Afghanistan LWLLL (last five completed games, most recent first)
India WWWWW
In the spotlight: Washington Sundar and Ismat Alam
India had rested Jasprit Bumrah in the one-off T20I against Japan and played Arshdeep Singh and Yash Thakur as their quick options apart from legspinner Ravi Bishnoi and spin-bowling allrounders Axar Patel and Washington Sundar. India will now have to decide whom to leave out for Bumrah. The other question will be if India want to give Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a game early in the tournament, although Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson look undroppable given the runs they scored in the series against Afghanistan.
India (probable): 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Axar Patel, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Yash Thakur/Arshdeep Singh, 11 Jasprit Bumrah.
Against Nepal, Afghanistan gave a T20I debut to Faisal Shinozada who top-scored along with the experienced Najibullah Zadran, the only batters who scored in double-digits in the game.
Afghanistan (probable): 1 Mohammad Akram, 2 Hassan Eisakhil, 3 Karim Janat, 4 Darwish Rasooli (capt), 5 Najibullah Zadran, 6 Mohammad Ishaq (wk), 7 Ismat Alam, 8 Nangeyalia Khan, 9 Abdollah Ahmadzai, 10 Faridoon Dawoodzai, 11 Arab Gul.
Heavy rain is expected in Nisshin on Monday with the possibility that this game could be washed out. In that case, India will go through because of their higher seeding based on the ICC T20I rankings. The last two games at the ground were also washed out, on Friday.
