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Eight summers ago, Afghanistan entered the Test fold with a crippled against India astatine the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium successful Bengaluru. Since that momentous occasion, which though ended successful a thumping innings defeat, the Afghans person gone connected to diagnostic successful conscionable 11 much completed Tests (a crippled against New Zealand successful Greater Noida successful 2024 was abandoned without a shot bowled).
In the lead-up to different Test against India, astatine the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium, Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi called for his squad to get much Test assignments. He has a reasonably inexperienced squad astatine his disposal for the situation against Shubman Gill’s men.
“We request to person much opportunities to physique our Test team. You know, we play lone 1 oregon 2 Tests each year, truthful the boys don’t person that overmuch acquisition of playing red-ball cricket. But erstwhile it comes to our home structure, we person bully First Class cricket successful our country. Every lad plays six-seven games each twelvemonth with the reddish ball,” Shahidi said connected Thursday.
