The India cricket team played against the Afghanistan cricket team in September 2026, in three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The series, officially known as the Friendship Cup, formed part of Afghanistan's multi-format bilateral cycle in India, with Afghanistan designated as the official host team for the T20I leg, even though all matches took place at the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in New Delhi.
Squads Ibrahim Zadran (c) Noor Ahmad Abdullah Ahmadzai Sediqullah Atal Fazalhaq Farooqi Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Naveen-ul-Haq Rashid Khan Nangeyalia Kharote Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Azmatullah Omarzai Noor ul Rahman (wk) Mujeeb Ur Rahman Darwish Rasooli Shreyas Iyer (c) Tilak Varma (vc) Ravi Bishnoi Jasprit Bumrah Varun Chakaravarthy Shivam Dube Ishan Kishan (wk) Axar Patel Harshit Rana Nitish Kumar Reddy Sanju Samson (wk) Abhishek Sharma Arshdeep Singh Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Washington Sundar Yash Thakur
On 10 September 2026, Harshit Rana was ruled out due to a strain injury and was replaced by Yash Thakur.
T20I series 1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
References
External links Series home at Cricinfo