"CLyZ2Liy3YMDFT-vywEdGMwBTA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1055314\/LH_Desk_Story_B_Multisize_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 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&#8217;s T20 international career.\u00a0 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":660089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660090,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660088\/revisions\/660090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}