{"id":24636,"date":"2026-09-15T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=24636"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:26:59","slug":"india-vs-afghanistan-2nd-t20i-no-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-again-sanju-samson-retains-place-as-india-make-one-big-change-vs-afghanistan-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=24636","title":{"rendered":"India vs Afghanistan 2nd T20I: No Vaibhav Sooryavanshi again; Sanju Samson retains place as India make one big change vs Afghanistan | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134266042,imgsize-66805,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/sooryavasnhi-iyer-1509.jpg\" alt=\"India vs Afghanistan 2nd T20I: No Vaibhav Sooryavanshi again; Sanju Samson retains place as India make one big change vs Afghanistan\" title=\"India made one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakaravarthy. (Image credit: Agencies)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"India made one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakaravarthy. (Image credit: Agencies)\">India made one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakaravarthy. (Image credit: Agencies)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: India captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shreyas-iyer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shreyas Iyer<\/a> won the toss and opted to field against Afghanistan in the second T20I at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>India won the opening T20I by seven wickets and currently lead the three-match series 1-0.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Varun injured, Bishnoi comes in<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>India made one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakaravarthy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was not included, while <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/sanju-samson\/61837\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanju Samson<\/a> retained his place in the team.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Speaking at the toss, Iyer said: &#8220;We are going to bowl first. You have a fair idea of how the wicket plays, and it gives the bowlers an idea, a little bit of an advantage. It wasn&#8217;t comprehensive because we could have won by a huge margin. As a bowling unit, we could have picked wickets in the middle. Varun is injured and Ravi Bishnoi comes in.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Afghanistan unchanged<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan captain Ibrahim Zadran said his team would also have preferred to bowl first.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>&#8220;We would have bowled first as well. We want to play positive cricket, we didn&#8217;t get a good start that day, but we covered in the middle. We will try to do better tonight. We are playing the same XI.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Afghanistan have made no changes to their playing XI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Playing XIs<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (w), Ibrahim Zadran (c), Sediqullah Atal, Gulbadin Naib, Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>India: Sanju Samson (w), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravi Bishnoi<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-vs-afghanistan\/india-vs-afghanistan-2nd-t20i-no-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-again-sanju-samson-retains-place-as-india-make-one-big-change-vs-afghanistan\/articleshow\/134265922.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India made one change to their playing XI. Ravi Bishnoi replaced the injured Varun Chakaravarthy. 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