Shivam Dube Joins Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli In Elite List After All-Round Show Against Afghanistan

India all-rounder Shivam Dube is off to a fine comeback run in T20I cricket, as with his superb all-round show during the second India-Afghanistan T20I at Indore, he joined the elite company of legends like Yuvraj Singh and Virat Kohli. Shivam is the seventh Indian player to take at least a wicket and score a fifty in a T20I match, but only the third player to do it on two or more occasions, with Yuvraj having done it three times and Virat having done it twice.

In the first T20I against Afghanistan, Shivam took 1/9 in two overs and scored 60* in 40 balls with five fours and two sixes. In the second T20I held yesterday, Shivam took 1/36 with the ball in three overs and went on to score a fiery 63* in 30 balls, with five fours and four monstrous sixes.

Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Tilak Varma and Washington have also accomplished this feat once each.

Shivam made his return to the national side after three years during the tour to Ireland last year and travelled with the Asian Games gold medal-winning team in Hangzhou as well. '

Since that Ireland series, Shivam has featured in seven matches, having scored 170 runs across four innings without getting out at a strike rate of 158.87 with two half-centuries. He has also taken three wickets across these seven games.

With Hardik Pandya out due to an injury, Shivam is getting these chances to establish himself as a backup to the star pace bowling all-rounder ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in the West Indies and USA from June 1 onwards and seeing his performances so far, it is safe to say that Shivam is presenting a claim for a spot in the World Cup squad.

Coming to the match, India opted to field first and troubled Afghanistan with frequent wickets. Gulbadin Naib (57 in 35 balls,