India Vs Afghanistan T-20 Squad

India Vs Afghanistan T-20 Squad

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India Vs Afghanistan T-20 Squad is out, India will host Afghanistan for a three-match T-20 series. The first match will be played at I.S. Bindra PCA stadium in Mohali on 11 January.

Less than six months before they kick start their T20 World Cup campaign, India will play their last T20 series in the lead-up – three matches against Afghanistan at home.2nd match will play in Indore and India will host Afghanistan at Bangalore for the final match of the series. On 7th January BCCI announced the T-20 squad against Afghanistan.

The big change in the squad is the return of skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli who’ll be featuring in the format for the first time since the T20 World Cup in Australia in 2022.

India Vs Afghanistan T-20 Squad list

INDIAN T-20 Squad

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.

Experts Aakash Chopra Questions on Twitter about some Key Players like Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer are missing from the squad.

Afghanistan T-20 Squad

Ibrahim Zadran (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (WK), Ikram Alikhil (WK), Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Azmatullah Omarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Fareed Ahmad, Naveen Ul Haq, Noor Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem, Qais Ahmad, Gulbadin Naib and Rashid Khan.

Virat Kohli will not be available for the first T-20

Indian Head Coach Rahul Dravid confirmed that Virat Kohli has opted out of the game owing to personal reasons but shall be available for the last two matches in Indore and Bangalore. Head coach Rahul Dravid also confirmed in the pre-match press conference that captain Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal will be the two openers for India. Indian team can give a chance to youngsters like Tilak Verma who may play at the position of no.3 in the batting order.

It may be a final opportunity for Tilak Varma to mark an impression in Indian colors ahead of the T20 World Cup. Varma, who made his debut for India last year, has been a regular number three in the series against West Indies, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. In 14 innings, the southpaw has amassed 310 runs at a strike rate of 141.

With Kohli likely to bat at three upon his return and Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, and Rinku Singh likely to make up for the remainder of the batting lineup for the T20 World Cup this summer, the game in Mohali is indeed an important one for Tilak. Shivam Dube is the only Fast bowling all-rounder at Indian Squad he is probably in the playing eleven. Axar Patel and Ravi Bishnoi will likely be the two spinners, while the pace department will have the likes of Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, and Mukesh Kumar.

India has two wicket-keeper options, Sanju Samson and Jitesh Sharma. Jitesh Sharma has an attacking approach in the T20 format. Jitesh Sharma can play at the lower middle order in batting and management also shows trust in his abilities. Sanju Samson, a more experienced keeper-batter alternate with 24 outings under his belt. Sanju can also play in the top order and the middle order. Indian Team management is likely to give Jitesh a longer rope ahead of the T20 World Cup. Adding another pinch hitter lower down the order as opposed to a top-order batting alternative – of which there is no dearth already – in Samson, the former seems like a more suited choice.

India vs Afghanistan Head-to-Head in T-20

Total Matches played: 5

India won: 4

Afghanistan won: 0

No result: 1

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