India vs Afghanistan T20 series 2024, live streaming: Where to watch, full schedule and full squads

In their first home assignment of the 2024 cricket season, world No. 1 India will take on Afghanistan in a three-match T20 international series starting Thursday. 

Mohali will host the first India vs Afghanistan T20 cricket match. Indore will be the venue for the second tie while the final match will be played in Bengaluru. Live streaming and live telecast of all three IND vs AFG T20 matches will be available in India.

Rohit Sharma will take over as India’s T20 captain for the series against Afghanistan. Hardik Pandya and Suryakumar Yadav, the two players who have led India in Sharma’s absence in the past year, are unavailable due to injury. Virat Kohli is also set to return to the Indian men's T20 cricket team.

Kohli and Sharma last played a T20I for India in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in November 2022. Both players chose to focus on the longer formats for the World Test Championship final and the ODI World Cup in 2023.

Afghanistan, world No. 10, will be led by Ibrahim Zadran. Spinner Rashid Khan, Afghanistan’s regular T20 captain, was named in the squad but will not play as he is still recovering from a recent back surgery.

Following the T20I series against Afghanistan, India will host England in a five-match Test series. It will be India’s last international engagement of this year before the 2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the USA and West Indies in June.

Where to watch India vs Afghanistan T20 2024 series live in India

Live streaming of the India vs Afghanistan T20 2024 series will be on JioCinema. Live telecast of the IND vs AFG T20 cricket matches will be available on Sports18 1 and Sports18 1 HD TV channels in India.

India vs Afghanistan T20 2024 schedule

All in Indian Standard Times (IST)

• January 11, Thursday: India vs Afghanistan 1st T20 - 7:00 PM
• January 14, Sunday: India vs Afghanistan 2nd T20 - 7:00 PM
• January 17, Wednesday: India vs Afghanistan 3rd T20 - 7:00 PM

India vs Afghanistan T20I series 2024 squads

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicket-keeper), Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar

Afghanistan: Ibrahim Zadran (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wicket-keeper), Ikram Alikhil (wicket-keeper), Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Azmatullah Omarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Fareed Ahmad, Naveen Ul Haq, Noor Ahmad, Mohammad Saleem, Qais Ahmad, Gulbadin Naib