Team India defeated Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs in the only test. This was the biggest victory of Team India in the history of Test cricket. In this victory of the team, a miraculous performance was seen from debutant Manav Suthar. He took 7 wickets in both the innings. Team India, captained by Shubman Gill, looked completely dominant in the match played at the Maharaja Yadvinder Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh.

Batting first, India declared the innings after scoring 564 runs for 8 wickets. Captain Shubhman Gill played the biggest innings for the team, scoring 126 runs with the help of 15 fours and 1 six. Apart from this, KL Rahul scored 100 runs by hitting 11 fours. Rest Sai Sudarshan and Rishabh Pant played innings of 81-81 runs. Washington Sundar scored a half-century scoring 52* runs.

Apart from this, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 24 runs, Dhruv Jurel scored 19 runs, Manav Suthar scored 28 runs, Mohammad Siraj scored 22 runs and Kuldeep Yadav scored 09* runs.

Leaving New Chandigarh with a massive win under the belt

A complete team performance from #TeamIndia

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— BCCI (@BCCI) June 8, 2026

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Afghanistan flopped in both innings

Afghanistan, who came to bat in the first innings, was all out for 152 runs. Rahmat Shah played an inning of 60 runs for the team. Apart from this, all the other batsmen were flops. Manav Suthar took maximum 6 wickets for India in this innings. Apart from this, Prasidh Krishna got 3 wickets and Washington Sundar got 1 wicket.

After being all out early in the first innings, Team India invited Afghanistan to bat in the second innings under follow-on. India had a lead of 412 runs. This time the Afghan team was limited to only 112 runs. Opener Siddiqullah Atal played the biggest inning of 42 runs for the team. Washington Sundar took maximum 4 wickets for India in this innings. Rest Kuldeep Yadav took 3 wickets, Mohammad Siraj took 1 wicket and Manav Sudhar took 1 wicket. In this way Team India registered its biggest win in Tests.

Biggest innings win for India

An innings and 300 runs against Afghanistan, Mullanpur, 2026*

An innings and 272 runs against West Indies, Rajkot, 2018

An innings and 262 runs against Afghanistan, Bengaluru, 2018

An innings and 239 runs against Bangladesh, Mirpur, 2007

An innings and 239 runs against Sri Lanka, Nagpur, 2017

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The only test between India and Afghanistan is being played in Mullanpur. Team India declared the first innings after scoring 564 runs. By the end of the second day’s play, the Afghanistan team was in dire trouble as they had lost five wickets till the score of 113. This is a golden opportunity for the Indian team to register a big win.

Actually, Team India has a chance to register victory without batting in the second innings. But how is it possible that the Indian team does not even have to bat in the second innings and still register a big win. In fact, the Afghan team is now stuck in the trap of follow-on. Know here how many more runs Afghanistan needs to score in the first innings to save the follow-on.

How many runs does Afghanistan need?

According to the rules of Test cricket, if Team A gets a lead of 200 or more runs after the end of the first innings of both the teams, then it can force Team B to play follow-on. To avoid follow-on, Afghanistan will have to score at least 365 runs in the first innings.

The Afghan team has lost five wickets for 113 runs in its first innings. If the follow-on is to be saved then he still has to score 252 more runs in the first innings. If the Afghanistan team gets all out before scoring the remaining 252 runs in the first innings, then Team India can call them to bat again if they want.

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Team India will win without batting

If Afghanistan fails to save the follow-on, then the Indian team can ask them to bat again. When the Afghanistan team comes to bat again and even then the team is not able to take the lead over India, then India will win the match by the difference of innings.

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Today is the second day of the India vs Afghanistan Test being played in Mullanpur. Shubman Gill (103) and Rishabh Pant (50) will take the Indian innings forward. By the end of the first day’s play, Team India had scored 368 runs after losing 3 wickets. Gill completed his century shortly before the end of the day’s play. Earlier, KL Rahul had scored a century, he was out after scoring 100 runs.

Shubman Gill won the toss and decided to bat first. The pitch is flat, favorable for batting, which the Indian batsmen took advantage of. However, Yashasvi Jaiswal could score only 24 runs. After this, there was a partnership of 139 runs between KL Rahul and Sai Sudarshan, although Rahul would have been out early if the Afghanistan captain had taken DRS on the not out given by the umpire. The ball hit the bat and went into the hands of the wicketkeeper, but the umpire gave him not out. After this Rahul scored a century.

