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Rahul Pandey: Shaheen Afridi had made his mind right from the word go. An inswinging delivery was how he planned to take the Indian skipper out of the equation. Despite taking a couple of boundary blows in his first two overs, he wouldn’t budge. There was an uppish flick that caught the fingertips of the fielder at square leg and then, a very good flick shot off one of his trademark inswinging yorkers. He wasn’t supposed to ditch his plan that early. That left arm angular advantage vs the right hander was how he’d got both Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul in Dubai a couple of years back. And so he went for it again, holding his length back just a tad bit. A three delivery setup. Back of a length ball outside off, length ball outside off, until one nipped in and went between Rohit’s bat and pad. Off stump displaying his handiwork. India one down.