Afghanistan will square off against India in the second T20I against India at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi, on Tuesday. The visitors, interestingly in this case India, won the series opener comprehensively by seven wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the series.

On the other hand, Afghanistan were not good enough with the bat. They were reeling at 43-5 at one stage but did well to post 156 runs on the board, courtesy of Azmatullah Omarzai’s fifty.

However, India made light work of the run-chase with Abhishek Sharma top-scoring with 82 runs off just 32 balls.

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Indian captain Shreyas Iyer needs 77 runs to complete 1500 runs in T20Is.

Indian opener Sanju Samson needs 58 runs to complete 1500 runs in the T20I format.

Ravi Bishnoi, if he gets his chance, will play the 50th T20I for India.

Afghanistan captain Ibrahim Zadran needs five sixes to complete 50 maximums in T20Is.

Afghanistan all-rounder Gulbadin Naib needs one six to complete 50 maximums in T20Is.

Azmatullah Omarzai needs seven sixes to complete 50 maximums in T20I format.

Veteran all-rounder Mohammad Nabi needs 19 runs to complete 2500 runs in T20Is.

Rashid Khan needs seven wickets to complete 200 wickets in T20Is.

India squad for Afghanistan T20Is: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma (vice-captain), Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur.

Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Noor Rahman, Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Gulbadin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Nangeyalia Kharote, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Abdullah Ahmadzai and Naveen-ul-Haq