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Skip next section Cricket: India defeats Afghanistan as Gill leads with an unbeaten knock 06/14/2026 June 14, 2026 Cricket: India defeats Afghanistan as Gill leads with an unbeaten knock India Test captain Shubman Gill scored an unbeaten 84 as the hosts beat Afghanistan by seven wickets in a rain-shortened 25-overs-a-side one-day international (ODI) in Dharamsala on Saturday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
Chasing 195, India reached 195-3 with 13 balls to spare, led by Gill's 66-ball knock and an unbeaten 39 off 19 balls from KL Rahul. The Afghan team was all out for 194 in 24.5 overs despite opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz smashing 102. The wicketkeeper scored the fastest ODI century by an Afghan, reaching three figures off 48 balls, but received little support from the rest of the batting lineup.
"It was kind of a T20 game," said Gill, who was named player of the match. "The way we started, Gurbaz was brilliant and took the game away from us, but we fought back well." The second ODI will be played in Lucknow on Wednesday. India's
Shubman Gill plays a shot during the first ODI cricket match against Afghanistan Image: Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo/picture alliance India's Harsh Dubey celebrates after dismissing Afghanistan's AM Ghazanfar Image: Arun Sankar/AFP Afghanistan's Ziaur Rahman celebrates taking the the wicket of India's Shreyas Iyer Image: Ashwini Bhatia/AP Photo/picture alliance
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