IND vs AFG: Is Dinesh Karthik Playing Today's India vs Afghanistan match?

Dinesh Karthik IND vs AFG: Team India have faced a lot of embarrassment during the ongoing Super 4 stage of the Asia Cup 2022. After having registered two brilliant victories in the group stage, the Rohit Sharma-led side succumbed to poor back-to-back losses at the hands of first arch-rivals Pakistan and then Sri Lanka. With these two disappointing performances, the Men in Blue, who managed to win the previous two editions of Asia Cup, have already been knocked out of the T20 tournament.

IND vs AFG: Is Dinesh Karthik Playing Today’s India vs Afghanistan match? Here’s the update

In their last match of Asia Cup 2022 campaign, India will be facing Afghanistan on 8 September, 2022 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai. A lot of questions were asked to the Indian captain Rohit Sharma during the post match press conference after the loss to Sri Lanka and many of them straightway pointed towards the playing combination. India included Deepak Hooda in the playing XI during the last two matches after Ravindra Jadeja’s injury, but the former’s services with the ball were not used even when the frontline bowlers were conceding plenty of runs. Therefore, once again there is a big possibility that the experienced finisher Dinesh Karthik will return to the side in the match against Afghanistan on Thursday.

“I was thinking of bringing Hooda but it did not work out the way we thought. Avesh has not pulled up that well. He didn’t turn up well. He was quite sick. Ideally, when we start touring, we would like four seamers., But you also try with three. Come the World Cup, I want to be ready with all answers,” said Indian captain Rohit Sharma.

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India Playing 11

1. Rohit Sharma (C)
2. KL Rahul
3. Virat Kohli
4. Suryakumar Yadav
5. Hardik Pandya
6. Rishabh Pant (wk)
7. Deepak Hooda/Dinesh Karthik
8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
9. Ravi Bishnoi/Ravichandran Ashwin
10. Arshdeep Singh
11. Yuzvendra Chahal

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Asia Cup 2022 Schedule

Date	Match	Venue	Time	Result
27 August, 2022 (Saturday)	Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	Afghanistan won by 8 wickets
28 August, 2022 (Sunday)	India vs Pakistan	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	India won by 5 wickets
30 August, 2022 (Tuesday)	Bangladesh vs Afghanistan	Sharjah	7:30 PM IST	Afghanistan won by 7 wickets
31 August, 2022 (Wednesday)	India vs Hong Kong	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	India won by 40 runs
1 September, 2022 (Thursday)	Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets
2 September, 2022 (Friday)	Pakistan vs Hong Kong	Sharjah	7:30 PM IST	Pakistan won by 155 runs
3 September, 2022 (Saturday)	Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan	Sharjah	7:30 PM IST	Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets
4 September, 2022 (Sunday)	India vs Pakistan	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	Pakistan won by 5 wickets
6 September, 2022 (Tuesday)	India vs Sri Lanka	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets
7 September, 2022 (Wednesday)	Pakistan vs Afghanistan	Sharjah	7:30 PM IST	Pakistan won by 1 wicket
8 September, 2022 (Thursday)	India vs Afghanistan	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	TBA
9 September, 2022 (Friday)	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	TBA
11 September, 2022 (Sunday)	Final (Sri Lanka vs Pakistan)	Dubai	7:30 PM IST	TBA