Harsh Dubey, Gurnoor Brar handed maiden ODI caps as India opt to field

India handed maiden ODI caps to Harsh Dubey and Gurnoor Brar up of their clash against Afghanistan, with the 2 youngsters marking a peculiar milestone successful their careers.Dubey received his headdress from KL Rahul, portion India skipper Shubman Gill presented Gurnoor Brar with his debut headdress earlier the commencement of play.

After earlier concerns implicit the weather, conditions improved importantly and the skies cleared successful clip for the match. The contention would beryllium reduced to 25 overs per side, mounting up what promises to beryllium an intriguing encounter. Under the revised playing conditions, each squad tin usage a maximum of 5 bowlers, with each bowler allowed to present up to 5 overs. The batting powerplay volition past for the archetypal 5 overs of each innings.At the toss, Gill called correctly and elected to tract first, citing the overcast conditions and the anticipation of aboriginal assistance for the seamers."We volition vessel first. It's a spot overcast, truthful the bowlers mightiness get immoderate help. Looks similar a bully surface, bully wicket to bat on, could beryllium thing aboriginal connected for the pacers. It's each astir trying antithetic combinations to spot what works for us. We're playing astir 15-20 ODIs earlier the World Cup, truthful it's astir trying things.

We're going with 2 debutants. Jaiswal, Prince and Kuldeep miss out," Gill said.Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi admitted that his broadside would besides person preferred to vessel archetypal but remained assured astir putting up a beardown performance."We wanted to vessel first, but it's not successful our hands; we request to commencement good with the bat. We did precise good successful the caller past. This is the archetypal clip we're playing India successful their location conditions, we're excited and hopefully we'll bash well.

There are 3 seamers and 3 spinners, 1 seamer is an all-rounder," Shahidi said.With 2 debutants successful the Indian XI, favourable upwind conditions returning and a shortened 25-over format adding an other furniture of unpredictability, the signifier is acceptable for an absorbing contest.Teams:Afghanistan (Playing XI): Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Ikram Alikhil(w), Rashid Khan, Mohammad Saleem Safi, AM Ghazanfar, Zia Ur Rahman SharifiIndia (Playing XI): Shubman Gill(c), Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan(w), Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Gurnoor Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna