india vs afghanistan
IND vs AFG 1st T20I: The first match of the three-match T20 series between India and Afghanistan is being played at IS Bindra PCA Stadium in Mohali. Rohit Sharma is commanding Team India in this series. On the other hand, Ibrahim Zadran is captaining the Afghanistan team. One player has got a chance to debut in this match. This player has become the oldest player to debut in T20 for his country.
This player made his debut in the first match of T20 series
Rahmat Shah has made his debut for Afghanistan in this match being played in Mohali. Rahmat Shah made his debut at the age of 30 years and 189 days. With this, he has become the first Afghanistan cricketer to debut in ODI/T20I after the age of 30. Earlier in 2019, Fazal Niazai had made his debut for Afghanistan at the age of 29 years and 71 days. However, he could not do anything special in his debut match and became the victim of Akshar Patel after scoring 3 runs.
Experience of playing more than 100 ODIs
Rahmat Shah had to wait for a long time to make his debut in T20. He has played 106 ODIs and 7 Test matches for Afghanistan. Rahmat Shah has scored 3589 runs in ODIs at an average of 36.62. During this period he has scored 26 half-centuries and 5 centuries. At the same time, in Test he has scored 424 at an average of 30.28. Which includes 3 half-centuries and 1 century.
Playing 11 of both the teams for the first T20 match-
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Tilak Verma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar.
Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicketkeeper), Ibrahim Zadran (captain), Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb ur Rehman.
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