The Blast of World Cup 2023 has started in India. Also Indian Capital is also in the mood to change the weather in October. India will see the 9th Blast of the match on Wednesday between India and Afghanistan. The match will be the day for blue at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. India has started its journey of World Cup victory beating Australia by 6 wickets. The order of Virat and Rahul will be expected to be repeated as the middle order batsman in the Jaitley stadium. If discussed on the bowling strategy of the team everyone is on a good performance. But the condition of Delhi is quite different from Chennai. India can change in order by adding fast bowler Muhmad Sami or batting all-rounder Shardul Thakur in place of Ravichandran Aswin.
The Indian team and audience will once again miss the performance of Star opener Subham Gill. He has been hospitalized for being detected Dengue Positive. Gill missed the opening match against Australia. But no such injuries have been reported from the Afghanistan team.
India has a record of a 2-0 lead over Afghanistan in ODIs, Including a tied Asia Cup clash in 2018. India faced Afghanistan in the 2019 World Cup, Sami’s century gave a victory over 11 runs in Southampton. But recently Afghanistan won an ODI series against Bangladesh.
Squads
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav
Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicket-keeper), Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Rahman and Naveen ul Haq
