Rohit Sharma played an innings of 121* runs in the third T20 against Afghanistan. This was the fifth century of Rohit's T20I career. Rohit has set the record of scoring most centuries in this format. Furthermore, Rinku played an intelligent innings and scored 69* runs. In the match played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, India scored 212 runs in 20 overs for 4 wickets on the board.
India reached this total by losing 4 wickets in 4.3 overs. But then Rohit Sharma along with Rinku Singh took over the innings and till the end they started playing with the Afghan bowlers. In the last over of the innings, Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh combined to score 36 runs. Rinku scored a hat-trick of six in the last three balls. After four wickets fell 25 runs ago, India set the record for the highest score in T20.
Team India's top order, which won the toss and came to bat first, was quickly destroyed. Left-arm Afghanistan pacer Farid Ahmed Malik had cornered India by taking three wickets early on. Farid had dismissed Virat Kohli and Sanju Samson for golden ducks. Furthermore, he showed Jaiswal the way to the pavilion for 04 runs. But after that, Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh took charge and took India to a total of 212 runs.
Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh gave India life after losing four wickets for just 22 runs in 4.3 overs. Before Rohit-Rinku, Team India had lost four wickets in the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal (04), Virat Kohli (00), Shivam Dubey (01) and Sanju Samson (00).
After this, Rohit Sharma and Rinku Singh together formed a partnership of 190* runs for the fifth wicket. Rohit Sharma scored 121* runs in 69 balls with the help of 11 fours and 8 sixes. Furthermore, Rinku played an innings of 69* runs in 39 balls with the help of 2 fours and 6 sixes.
Farid Ahmed took a maximum of 3 wickets for Afghanistan. During this time he scored 20 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Azmatullah Omarzai took 1 wicket. Meanwhile, he scored 33 runs in 4 overs. None of the other Afghan bowlers could take wickets.