Teenage batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has retained his place within the Indian cricket team for the three-match collection in opposition to Afghanistan in New Delhi from September 13 to 17.
Shreyas Iyer will proceed to be the Indian T20 captain, with Tilak Varma serving as his deputy, whereas Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana headline the tempo assault.
Wicketkeeper-batter Sanju Samson returns after lacking India’s tour of Zimbabwe in July, whereas spinner Varun Chakaravarthy can also be again after an harm dominated him out of that collection.
Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar have all been included topic to health clearance.
Sooryavanshi, 15, was one in all India’s standout performers throughout their 3-0 T20I collection sweep of Zimbabwe.
The left-hander grew to become the youngest participant to attain a half-century in males’s T20 internationals with an 18-ball fifty within the collection opener. He adopted it up with 81 off 49 balls within the third T20I and was named Participant of the Sequence.
India’s squad for the Afghanistan collection options eight modifications from the group that accomplished the Zimbabwe collection.
Samson, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Chakaravarthy, Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana come into the squad.
Suryansh Shedge, Rinku Singh, Harsh Dubey, Prince Yadav, Yash Thakur, Ashok Sharma, Mayank Yadav and Prabhsimran Singh miss out.
The 15-member squad can also be similar to the one India named for the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, the place the defending champions will likely be led by Shreyas Iyer.
The Afghanistan collection will likely be India’s last T20I project earlier than the Asian Games males’s cricket competitors begins on September 24.
India will head into the collection on the again of the 3-0 victory over Zimbabwe. The reigning T20 world champions are additionally the top-ranked group within the T20I rankings.
Afghanistan would be the designated residence group for the collection, regardless of all three matches being performed on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
The primary India vs Afghanistan T20 will likely be performed on September 13, adopted by the second on September 15 and the third on September 17.
India squad for Afghanistan T20 collection 2026
Indian nationwide cricket group: Shreyas Iyer (c), Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Tilak Varma (vc), Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar*, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah*, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana*
*Topic to health clearance.
