Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to field first in the second T20I at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore on January 14. Rohit made two changes to the side. After missing the first T20I due to personal reasons, Virat Kohli took his place at no.3 replacing Tilak Varma. Also, Yashasvi Jaiswal who did not open with Rohit due to a sore groin replaced Shubman Gill as an opener.
“We are gonna bowl first. No particular reason. Just nature of the ground especially the small boundaries. The things we were talking in our meeting, we were able to come out and execute that in the first game. We asked specific roles from the guys and they performed accordingly. Not much, they don't have any baggage and it is all about backing them, allow them to be free on the ground. We will do things keeping the WC in mind but we know results are also important. Kohli and Jaiswal back for Gill and Tilak,” Rohit said after winning the toss.
Afghanistan captain Ibrahim Zadran made just one change to the side. Rahmat Shah who made his T20I debut in the previous game has been replaced by spinner Noor Ahmad.
“We will try to bat well today and put runs on the board. Again lost the toss and I would have wanted to bowl first. We spoke about the first game and worked in the net session yesterday. We did not have a good start with the bat in the last game, we spoke and hopefully we can give a good start today. Rahmat is not playing. Noor Ahmad is playing,” Zadran said at the coin toss.
India Playing XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar
Afghanistan Playing XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman
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