India-Afghanistan have clashed twice in T20 World Cup so far, after 9 years they will face to face again today

ICC T20 WC 2021, IND vs AFG Preview: Today’s second match will be played between India and Afghanistan in the 2021 T20 World Cup. This match will be played at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi from 7.30 pm. This match is very important for Team India. While the Indian team has not yet opened its winning account in the tournament, Afghanistan’s team has registered two wins so far. If India has to keep its hopes of reaching the semi-finals alive, then it will have to register a win today in any case.

head to head

Teams of India and Afghanistan will face each other for the third time in T20 International. Earlier, the match was played between India and Afghanistan in 2010 T20 World Cup and 2012 T20 World Cup. Team India won on both the occasions. In such a situation, Team India completely dominates the Afghanistan team in head to head.

In 2010, Afghanistan made its T20 World Cup debut against India itself. In this match, India won by seven wickets. After this, a match was played between the two teams in 2012, in which India won by 23 runs. For the first time since 2012, both the teams will clash in this format today.

Probable playing XI of Team India- KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (capt), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur, Rahul Chahar and Jasprit Bumrah.

Probable playing XI of Afghanistan- Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Usman Ghani, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi (c), Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Karim Janat/Mujib ur Rehman, Hamid Hasan and Naveen-ul-Haq.