Varun Chakravarthy, who injured his hamstring during the T20I series in England in July and was withdrawn from the Zimbabwe tour, is also back in the squad. Rinku Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Harsh Dubey, Suryansh Shedge, Ashok Sharma, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav and Yash Thakur were the players not included in the team that toured Zimbabwe.
India will play Afghanistan in three T20Is on September 13, 15 and 17. Although the games are being played in Delhi, Afghanistan is the official host of this bilateral series.
Team India for Afghanistan T20Is
Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy*, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar*, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah*, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana*
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