Chennai, June 20 -- After pacer Prasidh Krishna cleaned up the top order with a fiery four wicket burst in his opening spell, skipper Hasmatullah Shahidi led from the front with a classic century, his first in 50-over format to guide Afghanistan to 218 all out in the third ODI against India at the M A Chidambaram Stadium here on Saturday.
The visitors got off to a disastrous start as Prasidh breathed fire on a hot and humid day breaking the back of the Afghan top order, before southpaw Shahidi held the innings together, crafted his maiden century (previous highest was 97), to inject some life into the innings.
Afghanistan collapsed on either side of the fifth (105 run partnership) and sixth wicket (57 runs) stands, collapsing from 198 for...