IND vs AFG, ICC World Cup 2019: Key Milestones which can be attained in today's clash

India and Afghanistan will play out their maiden World Cup match at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Saturday

Samiullah Shinwari (45 wickets) needs five wickets to become the second Afghanistan cricketer to score 1,000+ ODI runs and also to take 50 ODI wickets

Mohammad Nabi (195 wickets) needs five more wickets to become the second Afghanistan bowler to pick up 200 international wickets

Virat Kohli (19,896 runs) is 104 runs away from scaling the 20,000-run milestone in international cricket. The Indian skipper will be the third Indian batsman and 12th overall batsman to score 20,000 international runs

MS Dhoni is one stumping away to create a new record of most stumpings by an Indian wicketkeeper in the ICC World Cup. Dhoni (6 stumpings) is currently tied with Kiran More for the most stumpings by an Indian wicketkeeper at the World Cup

Kohli has a chance of becoming the fastest batsman to get to the milestone by eclisping the joint fastest record held by Brian Lara (West Indies) and Sachin Tendulkar (India), as both of them achieved the feat in 453 international innings

Hardik Pandya (99 wickets) is one wicket away to bring up 100 international wickets in his career

Left-arm spinner Kuldeep Yadav (149 wickets) needs to take one more wicket to complete 150 wickets in international cricket

Here are some of the major milestones which can be achieved by players from both India and Afghanistan in the World Cup game at Southampton

India who have secured three clinical wins would look to continue their winning streak in the tournament against winless Afghanistan and inch closer to a semifinal berth

India and Afghanistan will play out their maiden World Cup match at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Saturday

The last ODI encounter played between the two teams at the 2018 Asia Cup ended in a tie