Team India: Indian cricket team has played many series with Afghanistan cricket team till now. But till now he has not played any series in Afghanistan. Team India played its last series with the Afghanistan team in India earlier this year, in which it won 3-0. During that time, Rohit Sharma was handling the responsibility of leading Team India.
However, soon the Indian team can be seen playing a series with the Afghanistan cricket team in Afghanistan and Shubman Gill can take the responsibility of captaincy in that series. So let us know in detail about this series going to be held between India and Afghanistan.
Team India will play series with Afghanistan
Let us tell you that Team India has to play a series of 3 T20 matches with Afghanistan cricket team in Afghanistan. However, this series will be played in September 2026. But discussions regarding this have already started. Amidst these discussions, a big news is coming out, according to which after the end of T20 World Cup 2026, T20 captaincy will be taken away from Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill will become the all format captain.
Shubman Gill can become all format captain
According to information received in media reports, due to Suryakumar Yadav’s old age, he will be removed from the post of captain of the Indian T20 team after the end of T20 World Cup 2026. In such a situation, the responsibility of leading Team India will be handed over to Shubman Gill. Although it has not been announced officially yet. But this can happen. Since for some time now BCCI has been preparing Gill as the next captain.
India’s 15-member team could be something like this
Shubman Gill, (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Avesh Khan and Nitish Kumar Reddy.
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