Asia Cup 2022: Bhuvneshwar Kumar delivers best bowling figures for India in T20Is

Indian cricket team won their last game of the Asia Cup 2022 by a huge margin. The game was played against Afghanistan on Thursday, 8th September. Both the teams were already out of the competition, but were playing to be above each other. Indian pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled an amazing spell which helped India bowled out Afghanistan on 111 runs.

Indian cricket team gave a target of 213 runs to Afghanistan thanks to Virat Kohli’s century which came after 1020 days. Virat Kohli scored 122* runs with the help of 12 boundaries and 6 sixes. There was another player who performed well for India named Bhuvneshwar Kumar who took 5 wickets by giving just 4 runs in his four-over spell. This is the best spell from any Indian bowler in T20I cricket.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 3 wickets in his first 12 balls in the game against Afghanistan. Bhuvneshwar Kumar also registered most wickets for Indian team in T20 Internationals i.e. 84. This is the best bowling figures for him in blue jersey (4-1-5-4). There were two strong contenders for the ‘player of the match’ award namely Virat Kohli and Bhuvneshwar Kumar but an emphatic century from Kohli won hearts and thus considered as the player of the match performance.