India will square off against Afghanistan in the third ODI at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, on Saturday. The hosts have already taken an assailable lead of 2-0 in the series after winning the second game by a mammoth margin of 170 runs at Lucknow.

Shubman Gill has been in dream form, returning with scores of 84 and 154 in the first two games of the series. Furthermore, Gurnoor Brar’s performances have been a huge positive for India as the lanky pacer has scalped six wickets in two games. 

On the other hand, Afghanistan will hope to come up with an improved performance against India.

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Rashid Khan needs 86 runs to complete 1500 runs in ODIs.

Ibrahim Zadran needs 110 runs to complete 2000 runs in ODIs.

Azmatullah Omarzai needs one six to complete 50 maximums in ODIs. He needs six wickets to complete 50 scalps in the ODI format.

Mohammad Nabi needs nine fours to complete 250 boundaries in ODIs.

KL Rahul needs 101 runs to complete 3500 runs in ODIs.

Rohit Sharma needs three fours to complete 1100 boundaries in ODIs. 

Ishan Kishan needs nine sixes to complete 50 maximums in the 50-over format.

Kuldeep Yadav needs six wickets to complete 200 scalps in ODIs.

India’s ODI squad: Shubman Gill (c), Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer (vc), KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Prince Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Harsh Dubey

Afghanistan ODI squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil (wk), Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Nangyal Kharotai, AM Ghazanfar, Zia Ur Rahman Sharifi, Fareed Malik, Bilal Sami