Sai Sudarshan missed his century, he was caught out by Mohammad Salim on the score of 81. After this KL Rahul completed his century, he was out after making 100. Rishabh Pant, who came after this, took the innings forward in a fast-paced manner. Meanwhile, Shubman Gill completed his 10th Test century, this is his sixth century as captain.

Before the end of the day’s play, Rishabh Pant completed his half century. He has hit 3 sixes in his innings so far. He is unbeaten on 50 runs and Shubhman Gill is unbeaten on 103 runs. Both will continue the play for the second day today.

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Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Manav Suthar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.

Afghanistan’s playing 11

Sediqullah Atal, Rehmanullah Gurbaz, Abdul Malik, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Afsar Zazai (wicketkeeper), Azmatullah Umarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Nangeyalia Kharote, Ziaur Rehman, Mohammad Salim.

By the end of the first day’s play in the Mullanpur Test, India had scored 368 runs and 3 wickets had fallen. Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant are set and standing at the crease till the stumps on the first day. Gill has completed the 11th century of his Test career. Apart from him, KL Rahul also completed his century on the first day.

The Indian team won the toss and decided to bat first. For the first time a test match is being played on the ground of Mullanpur. Yashasvi Jaiswal was in early, who scored 24 runs, but KL Rahul, Shubhman Gill and Rishabh Pant have laid the foundation of a much bigger score.

In this match, Shubman Gill has completed 1000 runs as a Test captain. He has completed 1000 runs in 15 innings as captain. He could not break Sunil Gavaskar’s record in terms of reaching this milestone the fastest. Gavaskar had crossed the mark of one thousand runs in 14 innings as captain. Whereas Virat Kohli had played 18 innings to do this.

Gil-Rahul’s historic century

First, KL Rahul scored the 12th century of his Test career, but was out after scoring 100 runs on the very next ball. Rahul has now joined the list of batsmen who have scored the most Test centuries for Team India as an opener. As an opener, Sunil Gavaskar scored the most Test centuries for India, who scored 33 centuries. After him comes Virender Sehwag (22), Murali Vijay (12) and after him comes KL Rahul, whose 11th century as an opener.

Shubman Gill also created history by scoring the 11th century of his Test career. This was Gill’s sixth century in 15 innings as captain. In this matter he is only one century away from Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin had scored 7 test centuries as captain. However, Virat Kohli (20 centuries) has scored the most centuries as a captain for India. Rishabh Pant has also scored his 19th half-century in Test by the end of the first day’s play.

Afghan team lost their sweat

Mohammad Salim has taken the most wickets for Afghanistan so far, who took the wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sai Sudarshan. Let us tell you that Sudarshan missed scoring a century who played an innings of 81 runs. Ziaur Rahman also took one wicket. Except Azmatullah Umarzai and captain Hashmatullah Shahidi, all other bowlers have proved to be very expensive.

India has had a disappointing performance in domestic Test matches in recent times, but its team is still very strong and it will try to prepare the right combination in the one-off Test cricket match against Afghanistan starting here from Saturday before the important matches of the World Test Championship (WTC). This match against Afghanistan is not a part of the WTC but it is very important in terms of deciding the direction of the team. Earlier, a Test match was played between these two teams in 2018 in which Afghanistan lost 10 wickets between lunch and tea session. After this, in the third session his second innings was also reduced and he had to face a crushing defeat.

Now in 2026, the Afghanistan team led by Hashmatullah Shahidi will try to give a tough challenge to the Indian team which is going through a phase of change and is still struggling to prepare the proper combination. Despite this, India seems to have the upper hand. But the Indian players would not have forgotten the crushing 0-2 defeat they faced last year against the South African team which had entered the field with excellent preparation and despite the difference in experience, it would be better if they do not take the opposition team lightly.

The number three batsman and a possible successor to Ravindra Jadeja in red-ball cricket are two aspects that head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill would like to sort out in this match ahead of the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka in August. Both Sai Sudarshan and stylish Devdutt Padikkal are in the race for the number three batsman. However, Gambhir made it clear on Friday that the team management will retain Sudarshan in this batting order. He believes that Sudarshan should get adequate opportunities.

Ravindra Jadeja has been rested in this match, but it is a fact that the Indian selectors and team management are considering other options to prepare the team even without this all-rounder from Rajkot. One of the main reasons for this has been Jadeja’s inability to perform as expected in bowling. Jadeja’s biggest quality is his batting in Test matches in overseas conditions, which is still excellent and hence he still has some time.

But the Indian team management has started looking for his replacement and hence it has kept Manav Suthar and Harsh Dubey in the team. If we look at the net practice of the last few days, Suthar appears to be a better player but Dubey has the upper hand no less.

