Ind vs Afg – Jasprit Bumrah rested for Afghanistan Test; KL Rahul replaces Rishabh Pant as vice-captain

Ind vs Afg – Jasprit Bumrah rested for Afghanistan Test; KL Rahul replaces Rishabh Pant as vice-captain


Jasprit Bumrah has been rested from India‘s one-off Test match in opposition to Afghanistan in June, whereas KL Rahul have changed Rishabh Pant as the vice-captain of the 15-member squad that can be led by Shubman Gill.
quick bowlers Prince Yadav and Brar, and Dubey, obtained their maiden name-ups to the ODI squad for the three matches in opposition to Afghanistan. Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya made their comebacks to the format, whereas Dhruv Jurel, Ayush Badoni, Pant, Jadeja, Harshit Rana and Mohammed Siraj had been ignored from the squad that misplaced the house ODI sequence 2-1 to New Zealand in January.
Jadeja picked up a niggle in direction of the again finish of IPL 2026whereas Rana and Akash Deep missed all the season as a consequence of accidents.

Brar, 25, has performed solely 18 first-class video games and 9 List A matches, however has already represented India A. He took 11 wickets in eight video games in final season’s Vijay Hazare Trophy throughout Punjab’s run to the semi-finals. He was additionally the joint-high wicket-taker with eight scalps when India A hosted Australia A for two 4-day matches in Lucknow in September 2025.

Suthar, 23, brings some extra expertise, having performed 29 first-class video games for 129 wickets at a median of 25.76, and has been an everyday in India A sides throughout the three codecs. In 4-day video games, he performed in opposition to South Africa A in Bengaluru in October-November 2025. He additionally performed for Rest of India in opposition to Vidarbha within the Irani Cup earlier than that, the place he took 5 wickets within the match and in addition scored an unbeaten 56 at No. 8 within the second innings.

The home series against Afghanistan begins with the Test match in New Chandigarh from June 6 to 10, adopted by three ODIs in Dharamsala, Lucknow and Chennai on June 14, 17 and 20. India and Afghanistan have performed just one Test in opposition to one another beforehand, in Bengaluru in 2018which led to a victory for the hosts by an innings and 262 runs inside two days.

India Test squad vs Afghanistan

Shubman Gill (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (vc) Sai Sudharsan, Rishabh Pant, Devdutt Padikkal, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Brar, Harsh Dubey, Dhruv Jurel

India ODI squad vs Afghanistan

Shubman Gill (capt), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer (vc), KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Prince Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Harsh Dubey

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *