Captain Shubman Gill and Afghanistan’s skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi pose for photographs with the trophy before the one-off Test in Mullanpur on June 6, 2026.
| Photo Credit: PTI
India skipper Shubman Gill won the toss and opted to bat in the one-off Test against Afghanistan in Mullanpur on Saturday (June 6, 2026).
India handed debut to left-arm spinner Manav Suthar, who has played 29 first-class matches for Rajasthan. He has 129 wickets from those matches.
This will be Gill’s first Test as captain on his home turf, Punjab.
Afghanistan also handed Test cap to 22-year-old left-arm spinner Nangeyalia Kharote.
Teams:
India: KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (capt), Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Manav Suthar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.
Afghanistan: Sediqullah Atal, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Abdul Malik , Rahat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi (capt), Afsar Zazai (wk), Azmatullah Omarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Nangeyalia Kharote, Ziaur Rahman, Mohammad Saleem.
Published – June 06, 2026 09:30 am IST