Manav seems to be an aggressive bowler while Dubey’s attitude is a bit defensive but his batting is stronger. As far as the competition between India and Afghanistan is concerned, the difference becomes clear even by looking at the statistics. Afghanistan played its first Test match against India in Bengaluru in 2018, which the hosts won within two days. Since then, Afghanistan has played 11 more matches till June 2026. In the same period, India has played 67 Test matches, out of which Rishabh Pant alone has been a part of 49 matches. Incidentally, when Afghanistan last played against India, Pant had not even made his Test cricket debut.

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Only KL Rahul is part of the current Indian Test team from the 2018 team, while Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and batsman Rahmat Shah also played in that match. Afghanistan’s entire batting line-up has a total of nine Test centuries, while the batsmen included in the Indian Test team have scored 39 centuries. Shahidi’s team had set up a camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, but practice sessions alone cannot prepare a team for a Test match.

This match will be played in the scorching heat of North India in the month of June and will be a tough test of the physical fitness of both the teams. Apart from this, Indian players have to play from the shortest format to the biggest format within a week of the end of IPL and this will also be a challenge.

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What types of teams are:

India: Shubman Gill (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul (vice-captain), Sai Sudarshan, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Manav Suthar, Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), Gurnoor Brar, Devdutt Padikkal.

Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Abdul Malik, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rahmanullah, Afsar Zazai (wicketkeeper), Ikram Alikhil (wicketkeeper), Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Umarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Nangeyalia Kharote, Bilal Sami, Qais Ahmed, Mohammad Saleem, Ziaur. Rehman. Match start time: 9:30 am.

Gautam Gambhir PC IND vs AFG Test: The only Test to be played between India and Afghanistan will start from June 06 (Saturday). In the press conference held before the match, Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir told that which player will play at number-3 in the Afghanistan Test?

Gambhir said that the number-3 spot has been fixed for 24-year-old left-handed batsman Sai Sudharsan. The head coach believes that Sudarshan has not got a proper opportunity yet. Also talked about Sudarshan’s IPL form.

Sudarshan did not get proper opportunity – Gautam Gambhir

To be fair, he hasn’t got a fair chance yet. He has played only a few tests. He started his career in England, which we all know is not the easiest place to play. He has scored runs in IPL. “I still believe he hasn’t got his fair chance yet.”

Talking further, Gambhir said, “Unfortunately you can choose only 11 players. Sometimes you have to wait for your opportunity. I have always believed that the players we are going to play with, we should give them fair chances. Sai is also not in bad form. He scored almost 700 (722) runs in the IPL. If it is right to judge a player on 4-5 Tests, then I don’t think we will ever be able to make anything.”

Sai Sudarshan’s test career

Sudarshan has played 6 matches in his Test career so far. Batting in 11 innings of these matches, he has scored 302 runs at an average of 27.45. During this period, he has scored 2 half-centuries, in which the high score was 87 runs. Let us tell you that Sudarshan made his Test debut against England in June 2025. The last Test was played against South Africa in November 2025.

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India and Afghanistan are going to come face to face in a test match after 8 years. The next test match of both the teams will be played in Mullanpur from 6th June. This match is also historic because for the first time a Test match will be played in Mullanpur ground. Recovering from the 0-2 defeat the Indian team had suffered at the hands of South Africa in its last Test series, Team India will enter the field with the intention of defeating Afghanistan by a big margin.

When these two teams clashed in 2018, Team India won the match by a margin of innings and 262 runs. This time the Afghan team would like to perform better under the captaincy of Hashmatullah Shahidi. But on the other hand, which combination will Team India try? It should be noted that this match is not a part of the World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle.

pitch report

Since a Test match will be played for the first time in Mullanpur ground, it may be a bit difficult to make predictions for both the teams. But fast bowling may dominate in the first two days. As the pitch gets older, it will become easier to hit batting shots here. If the match continues till the last session of the fourth day or the fifth day, then the spin bowlers can weave their magic.

head to head record

The only Test match between India and Afghanistan so far was played in 2018. In the first innings, Team India had scored 474 runs, in which the century innings of Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan had a big contribution. In reply, the first innings of the Afghan team was reduced to 109 runs. India forced Afghanistan to play follow-on, but the visiting team’s second innings was also limited to 103 runs. Team India won that match by an innings and 262 runs.

India’s probable playing eleven: KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Harsh Dubey, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Gurnoor Brar and Prasidh Krishna.

