Asia Cup 2018: India vs Afghanistan thriller ends in a tie- how it happened in pictures

India and Afghanistan met in their final Super Four match in the Asia Cup on Tuesday (Image: AFP)

India made five changes resting Rohit, Shikhar, Bhuvi, Bumrah and Chahal. Deepak Chahar made his ODI debut (Twitter: BCCI)

MS Dhoni captained his 200th ODI for India (Image: PTT)

India made a good start as top order Afghan batsmen, except Mohammad Shahzad, fell early (Image: PTI)

Mohammad Shahzad, however, was playing the innings of his life. He reached his century with Afghanistan's score just at 131 (Image: PTI)

Afghanistan's leading ODI scorer Mohammed Nabi helped his team with a fifty. He added some important runs with Zardan (Image: PTI)

Nabi fell after scoring 64 (Image: AFP)

Opener Mohammad Shahzad (124 off 116 balls) was the star as Afghanistan posted a competitive total of 252 for the loss of 8 wickets (Image: PTI)

India began on a positive note with openers KL Rahul and Ambati Rayudu scoring brilliant fifties. The duo added 110 runs to the opening wicket partnership (Image: AFP)

Rahul fell for 60 to Rashid Khan, he used a review but declared LBW (Image: PTI)

Nabi sent back Ambati Rayudu for 57 (Image: PTI) 

Dhoni, who was playing his 200th ODI as a captain, got out LBW on 8 runs off Javed Ahmadi. However, the replay showed that the ball was missing the leg stump (Image: PTI)

Dinesh Karthik took India close adding some important runs with Kedhar Jadhav before the latter got run out for 19 runs (Image: AFP)

Dinesh Karthik (44) was dismissed by Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi in the 40th over (Image: AFP)

Deepak Chahar batted with Ravindra Jadeja to take Indian close before he was dismissed for 12 (Image: AFP)

Needing just seven runs off the final over, the Indian team scored six runs off the first four balls to level the score. But on the fifth ball, Rashid Khan got the better of Jadeja and bowled the Men in Blue for 252 (Image: AFP)

The match was the 36th tie in 4046 ODIs (Image: AFP)