The Afghanistan team will be playing the one-off Test match against India on Saturday, June 6, at New Chandigarh. Prior to the Test match, the head coach of Afghanistan, Richard Pybus, credited the BCCI for giving enough cricket, which helped them to grow.
But alongside, Pybus urged the BCCI to give more cricket. Afghanistan became an ICC Full Member on June 22, 2017. Their first Test match was against India in 2018. Since then, they have played a total of 12 Tests in 5 years.
Speaking to the press before the match, Pybus addressed the issue that the country needs a full Test cycle. he said,
"Credit to the BCCI. They’ve given us plenty of cricket this year, which is fantastic for us to be able to develop. When a country gets full membership, it’s one thing to get it; then you need a full fixture list. I’d like to see, going forward, that the other senior full members also start to build out the list. We need to be in a situation now where there’s a proper fixture list."
He added,
“So, if we’re playing a three‑Test series, you can back that up, Test after Test after Test. If you’re playing five Tests, that’s even better. When the series started to become a two‑Test series, to me, it made absolutely no sense because you don’t want a series that is a tie. You know, there needs to be a three or five‑Test series so that you can actually win the series."
What happened in the 2018 Ind vs Afg Test?
The 2018 Test match was the first time Afghanistan toured India. This one-off Test in New Chandigarh is the second time they are here for a Test match.
India registered a dominant innings-and-262-run victory over Afghanistan in the historic one-off Test at Bengaluru in June 2018, finishing the match within two days. India posted 474, powered by centuries from Shikhar Dhawan (107) and Murali Vijay (105), before bowling Afghanistan out for 109 and 103.
Ravichandran Ashwin claimed five wickets across the match, while Ravindra Jadeja picked up six. Dhawan became the first Indian to score a Test century before lunch on Day 1.
The match also marked Afghanistan's Test debut, with Mujeeb Ur Rahman becoming the first 21st-century-born Test cricketer.
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