India vs Afghanistan, Only Test - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, another shuffling defence, rather loose hands now as the ball almost pops back through his legs. I0$ to keep it out

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, quick one sliding in. 94kph. Rahul covers the line, right behind it off the back foot

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, googly as usual. Rahul uses the entire crease depth, soft-handing it through short leg

Rashid Khan to Vijay, 1 run, another flick to short mid-wicket, but in the quest to deny Vijay the run, Shahzad gets sloppy. Fumble. And Vijay keeps running back to the dressing room

Wafadar to Rahul, no run, oh they can bowl bouncers -- and here's probably the first in the day. Short, slowly looping up over a sitting Rahul

Wafadar to Vijay, 1 run, 134kph, goes on his toes in a high elbowed punchy steer, to cover's left

Rashid Khan to Vijay, 1 run, some bounce. Vijay tries using the angle as he closes down the bat face a touch early .. leading-edging it in the end to point

Wafadar to Rahul, no run, length, just outside. Wanting a leave. Gets a leave

Wafadar to Vijay, 1 run, 129kph, goes tall in a careful square cut, but Afghanistan have done well to plug that boundary now

Rashid Khan to Rahul, 2 runs, leg-break. Dropped half way down the pitch and muscled away through point, yet again. Shahzad, the showman keeps the crowd entertained, covering good distance from sweeper, tumbling in his dive too

Rashid Khan to Vijay, 1 run, floaty googly, 88kph. Vijay stoops right to the pitch of it, threading a cover drive

Nabi to Rahul, no run, closer to off, Rahul helps the turn there is softly to leg

Nabi to Rahul, no run, floated up outside off, Rahul covers the line with his stride, bat stuck

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, conventional now. But too short again, Rahul keeps rocking behind, this time to stab to point

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, googly. Too short giving Rahul enough time to go deep in the crease, ride the bounce and nudge it to short leg

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, 95kph of a yorker. Rahul tries drilling it down, too hard to lose shape. Eventually only a squeeze

Mujeeb to Rahul, no run, on middle now. Rahul opens up his stance in smothering

Mujeeb to Rahul, no run, nice toss up outside off, Rahul gets out a stride, long, close, blocked

Nabi to Rahul, no run, what happened there? Vijay is flat on his back. Rahul works it to a squarish mid-wicket and Vijay set off on the single, Rahul was not interested and the throw came to the bowler's end. Vijay had to hurry back and he got there with a dive

Nabi to Vijay, 1 run, round-armish delivery and Vijay nudges it to deep mid-wicket, Shahzad runs in and fires a javelin like throw to the keeper. He is entertaining the crowd near the mid-wicket fence

Mujeeb to Rahul, no run, carrom ball and Rahul angles it with an open bat face to backward point

Nabi to Rahul, no run, comes down the track and turns it gently with the spin to mid-wicket. He wasn't to the pitch

Nabi to Vijay, 1 run, flighted on middle, Vijay eases it down to long-on

Mujeeb to Rahul, no run, blocked into the off-side

Mujeeb to Rahul, no run, tossed up on off, Rahul defends with the head right on top of the ball

Mujeeb to Vijay, leg byes, 1 run, premeditated from Vijay. He was looking to sweep even before Mujeeb loaded into his action, shuffled across and missed it altogether, off the pad and wide of the slip fielder

Nabi to Rahul, no run, more air on this one and Rahul is not tempted, he is content with a tap to cover

Nabi to Rahul, no run, flighted outside off, Rahul plays the forward defence with soft hands

Nabi to Vijay, 1 run, shortens the length and Vijay punches him off the back foot to a deepish mid-off

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, leg-break with a bit of extra bounce, Rahul plays it well in the end, rides the bounce and plays it with soft hands towards the slip fielder

Rashid Khan to Vijay, 1 run, wrong 'un on a fullish length, wrists it easily to long-on

Ahmadzai to Vijay, 1 run, on a length just outside off, Vijay plays that on the up and pushes it past cover, Stanikzai from mid-off backs up and keeps it to a single

Rashid Khan to Vijay, 1 run, googly on the pads, nurdled backward of square, for a single

Rashid Khan to Rahul, no run, missed out there, did Rahul. Half tracker down leg, Rahul failed to put bat on ball

Rashid Khan to Vijay, 1 run, short of length and Vijay rides the bounce nudging it to deep mid-wicket

Ahmadzai to Vijay, 3 runs, similar delivery to the previous one and Vijay picks a different area to play the shot, prods across and uses his wrists to flick it past the mid-on fielder. Mujeeb gives chase and hauls it in just before the rope, three more

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, again shade too wide outside off and an easy leave for Rahul

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, back of a length outside off, Rahul lifts his bat and lets it go

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, thought about it, but then aborted. Short and outside off, Rahul for a second was looking to play the pull shot, but then held himself back and let it go past him

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, fuller and on off, Rahul taps it back to the bowler

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, shortens the length and gets it to tail in late, Rahul was committed to the leave and then had to remove his gloves from the line of the ball because of the inward movement

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, pitched up and Rahul goes full-throttle on the drive, creams it straight to the man at cover. That was hit really hard and either side of the fielder and it would have raced away

Ahmadzai to Rahul, no run, on a length and around off, Rahul presses forward and defends to point