{"id":40615,"date":"2026-08-17T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/17\/2026-t20-showdown-afghanistan-takes-the-field-in-india\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:10:14","slug":"2026-t20-showdown-afghanistan-takes-the-field-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/17\/2026-t20-showdown-afghanistan-takes-the-field-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 T20 Showdown: Afghanistan Takes the Field in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is set to play a series of Twenty20 matches in India, marking their return after a visit in June where they played a Test match and three One Day Internationals. Interestingly, this series is considered a &#8220;home&#8221; series for Afghanistan despite taking place in India.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the scheduled dates for the matches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>September 13<\/strong>: 1st T20 International in Delhi<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 15<\/strong>: 2nd T20 International in Delhi<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 17<\/strong>: 3rd T20 International in Delhi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that the fixtures and start times may change, so stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan is set to play a series of Twenty20 matches in India, marking their return after a visit in June where they played a Test match and three One Day Internationals. Interestingly, this series is considered a &#8220;home&#8221; series for Afghanistan despite taking place in India. Here are the scheduled dates for the matches: September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5053,3660,53513],"class_list":["post-40615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-india-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-getty-images","tag-twenty20-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}