India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Will Abhishek Sharma continue his good form?

Shreyas Iyer's India will look to extend their lead against Ibrahim Zadran's Afghanistan in the 2nd T20I at New Delhi on Tuesday. One setback for the Men in Blue is the absence of Varun Chakaravarthy. Follow live updates toss at 7:00 PM IST

Shreyas Iyer’s India will face Ibrahim Zadran-led Afghanistan in the second of the three-match T20I series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Tuesday. India won the first game comfortably by seven wickets, chasing 157

Abhishek Sharma slammed 82 off 32 balls, and his powerplay fireworks took the game away from Afghanistan, who looked rattled by the Punjab-based batter’s aggression. In addition to him, Ishan Kishan, after his marathon innings in the Duleep Trophy final, scored 42 off 33 balls, building a partnership with Sharma.

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Afghanistan, on the other hand, did not post enough runs. Whether more runs would have been enough, given how India batted, is a debate for another day, but their top order crumbled under the pressure created by Indian bowlers, with Azmatullah Omarzai and Mohammad Nabi saving face.

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Sep 15, 2026 05:58 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Sanjiv Goenka on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

“Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is worth all the praise in the world. He is a generational talent. Every IPL team owner is upset that Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is not part of their team. And now since Lakshmi Mittal owns Rajasthan Royals, he will never let Vaibhav Sooryavanshi go anywhere. And if it ever happens, not just me… the entire IPL world of owners are waiting,” he said on Shubhankar Mishra’s podcast.

Sep 15, 2026 05:44 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Kris Srikkanth on Sanju Samson

“This team management is playing around with Sanju Samson. I pity Samson. Either you give him an extended run and then drop him or give Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a run of matches without dropping him. The mistake India are making is both are getting two matches here and there. That’s not good for the player," Srikkanth said.

Sep 15, 2026 05:35 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Kris Srikkanth on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

“Yesterday, because Sooryavanshi didn’t play, we started watching a movie," Srikkanth said on his YouTube channel. “My wife was shouting that Sooryavanshi didn’t play and started arguing that someone who was the Player of the Match in the last match isn’t playing. Even my wife is questioning his exclusion. You are not treating Sooryavanshi properly. Now, if he plays the next match, he’ll wonder whether he’ll be dropped if he doesn’t score."

Sep 15, 2026 05:25 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Gulbadin Naib on his friendship

“I get along really well with Axar (Axar Patel) bhai. We always talk, whether I’m at home or wherever I am. Whenever I call him, he picks up on the first ring, and he always replies to my messages. So, I have developed a brother-like relationship with him, and he’s a very great man. There are many other players like that whom I meet and talk to. I have met Virat bhai as well, but my friendship with Axar Patel is much deeper.”

Sep 15, 2026 05:20 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Kuldeep Yadav on different challanges

“So you come here and face different challenges, different conditions. Some (pitches) are very dry here; if you go south side you’ll feel that there’s a dryness in the wicket. When you come (a) bit north, like Yorkshire, you’ll see a bit of cold,” he added.

Sep 15, 2026 05:13 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Kuldeep Yadav on county cricket

“I personally feel it’s (English county experience) very good for batters and spinners. Obviously, you will see seaming conditions here and there, but you play here to get used to the challenges you face. You’re not going to face them back home because you grew up playing there and you know the conditions pretty well,” Kuldeep said.

Sep 15, 2026 04:57 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Steve Harmison on Kuldeep Yadav's game time

“You want to play because when you are in the squad you want to play, but sometimes it doesn’t happen because of the whatever the management thinks… Last year, I was hoping to get a chance in a few games but it’s okay. Maybe next time,” he said.

Sep 15, 2026 04:53 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Steve Harmison on Kuldeep Yadav

“Sometimes you just have to go with the team combination or strategy, unfortunately or fortunately. Definitely you feel bad for yourself when you’re not playing, when you’re not part of the playing XI,” Kuldeep told South African broadcaster Neil Manthorp and former England fast bowler Steve Harmison in a talkSPORT interview.

Sep 15, 2026 04:50 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: AFG predicted XI

Sediqullah Atal, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran (c), Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq.

Sep 15, 2026 04:45 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: IND predicted XI

Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan/Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dube, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh

Sep 15, 2026 04:36 PM IST
India vs Afghanistan Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Hola!

Hello and welcome to our live blog of India taking on Afghanistan. The Men in Blue have already won the first game, and if they manage to win today, they will win the three-match series. Afghanistan, on the other hand, would want to pull off a miracle, which is to beat India for the first time and level the series.

Afghanistan are Asia’s second-best team but lack of enough matches hurting them

The match at New Delhi's Arun Jaitley Stadium was defined by three notable "firsts": the Indian cricket team sang Vande Mataram together before a match for the first time, Richard Pybus made his T20I head coaching debut for Afghanistan, and the Afghan squad played their first international T20 since the 2026 T20 World Cup, with the resulting seven-month layoff showing clearly in their initial batting struggles. (Read more from Shuvaditya Bose)

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