India, Sept. 14 -- Arshdeep Singh choked Afghanistan with relentless accuracy and a slew of variations while Abhishek Sharma tightened the noose with a brutal 82 as India hardly broke a sweat in their seven-wicket victory in the opening T20I here on Sunday.

Arshdeep set the platform with superb figures of 3 for 19 which included 16 dot deliveries out of the 24 legal ones that he sent down, helping India restrict the Afghans to 156 for 8.

The chase turned out to be a walk in the park as Abhishek hit sixes for fun, seven in all in his 32-ball-knock, with India completing the chase in 13.4 overs to go 1-0 up in the three-match series.

If there were any doubts about Abhishek's poor form, he laid them to rest with some lusty hits which enth...