Toss Afghanistan chose to bat vs India
They also named an allrounder-heavy line-up with Reddy batting at No. 6 and Dubey at No. 8. Shubman Gill will remain at No. 3 and Ishan Kishan will take up KL Rahul’s spot at No. 5. Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav were the bowlers who had to make way.
Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi said the pitch looked dry and hard and hoped to set India a good total, which is what India captain Gill said he would have done too.
Sediqullah Atal, Nangeyalia Kharote, Mohammad Saleem and Bilal Sami were the players who were left out.
India: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 3 Shubman Gill (capt), 4 Ishan Kishan (wk), 5 Shreyas Iyer, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Harsh Dubey, 9 Gurnoor Brar, 10 Prasidh Krishna, 11 Prince Yadav
Afghanistan: 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Rahmat Shah, 4 Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), 5 Darwish Rasooli, 6 Mohammad Nabi, 7 Azmatullah Omarzai, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 AM Ghazanfar, 10 Ziaur Rahman, 11 Fareed Ahmad
