IND vs AFG: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has selected the teams for the only Test against Afghanistan to be played on June 6 and the three ODIs to be played starting from June 14. The regular captain Shubman Gill will lead the two squads, whereas KL Rahul has been named vice-captain of the Test squad and Shreyas Iyer the vice-captain of the ODI squad.
After the announcement of the squads, the biggest news is that Rishabh Pant has been left out of the ODI squad once again, while Ishan Kishan has made his way back into the ODI side after being away from it for quite some time.
Apart from that, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been included in the ODI squad, along with Hardik Pandya, who missed the 2026 IPL season. Nonetheless, Rohit and Hardik’s inclusion in the ODI squad is conditional on their fitness.
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IND vs AFG: Four Young Players Given an Opportunity
Four new players have found themselves a place in the teams that will be playing in the only Test match and the three ODI matches against Afghanistan: Prince Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Harsh Dubey, and Manav Suthar.
Of these four, Brar and Harsh Dubey have been selected in both Test and ODI teams, while Prince Yadav is a part of the ODI team only and Manav Suthar in the Test team alone. With this selection, these four players will now get an opportunity to play their first international matches against Afghanistan.
IND vs AFG Schedule for the Afghanistan Tour of India
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June 6: 1st Test, New Chandigarh (9:30 AM)
June 14: 1st ODI, Dharamshala (1:30 PM)
June 17: 2nd ODI, Lucknow (1:30 PM)
June 20: 3rd ODI, Chennai (1:30 PM)
Indian Squad for the IND vs AFG Series
Indian Squad for the Test: Shubman Gill (Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (Vice-Captain), Sai Sudharsan, Rishabh Pant, Devdutt Padikkal, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Harsh Dubey, and Dhruv Jurel (Wicketkeeper).
Indian Squad for the ODI Series: Shubman Gill (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (Vice-Captain), KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Prince Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Harsh Dubey.
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