{"id":34498,"date":"2026-06-20T08:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/afghanistan-opt-to-bat-reddy-prasidh-and-dubey-return-for-india\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:26:39","slug":"afghanistan-opt-to-bat-reddy-prasidh-and-dubey-return-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/afghanistan-opt-to-bat-reddy-prasidh-and-dubey-return-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan opt to bat; Reddy, Prasidh and Dubey return for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jun 20, 2026, 04:00 AM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p><b>Toss<\/b> <i><b>Afghanistan<\/b> chose to bat vs <b>India<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/afghanistan-40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afghanistan<\/a> won the toss and chose to bat first in Chennai in the third and final ODI of the series against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/india-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>, which they have already lost 2-0. They made four changes, while India made three.<\/p>\n<p>India brought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/nitish-kumar-reddy-1175496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitish Kumar Reddy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/harsh-dubey-1216159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harsh Dubey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/prasidh-krishna-917159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prasidh Krishna<\/a>, which meant there was no place for Harshit Rana, who was brought back into the squad after recovering from a knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>They also named an allrounder-heavy line-up with Reddy batting at No. 6 and Dubey at No. 8. Shubman Gill will remain at No. 3 and Ishan Kishan will take up KL Rahul&#8217;s spot at No. 5. Arshdeep Singh and Kuldeep Yadav were the bowlers who had to make way.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi said the pitch looked dry and hard and hoped to set India a good total, which is what India captain Gill said he would have done too.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan brought in two allrounders and two seam bowlers to their XI: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/mohammad-nabi-25913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Nabi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/azmatullah-omarzai-819429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azmatullah Omarzai<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/fareed-ahmad-568136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fareed Ahmad<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ziaur-rahman-1015399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ziaur Rahman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sediqullah Atal, Nangeyalia Kharote, Mohammad Saleem and Bilal Sami were the players who were left out.<\/p>\n<p><b>India<\/b>: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 3 Shubman Gill (capt), 4 Ishan Kishan (wk), 5 Shreyas Iyer, 6 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Harsh Dubey, 9 Gurnoor Brar, 10 Prasidh Krishna, 11 Prince Yadav<\/p>\n<p><b>Afghanistan<\/b>: 1 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 2 Ibrahim Zadran, 3 Rahmat Shah, 4 Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), 5 Darwish Rasooli, 6 Mohammad Nabi, 7 Azmatullah Omarzai, 8 Rashid Khan, 9 AM Ghazanfar, 10 Ziaur Rahman, 11 Fareed Ahmad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 20, 2026, 04:00 AM ET Toss Afghanistan chose to bat vs India Afghanistan won the toss and chose to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fi%2Fcricket%2Fcricinfo%2F1541027_1296x729.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}