New Delhi: India (Indian Cricket Team) will play the away series in their own country. India will play a three-match T20I series against Afghanistan. That too in the field of Delhi as the home ground of Afghanistan (Afghanistan Cricket Board). Afghanistan can play against India at Arun Jaitley International Stadium in Delhi, Afghanistan will use Arun Jaitley Stadium as their home ground in this series. The final schedule has not been announced yet. Nothing has been reported by the two boards either. But as far as it is heard, this one-day series of three matches is to be held on September 13, 15 and 17.
Afghanistan have been using India’s Arun Jaitley Stadium as their home ground for many years. But if the series is held next September, it will mark another milestone. This is the first time that the Afghanistan cricket team will play a series against India on Indian soil as the host. Afghanistan had earlier hosted many international matches in Lucknow, Dehradun and Greater Noida. But this is the first time that the Afghan Cricket Board is going to organize a full-fledged bilateral series on Indian soil. The series is likely to be held between India’s Test tour to Sri Lanka and this year’s Asian Games in Japan.
India and Afghanistan last met last June. Afghanistan cricket team toured India for service. Shubman Gill’s team won the only Test by an innings and 300 runs. And in the ODI series, Team India won by a margin of 3-0.
Despite winning the T20 World Cup this year itself, the recent T20 series in the white ball format of the Indian team has not gone well. They had to lose the series against England after Ireland. Currently playing T20 series against Zimbabwe Indian team. Durant snatched victory in the first match itself Shreyas Iyerteam of They won by 7 wickets. He has led India 1-0 in the series of the match. Mayank Yadav and Prince Yadav caught the eye with the ball in the match. Both took 2 wickets each. On the other hand, Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored the first fifty of his international cricket career with the bat. Vaibhav hit four boundaries and four sixes in the 19-ball innings.
