Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24

The Afghanistan cricket team toured India in January 2024 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1][2][3] The series marked the first time these nations engaged in a multi-match white-ball series as prior to this series, the Afghan cricket team had visited India to play a one-off test match with the Indian cricket team in 2018.^[4] The series formed part of both teams' preparation for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.^[5][6]

Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24
	India	Afghanistan
Dates	11 – 17 January 2024
Captains	Rohit Sharma	Ibrahim Zadran
Twenty20 International series
Results	India won the 3-match series 3–0
Most runs	Shivam Dube (124)	Gulbadin Naib (112)
Most wickets	Axar Patel (4)	Fareed Ahmad (3)
Player of the series	Shivam Dube (Ind)

Squads

India[7]	Afghanistan[8]
Rohit Sharma (c) Ravi Bishnoi Shivam Dube Shubman Gill Yashasvi Jaiswal Avesh Khan Virat Kohli Mukesh Kumar Axar Patel Sanju Samson (wk) Jitesh Sharma (wk) Arshdeep Singh Rinku Singh Washington Sundar Tilak Varma Kuldeep Yadav	Ibrahim Zadran (c) Fareed Ahmad Noor Ahmad Qais Ahmad Ikram Alikhil (wk) Sharafuddin Ashraf Fazalhaq Farooqi Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Naveen-ul-Haq Karim Janat Rashid Khan Gulbadin Naib Mohammad Nabi Azmatullah Omarzai Mujeeb Ur Rahman Mohammad Saleem Rahmat Shah Najibullah Zadran Hazratullah Zazai

On 10 January 2024, Rashid Khan was ruled out of Afghanistan's squad because of not recovering from a lower-back surgery.^[9]

T20I Series

1st T20I

11 January 2024 19:00 (N) Scorecard

Afghanistan  158/5 (20 overs)	v	India 159/4 (17.3 overs)
Mohammad Nabi 42 (27) Axar Patel 2/23 (4 overs)		Shivam Dube 60* (40) Mujeeb Ur Rahman 2/21 (4 overs)

India won by 6 wickets Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Shivam Dube (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Rahmat Shah (Afg) made his T20I debut.

2nd T20I

14 January 2024 19:00 (N) Scorecard

Afghanistan  172 (20 overs)	v	India 173/4 (15.4 overs)
Gulbadin Naib 57 (35) Arshdeep Singh 3/32 (4 overs)		Yashasvi Jaiswal 68 (34) Karim Janat 2/13 (2 overs)

India won by 6 wickets Holkar Stadium, Indore Umpires: Rohan Pandit (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Axar Patel (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Rohit Sharma (Ind) became the first male cricketer to play 150 T20Is.^[10]

3rd T20I

17 January 2024 19:00 (N) Scorecard

India  212/4 (20 overs)	v	Afghanistan 212/6 (20 overs)
Rohit Sharma 121* (69) Fareed Ahmad 3/20 (4 overs)		Gulbadin Naib 55* (23) Washington Sundar 3/18 (3 overs)

Match tied (India won the second Super Over) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Rohit Sharma (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mohammad Saleem (Afg) made his T20I debut.
• Rohit Sharma (Ind) became the first batter to score 5 centuries in T20Is.^[11]
• Rohit Sharma equalled MS Dhoni's record for most wins as captain in T20Is.^[12]
• 1st Super Over: Afghanistan 16/1, India 16/0
• 2nd Super Over: India 11/2, Afghanistan 1/2
• This was first time a match had been decided by a second Super Over in international cricket history.^[13]