With Rohit Sharma being rested for the match, Kohli returned to the top of the order for the 9th time in T20Is. Kohli took a few balls to get his eye in, his first five balls reading 1, dot, dot, dot, 1, but very quickly switched to positive mode. In the sixth over of the innings, Mujeeb-urRahman got a taste of the mayhem that was to come, being driven past mid-off, swept to square-leg for fours and then clattered over long-on for six. In the eighth over, Kohli made a mistake.
