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A surprising incident happened in India vs Afghanistan third ODI. The captain of the visiting team, Hashmatullah Shahidi, made a mistake due to which his team had to bear the brunt. With this the Indian team got 5 free runs. This has been seen very rarely in the history of cricket, but in Chennai he was making the same mistake many times, so the umpire had to take this decision.
This first century of Hashmatullah Shahidi was also special because at one time it seemed that the entire team might collapse within 100 runs. Afghanistan’s 4 wickets had fallen at the score of 36, then the captain played a brilliant century and took the score beyond 200. But in this innings he was continuously running in the ‘danger area’. It is important to keep this part of the pitch safe. The umpire had given the warning earlier.
Penalty after warning
Before the penalty, the umpire had warned Hashmatullah Shahidi twice. After this the Afghanistan captain kept repeating that mistake. The umpire’s patience ran out in the 40th over. Shahidi took a run off the ball of Washington Sundar, after which the umpire stopped him and penalized him by informing him of the violation of the rules.
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The umpire gave 5 runs penalty to Team India for Hashmatullah’s mistake. Along with this, that run was also not counted, after which the umpire had stopped him and punished him. When Shahidi did not take strike in the 41st over, the commentators along with the fans were left wondering.
Then it became clear that the run taken on the last ball of the previous over was not valid, so Rashid Khan took the strike.
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— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) June 20, 2026
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India won the match by 9 wickets
Afghanistan had scored 218 runs while batting first, in reply India achieved the target in 28.4 overs and registered a big win by 9 wickets. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma made a partnership of 170 runs for the first wicket. Rohit scored 79 runs, Yashasvi Jaiswal remained unbeaten after scoring 110 runs. With this victory, India won the 3-match ODI series 3-0.