India vice-captain Rohit Sharma said that Wednesday’s match in the T20 World Cup against Afghanistan was about taking chances which came off well. He added that he and opening partner KL Rahul were talking about giving the team a good start. Rohit and Rahul’s 140-run partnership, the highest opening partnership for India across all editions of the T20 World Cups, set the base for India winning by 66 runs, keeping their hopes of reaching the semi-finals alive.

“Firstly, it was important for us to get off to a good start. If we talk about our batting, which didn’t happen in the first two games, that’s where we struggled a little bit to create that momentum in the first six overs. There was a conscious effort. We were talking, myself and KL, that we need to get the team a good start and how we can do that is playing our game, whatever that may be or however we want to play,” said Rohit in the post-match press conference.