Team India has reached the Super 8 by winning 3 consecutive matches in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. Then the fourth and last match of the series against Canada was canceled due to rain. After which now Team India is ready to play directly in the Super 8. Team India started its Super 8 campaign with a match against Afghanistan. The match will start at 8 pm. It was tossed even before that. Team India won the toss. Captain Rohit Sharma decided to bat. Let’s know who is included in the playing eleven of both the teams.
Changes in both playing XI
For this match, both Team India and Afghanistan have made changes in their playing eleven. Team India captain Rohit Sharma has made 1 change. Rohit has included Kuldeep Yadav in the team according to the situation. So Mohammad Siraj is out. This is Kuldeep Yadav’s first match in this World Cup. Afghanistan has appointed Hazratullah Zazai in place of Karim Janat.
Performance of Team India-Afghanistan in the league round
Team India won 3 consecutive matches by defeating Ireland, Pakistan and America respectively. The fourth and last match was lost due to rain. Thus the score remained 1-1. In this way, Team India earned 7 points from 4 matches in the league round. Afghanistan won 3 out of 4 matches. They had to face defeat in the last match of the series against the Windies.
Team India’s playing XI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dubey, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah
Afghanistan’s playing XI: Rashid Khan (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran, Najibullah Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Umarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Noor Ahmed, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazalhaq Farooqi.
