India won the loss in Greater Noida, and made a fine start, with Paul Stirling and Kevin OBrien putting on 63 for the first wicket, until OBrien, who had made 35, including 2 sixes, was bowled by Mujeeb ur-Rahman. Then Stirling combined with Andrew Balbirnie, and the pair added 48 before Stirling was caught and bowled by Rashid Khan. He had scored 60, including 2 sixes and 8 fours.
Balbirnie was the next man to fall, bowled by Rashid for 29, as the scoring rate began to slow. George Delaney and Harry Tector put on 20, but Delaney was bowled by Shapoor Zadran, and then, in the next over, Lorcan Tucker was caught by Mujeeb, Rashid again the bowler. Tector and Simi Singh added a further 9, but Singh was run out off the second ball of the last over, leaving Tector, in the company of George Dockrell, to help his side to a final total of 172 6 from their 20 overs. Tector, with one six to his name, was 29 not out at the end.
Rashid was the best of the Afghan bowlers with 3 for 22.
In reply Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmanullah Gurbaz shared a stand of 54 for the first Afghan wickets, until both men in the space of four balls bowled by Singh. First to go was Gurbaz, lbw for 28, including one six, and then Hazratullah was bowled for 23, having struck 2 sixes of his own.
Captain Asghar Afghan was run out by Singh without adding to the score, before Karim Janat and Samiullah Shinwari added 15 for the 4th wicket. Janat was then run out by Tector, but Shinwari and Najibullah Zadran then put on 63 for the fifth wicket, until Shinwari, who had scored 28, was bowled by Boyd Rankin.
At that stage, with the home side 133 5 at the end of the 15th over, the umpires took the players off the field for rain, which was so heavy that no resumption of play was possible, and Afghanistan were declared winners on the D/L method. Najibullah finished unbeaten on 42, having struck 2 sixes in his innings.