Afghanistan’s probable playing eleven: Abdul Malik, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Afsar Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Umarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Nangeyalia Kharote, Qais Ahmed, Ziaur Rehman.

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After the end of IPL 2026, the Indian team is going to take the field for the first time. India vs Afghanistan test match is going to start from June 6, which will be played in New Chandigarh. This is only the second time in history that a Test match will be played between these two countries.

Team India has to play only one test match against Afghanistan. Before that, know the status of the points table of the World Test Championship. Who is on top in the table and at what number is Team India? Also know whether the India-Afghanistan Test match will have any impact on the World Test Championship table or not.

WTC Points Table

The Indian team is currently at sixth position in the points table of the World Test Championship 2025-27. The path to the final seems very difficult for Team India. In the WTC table, teams are ranked according to points percentage. The percentage of Team India is only 48.15, whereas the percentage of Australia sitting at the top is 87.50.

Australia is first, New Zealand is second and defending champion South Africa is third. Even Bangladesh is above India in this table, which is currently at fifth position. England, Pakistan and West Indies, all three teams are present in the bottom three positions respectively.

1. Australia
2. New Zealand
3. South Africa
4. Sri Lanka
5. bangladesh
6. India
7. England
8. Pakistan
9. west indies

Points will not be added

Even if the Indian team wins the Test match against Afghanistan, its points will not be added to the World Test Championship table. The main reason for this is that Afghanistan is not included in the 9 teams participating in the WTC. Whereas the World Test Championship cycle includes those series in which at least 2 matches are to be played, whereas only one Test match is to be played between India and Afghanistan.

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The only Test between India and Afghanistan will be played from June 06 at the Maharaja Yadvendra Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh. Before the match, sad news came out for the Indian fans. In fact, the play of the team’s star fast bowler Mohammed Siraj is in danger. Jasprit Bumrah has not been made a part of the squad for the test. In such a situation, the entire responsibility is on Siraj only.

However, now the danger of Siraj being out is looming. According to the report of Times of India, Siraj has reached Chandigarh with the team, but he is under the supervision of the medical team. A decision regarding his fitness and workload will be taken in the next 2 days. Siraj was playing continuously in IPL for the last 2 months. In such a situation, the team management will not want to take any kind of risk regarding him.

Siraj played all the matches of the season for Gujarat Titans. Gujarat played a total of 17 matches including the final, Siraj was a part of the team in all the matches. Now it will be interesting to see what decision is taken regarding Siraj.

With Siraj out, the hope of other bowlers playing will increase.

If Siraj is unable to play the match, then Aaqib Nabi can be added to the team in his place. Nabi is with the team as a net bowler. In the absence of Siraj, Gurnoor Brar may also get a chance to debut. Aaqib Nabi can also be included in the list of debut players.

Aaqib Nabi had taken the maximum of 60 wickets in the last season of Ranji. After this it was believed that Aaqib was certain to get a place in the Test team. Although he was not made a part of the squad, but he is definitely with the team as a net bowler. Now it will be interesting to see which bowler’s luck shines in the absence of Siraj.

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The only test match between India and Afghanistan is to be played from June 6 at Mullanpur Stadium in New Chandigarh. Both the teams have been announced for this test match. Many new faces have been included in the Indian team. Jasprit Bumrah has been rested in this test match. Whereas Shubman Gill will lead Team India. Young players like Manav Suthar, Harsh Dubey and Gurnoor Brar have got a place in Team India for this test match. Know how India’s playing eleven could be in this test.

Will Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul start the innings?

Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul can open the innings in the only Test match against Afghanistan. KL Rahul has now also been made the vice-captain of the Indian Test team. He has also played in the middle order, but he has been most successful as an opener. In such a situation, he can be given the responsibility of opening against Afghanistan.

Devdutt Padikkal or Sai Sudarshan, who will get the chance?

There is a fight between two batsmen for number three. It is not easy to tell who will get the chance, Devdutt Padikkal or Sai Sudarshan. Both are in great form. Captain Shubman Gill can give a chance to Sai Sudarshan, because he has played in this position before. Whereas captain Shubman Gill is certain to play at number four. Gill is the backbone of Team India’s batting.

Wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant is certain to play at number five in the middle order. Pant may not be anything special in IPL 2026, but he is the best in Tests. After this, Dhruv Jurel may get a chance at number six. Nitish Kumar Reddy is scheduled to play at number seven and Washington Sundar at number eight. After this, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammad Siraj and Prasidh Krishna can be seen in action in bowling.

India’s probable playing eleven in the first test against Afghanistan- Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna.

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