IND VS AFG - Super Four, Match 5 (A1 v B2), Asia Cup 2022

This game started off as dead rubber but it has given the Indian fans something to remember. Just like how India's loss to Bangladesh in the 2012 Asia Cup is remembered for Sachin Tendulkar's 100th hundred, this game will be known for Kohli breaking his hundred drought and reaching #71. India would be disappointed not going through to the final but their biggest take away from this tournament would be Kohli's return to form. Afghanistan were brilliant in the group stages but couldn't replicate the same performances in the Super Fours. That's all for today and we have the dress rehearsal for the final coming up tomorrow. Do join us for that game. Until next time, it's a goodbye from Akshay, Nikhil and Siva.

Virat Kohli | Player of the Match: Firstly I am grateful for how the day went today. Time away from the game gave me a good chance to sit back and observe a lot of things about me. I mentioned one special person - Anushka - who stood by me through these tough times and I mentioned her as she has seen the absolute raw side of me throughout all these months. She was the one putting things in perspective for me, kept giving me the right kind of guidance, vision moving forward and I came back into the system as a relaxed person. It was just about enjoying the game, understanding the game and what God blessed you with. Today was the build-up of the last few games, I batted out of my skin to be honest and I surprised myself. What surprised me was my 60s became failures; quite shocking for me, batting pretty well and contributing but doesn't seem to be enough. I can't really pinpoint anything to anyone as I said God has blessed me with good things in the past and that's why I am in this position where these things can be spoken about. I have absolute no shame in admitting that God is blessing us all with everything in our destiny, we just have to work hard. So I went back to the drawing board, came back fresh and excited. The team environment have had great communication with me, kept me relaxed and kept my perspective right. When I came back there was not much information coming my way, they just said bat and it was matter of getting into the space of enjoyment. I have had many suggestions, lot of advice has come my way; people were telling me I was doing this wrong, that wrong, I picked out all the videos from the best time I had; same initial movement, same approach towards the ball and it was just what was happening inside my head I wasn't able to explain it to anyone. At the end of the day you know as an individual where you stand, people will have their opinions but they cannot feel what you are feeling. I am very grateful for that time and needed it to change my perspective.

KL Rahul | Winning captain: Coming back after a big injury and surgery, I have realised playing the last few games it is not as easy as you think. I was eager to come and play but obviously finding the same touch or same rhythm wasn't coming easily as I thought it would. It is a learning for me as a player, happy I could spend some time in the middle and I started feeling good. In this format when you hit the first six off the middle gives you the confidence, I think the Hong Kong game I got a free-hit and though I didn't time it as well I could, I still hit the ball out of the ground and it felt good. Coming into the Pakistan game I felt little better and getting few shots away gave me the confidence, I am slowly getting into rhythm. The result has been disappointing. Ideally we would have wanted to play the final and challenge ourselves. We came into this tournament wanting to play the final and winning the big tournaments but it didn't go our way, we take the positives. We have been challenged and it is time to sit back and reflect. Losing is not great but sometimes you have to take it part of the journey, our vision is the World Cup and hopefully the learnings will help us for the World Cup.

Mohammad Nabi | Losing captain: It was really tough to play Pakistan the other night, tight game and straightaway next game is against India, totally tough. We weren't mentally prepared for that game. We tried our best to prepare but the boys were not ready mentally. Today we tried our best, with the way KL Rahul and Kohli started, we dropped catches also and in the batting we didn't expect that much swing. As a captain with the way we started the tournament was on a high morale, we didn't finish well but we played well.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4-1-4-5) - It was my day as I was getting the wickets (in the powerplay). If you look at the white ball it doesn't swing much, but it did swing a lot today. I think wherever I was bowling, I was getting wickets. If you look at those two matches - one against Pakistan and the other one against Sri Lanka, there wasn't much swing. It's quite unpredictable with the white ball. Chahar is coming off an injury, but he can also swing the ball both ways, he will need some time. It has been a good tournament, it's good for us leading into the World Cup.

STAT: Biggest defeat by runs for Afghanistan
116 vs Eng Colombo RPS 2012
101 vs Ind Dubai 2022 *
68 vs Ire Abu Dhabi 2013
66 vs Ind Abu Dhabi 2021
Biggest win by runs for India
143 vs Ire Malahide 2018
101 vs Afg Dubai 2022 *
93 vs SL Cuttack 2017
90 vs Eng Colombo RPS 2012

21:10 Local Time, 17:10 GMT, 22:40 IST: Afghanistan just didn't turn up and you can't blame them, can you? They were involved in a mentally and physically draining encounter against Pakistan yesterday and today had to face an Indian team who wanted to finish the tournament on a high. Apart from the first 2-3 overs where Rahul and Kohli took their time to get in, Afghanistan were never in the game. The Indian openers stitched a 100+ stand and set up the platform for a big score, Kohli came into his own and broke his hundred drought with number 71, then Bhuvi blew the top order away with his skillful bowling and recorded his career-best T20I figures. The chase was over within the 7th over, Ibrahim Zadran and the lower order hung around to bat out the 20 overs and give some respectability to the final score. Presentations coming up..

Karthik to Ibrahim Zadran, no run, India win by 101 runs. DK had his fun and so did Ibrahim. Handshakes all around. The last ball was quicker and flatter, Ibrahim hangs back and drills it straight to extra cover

Karthik to Ibrahim Zadran, 2 runs, flighted outside off, Ibrahim lofts it over extra cover but does not get the timing to collect the boundary, sweeper tidies up

Karthik to Ibrahim Zadran, 2 runs, in the air and drops safely. Ibrahim goes hard on the heave and loses his shape, miscues it towards cow corner, the ball lands between deep mid-wicket and long-on

Karthik to Ibrahim Zadran, SIX, back to back sixes. This is short in length and Ibrahim rocks back to nail the pull over long-on, much better connection than the previous hit and the ball comfortably sails over the rope

Karthik to Ibrahim Zadran, SIX, fifty for Ibrahim. Tossed up and he is not going to miss out on a scoring opportunity, swings it away high and over the deep mid-wicket. Raises his bat and acknowledges the applause

Karthik to Ibrahim Zadran, 2 runs, short and down leg, Ibrahim loses his grip on the bat as he pulls to deep backward square leg, just a brace

Dinesh Karthik, comes into the attack

Axar to Fareed Ahmad, no run, tossed up and Fareed hacks it across the line, picks out deep mid-wicket. They don't take a single

Axar to Fareed Ahmad, no run, short of length on off, Fareed hangs back and clips it to mid-wicket

Axar to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run, flighted around off, Ibrahim makes room and drives to sweeper cover

Axar to Fareed Ahmad, 1 run, turning into the left hander and Fareed tucks it to deep square leg

Axar to Ibrahim Zadran, 1 run, pushed through around off, Ibrahim cracks the cut to sweeper cover

Axar to Ibrahim Zadran, 2 runs, fraction short and around off, Ibrahim punches it to wide of long-off and picks up a brace