First Time In History! Indian Cricket Team On Verge Of Beating Pakistan To Major T20I Feat

The Indian cricket team has been quite impressive in the ongoing T20I series against Afghanistan and a win in the final game of the three-match series can earn them a unique distinction in the shortest format of the sport. The Rohit Sharma-led side has already won the series with victory in the first two matches and a win in the third T20I match in Bengaluru will result in a historic whitewash. Till now, both India and Pakistan have the joint most whitewash bilateral series in T20I history (8). However, a win in the third T20I on Wednesday will take India's tally to 9 and they will become the first team ever to achieve that feat.

With the series already in the bag, India will be eager to perfect their freshly-baked T20 template as a team and hope that skipper Rohit's bat in the third and last match of the rubber on Wednesday.

This will be India's final T20 game ahead of the World Cup in June, and the team management wouldn't want any drop in intensity that was displayed during victories at Mohali and Indore.

India's identical six-wicket wins were marked by an ultra-aggressive mindset from ball one that saw them chasing down 159 in 17.3 overs and 173 in 15.4 overs respectively.

It was a clear deviation from their earlier approach of building the momentum for a final flourish in T20s. None showed this intent more brightly than Shivam Dube and Virat Kohli.

Kohli was playing a T20I for India after 14 months at Indore, but he creamed a 16-ball 29 at a strike rate of 181.

The most noteworthy feature of his little yet significant innings was the way he handled Afghan spinner Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, whom he carted for 18 runs off seven balls, striking against him at a rate of 257.

Kohli has always been a bit of a slow-mover against