Today, Team India will play on home soil for the first time in the new year, i.e. 2024. The Afghan team is ahead but the Indian team will not make the mistake of taking it lightly. The first match of the three-match T20 series will be played between India and Afghanistan at the IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali today.
However, two star players will not be seen in the first T20. Firstly, Indian Virat Kohli and secondly, Afghan superstar Rashid Khan. Kohli will be part of Team India from the second T20. While Rashid is not featured in the entire T20 series.
This is India's last T20 series before the T20 World Cup 2024. Captain Rohit Sharma is making a comeback in this format after a long time. He last played T20 International in T20 World Cup 2022. After this T20 series, Indian team will play a five-match Test series with England and then IPL 2024 will be organized.
The first T20 match between India and Afghanistan will be played at the IS Bindra Stadium of the Punjab Cricket Association in Mohali. Toss will play an important role in this match as there is a lot of dew to be seen. If we talk about the pitch report of Mohali, the batsmen are having fun here. It is very easy to score runs on this ground.
Our match prediction meter says that Team India has the upper hand in this game and the Rohit brigade has a 99 percent chance of winning. However, if the Afghan team chases the goal and the score is not too big, then a surprise can be seen.
Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Sanju Samson/Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Yadav/Ravi Bishnoi and Mukesh Kumar.
Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran (captain), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Umarzai, Mujeeb ur Rehman, Qais Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Naveen-ul-Haq and Fazalhaq Farooqui.