the 30 year old Indian National Cricket Team All-rounder Shivam Dube was the shining light for his team in the second T20I of the three-match series against the Afghanistan National Cricket Team at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore on Sunday, January 14.

Dube was one of the key reasons behind the Rohit Sharma-led team’s victory in the first two T20I matches against Ibrahim Zadran-led Afghanistan. He put up a marvelous performance with both bat and ball in both the matches and helped India seal victories and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

In both the matches, Shivam Dube took one wicket and remained unbeaten to lead India to victory. In the first game, he scored an unbeaten 60 runs and in the second, he scored 63 runs off 32 balls, with 5 fours and 4 sixes.

Dube played wonderful knocks in the second T20I in Indore and made the bowlers look clueless. He timed the ball perfectly and smashed some sensational boundaries in the match. His finest moment came when he launched an attack on veteran Mohammad Nabi, hitting three consecutive sixes to eliminate Afghanistan from the match.

Many expected him to end the match with a boundary, but it did not happen as he took a single-leg dismissal off the fourth ball of the 16th over, which was bowled by Fazalhaq Farooqi, to complete the easy chase.

After the match, two Afghan players, who seemed impressed with the all-rounder, were seen checking Shivam Dube’s bat. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared the clip of India’s match-winning moment on their X and in the video, the Afghanistan stars are seen saying something to Dube while he was checking his bat. Look here:

#TeamIndia Win the second T20I by 6 wickets and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

Control panel – #INDvAFG@IDFCFIRSTBank pic.twitter.com/OQ10nOPFs7

-BCCI (@BCCI) January 14, 2024

The credit of my success goes to MS Dhoni and CSK – Shivam Dube

After winning the match for the Indian national cricket team, Shivam Dube was seen interacting with the commentators. During the interaction, he credited his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and captain MS Dhoni for his success. He said that the legendary captain Dhoni and the CSK management gave him confidence and provided him support.

“The credit for my success goes to MS Dhoni and CSK. Mahi bhai (Dhoni) gave me confidence that I could do it, the CSK management told me that they believed in me and always had faith that I could perform,” Shivam Dube said after finishing the match while speaking on JioCinema.

Meanwhile, Indian national cricket team captain Rohit Sharma was highly impressed with Dube’s performance and praised the all-rounder. Rohit said Shivam Dube is a powerful guy and can take on the spinners with ease. He said:

“Dube is a big guy, very powerful and can take on spinners. That is his role and he came out and played two crucial innings for us.”

Dube will next be seen in action when India takes on Afghanistan in a rubber match on January 17 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Bengaluru.