India demolished Afghanistan by 127 runs in the third T20I of the three-match series on September 17 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. The win helped India inflict a 3-0 clean sweep on Afghanistan. This is the 13th occasion India have inflicted a clean sweep over a team in a T20I series. The first instance was when they beat Australia 3-0 in Australia in a three-match T20I series in the lead-up to the ICC Men's T20 World Cup in 2016.
India's opener Abhishek Sharma was the star of the series. The southpaw smashed a record-breaking century in the third T20I, laying the foundation for India's win. Abhishek scored the fastest hundred by a player from an ICC full-member country, taking merely 30 balls to scale the milestone. He hammered 11 sixes and nine fours in his breathtaking knock at a strike rate of 317.64. He was adjudged the Player of the Match (POTM).
Abhishek was also adjudged the Player of the Series as he finished as the leading run-scorer. The 26-year-old aggregated 229 runs in three innings, averaging 76.33 at a strike rate of 269.41 with the help of a hundred and a fifty.
Every time India have whitewashed their opponents in T20Is
| # | Primary Team | Opponent | Venue | Year | Scoreline |
| 1 | India | Australia | Australia | 2016 | 3-0 |
| 2 | India | Sri Lanka | India | 2017 | 3-0 |
| 3 | India | West Indies | India | 2018 | 3-0 |
| 4 | India | West Indies | West Indies | 2019 | 3-0 |
| 5 | India | New Zealand | New Zealand | 2020 | 5-0 |
| 6 | India | New Zealand | India | 2021 | 3-0 |
| 7 | India | West Indies | India | 2022 | 3-0 |
| 8 | India | Sri Lanka | India | 2022 | 3-0 |
| 9 | India | Afghanistan | India | 2024 | 3-0 |
| 10 | India | Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | 2024 | 3-0 |
| 11 | India | Bangladesh | India | 2024 | 3-0 |
| 12 | India | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | 2026 | 3-0 |
| 13 | India | Afghanistan | India | 2026 | 3-0 |
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