KABUL: Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan will miss a one-off Test against India next month but selectors on Tuesday included the ace spinner in the squad for the three-match One-day International series.

The 27-year-old spinner was advised to cut down on long-format cricket to manage workload as he plays in several Twenty20 franchise leagues.

Unfit opener Ibrahim Zadran will also miss the Test, which is scheduled for June 6-10 in New Chandigarh.

Hashmatullah Shahidi will lead the Test side as well as in three one-day internationals that follow, which will be played in Dharamsala (June 13), Lucknow (June 17) and Chennai (June 20).

Nangyal Kharoti, Bilal Sami and Rahmanullah Zadran were selected for a Test for the first time while leg-spinner Qais Ahmad made a return to the side.

Since gaining Test status in 2017, Afghanistan have played only one against India, in 2018.

Test squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Abdul Malik, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rahmanullah Zadran, Afsar Zazai, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Nangyal Kharoti, Qais Ahmad, Bilal Sami, Zia Ur Rahman Sharifi, Saleem Safi.

ODI squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Darwish Rasooli, Rahmat Shah, Ikram Alikhil, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Nangyal Kharoti, AM Ghazanfar, Zia Ur Rahman Sharifi, Fareed Malik, Bilal Sami.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2026