India will clash with Afghanistan for the series opener at Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium in Mohali. The match will start at 7 pm

So far, both teams have not played many T20I matches. The "Men in Blue" have faced the "Afghans" in just four T20I matches and have come victorious on four occasions. One match between the teams ended with no result

Rohit Sharma and his team will look forward to dominating all three matches as T20I series against Afghanistan will be India's last T20I series before the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024

The "Men in Blue" will miss the services of their stalwart batsman Virat Kohli for the first T20I. He has opted out of the first clash against Afghanistan due to family reasons

The Indian team selectors have picked young talented Yashasvi Jaiswal to fill the void of Virat Kohli in the team. He will open the innings with star Indian opening batsman Rohit Sharma. So dar, Jaiswal has featured in 15 T20I matches and has scored 430 runs

The Indian team fans will keep tabs on their skipper Rohit Sharma as he will be playing his first T20I match after 14 months. The right-hander played the last T20I match on November 10 2022 against England. In that match, Sharma scored 27 runs in 28 balls including 4 fours

Afghanistan's mighty spinner Rashid Khan will miss the T20Is against India. He underwent surgery in November 2023 and is still not fully recovered

India Squad:

Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, 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

Afghanistan Squad:

Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Qais Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Noor Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem Safi, Karim Janat, Ikram Alikhil, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Rahmat Shah, Gulbadin Naib