IND vs AFG: For 14 months many of these players have been playing without the presence of stalwarts like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah. Hardik Pandya was the unofficial leader of the T20Is with several new faces coming in a year focused on ODIs as the shortest format played second fiddle. Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Tilak Varma, and Mukesh Kumar including 11 players have debuted in T20Is since the 2022 World Cup in Australia. So, is this a litmus test for many of those?
