Why Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal are not playing 1st T20I for India against Afghanistan in Mohali?
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Why Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal are not playing 1st T20I for India against Afghanistan in Mohali?

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Team India won the toss and elected to bowl first in the first T20I against Afghanistan at Mohali's Punjab Cricket Association's IS Bindra Stadium on Thursday, January 11. On the eve of the first T20I, coach Rahul Dravid mentioned that Rohit and Yashasvi Jaiswal will open the innings for India but not just Jaiswal, neither Virat Kohli nor Sanju Samson made India's line-up. "Mr Yashasvi Jaiswal was unavailable for selection for the first T20I due to a sore right groin," the BCCI statement read. Playing XIs India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Mukesh Kumar Afghanistan: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mujeeb Ur Rahman More to follow.

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