After India`s famed top-order imploded in the face of some tight bowling from an unswerving bunch of young Afghans in Bengaluru, skipper Rohit Sharma displayed admirable composure to peel-off one of his epic T20I knocks.

Two teams that met in Mohali for the first encounter of the T20I series traded blows for 42 overs of a pulse-setting Twenty20 and, when it came to the crunch, hosts India threw the biggest blow, leaving Afghanistan in the desolate embrace of defeat. To put this finish in perspective, you have to understand where India were placed for more than two-thirds of the first innings on Wednesday. Little did Sharma know that the vanguard of his batting lineup would succumb to a relentless barrage of skillful deliveries from a team they had beaten not once, but twice, just last week.