Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nHarsh Dubey of Sunrisers Hyderabad celebrates the wicket of Virat Kohli. Photo by Pankaj Nangia\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Afghanistan spinner Rashid Khan will also miss a one-off Test against India, advised to cut down on long-format cricket to manage his workload as he plays in several T20 franchise leagues.<\/p>\n
Hashmatullah Shahidi will lead the side, while Nangyal Kharoti, Bilal Sami and Rahmanullah Zadran were selected in the Test squad for the first time. Leg-spinner Qais Ahmad also makes his return to the side.<\/p>\n
Since gaining Test status in 2017, Afghanistan have faced India in the game\u2019s longest format once, a crushing innings defeat in Bengaluru in 2018 that lasted just two days.<\/p>\n
The lone Test between India and Afghanistan gets underway at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium on Saturday at 2pm AEST.<\/p>\n
HOW TO WATCH<\/p>\n
Every ball of India\u2019s lone Test against Banglsdesh will be shown live and ad-break free on Foxtel and streaming platform Kayo Sports.<\/p>\n
SESSION TIMES<\/p>\n
All times AEST<\/p>\n
Morning session: 2pm-4pm<\/p>\n
Afternoon session: 4.40pm-6.40pm<\/p>\n
Evening session: 7pm-9pm <\/p>\n
SQUADSIndia<\/p>\n
Shubman Gill (capt), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (vice-capt), Sai Sudharsan, Rishabh Pant, Devdutt Padikkal, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Brar, Harsh Dubey, Dhruv Jurel.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan<\/p>\n
Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Abdul Malik, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rahmanullah Zadran, Afsar Zazai, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Nangyal Kharoti, Qais Ahmad, Bilal Sami, Zia Ur Rahman Sharifi, Saleem Safi <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India have rested pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja for this week\u2019s one-off Test against Afghanistan,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-714231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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