IND vs AFG: Who was the captain of Team India in the only Test played between India and Afghanistan? Know how the result was

IND vs AFG: The Indian team is going to play a bilateral ODI series against Afghanistan for the first time in the history of cricket. Team India will host Afghanistan for a one-off Test match and 3 ODI series in June this month, which will start with a Test match from June 6. Both the teams have announced their squads for the Test and ODI series. Star players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will return to Team India from the ODI series against Afghanistan. Now Team India is playing an ODI series against Afghanistan for the first time, but let us tell you that India has already played a Test match against Afghanistan…

Ajinkya Rahane captained in the absence of Virat Kohli.

The only Test match between India and Afghanistan was played in the year 2018. This test match was played from June 14 to June 15 at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. This was the first debut test match in the cricket history of Afghanistan. Virat Kohli was the regular captain of Team India at that time, but Virat Kohli was not a part of this test match against Afghanistan. In Kohli’s absence, Ajinkya Rahane captained Team India. Whereas Afghanistan was captained by Asghar Stanikzai.

Shikhar Dhawan and Murali Vijay had scored centuries

In this test match against Afghanistan, the Indian team won the toss and batted first and scored 474 runs in the first innings. Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan had scored brilliant centuries for Team India. Murali Vijay had played an innings of 105 runs in 153 balls. Whereas Dhawan had played an innings of 107 runs in 96 balls. Whereas Hardik Pandya had scored 71 runs. While KL Rahul had scored 54 runs. Mohammad Yameen Ahmadzai took maximum 3 wickets for Afghanistan.

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India-Afghanistan test match ended in just 2 days

In reply, the entire Afghanistan team was all out for 109 runs. Mohammad Nabi scored the maximum 24 runs for the team. Apart from this, no batsman from Afghanistan could touch the figure of 20 runs. Ravichandran Ashwin took maximum 4 wickets for India. While Ishant Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja took 2-2 wickets. Umesh Yadav got a success. After this, Afghanistan team was reduced to only 103 runs while playing follow-on in the second innings. In this way, Team India won this test match by one innings and 262 runs. This match was over in just 2 days.

Shikhar Dhawan became the player of the match

Shikhar Dhawan was given the Player of the Match award for his excellent batting in this test match against Afghanistan. Dhawan had achieved the feat of scoring a century before lunch on the very first day of this test match. Dhawan became the first Indian batsman to score a century before lunch on the very first day of the Test match.

Ajinkya Rahane called the Afghanistan team and got a photo taken with the trophy.

Not only this, the Indian team and captain Ajinkya Rahane had won the hearts of cricket fans in this match. Actually, while receiving the trophy, Rahane had called the Afghanistan team on the stage and got a photo clicked with them. Ajinkya Rahane had congratulated Afghanistan on their debut test match.

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