Afghanistan will take on India in the first match of the three-game T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday, September 13.
Afghanistan last played the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 in February and bowed out in the group stage. Meanwhile, India, captained by Shreyas Iyer, secured a 3-0 T20I series win over Zimbabwe in July 2026. It would be an exciting contest between these two top-class sides.
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1, Match Details
Match: Afghanistan vs India, T20I Series 2026, Match 1
Time & Date: 7:00 PM IST, Sunday, September 13
Venue: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1 Probable XIs
Afghanistan
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran (c), Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi
India
Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1 Pitch Report
With the average first-innings score at this venue being 171 across seven games in the IPL 2026 season, we can expect batters to come out all guns blazing. Six out of seven games saw the chasing sides come out on top.
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1 Top Picks
Ishan Kishan
Ishan Kishan has accumulated 145 runs from three innings at an average of 48.33 on the Zimbabwe tour.
Azmatullah Omarzai
Azmatullah Omarzai scored 89 runs and scalped nine wickets in four games in the recent T20 World Cup 2026 campaign.
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1 Captain picks
Abhishek Sharma
Explosive opening batter Abhishek Sharma couldn’t make it big on the recent Zimbabwe tour. However, we can expect him to turn the tables in this game.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Sooryavanshi amassed 151 runs in three innings at an average of 50.33 with 15 fours and nine sixes on the recent Zimbabwe tour.
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1 Head-to-Head Dream11 team
Abhishek Sharma (c), Ibrahim Zadran, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (vc), Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Axar Patel, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh
AFG vs IND, T20I Series 2026, Match 1 Grand League Dream11 team
Abhishek Sharma, Ibrahim Zadran, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (c), Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma, Azmatullah Omarzai (vc), Axar Patel, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh
