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| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mohammad Asghar Afghan | |||
| Born | 22 February 1987 Kabul, Afghanistan | |||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium-fast | |||
| Role | Middle order batsman | |||
| Relations | Karim Janat (brother) | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Afghanistan | |||
| Test debut (cap 2) | 14 June 2018 v India | |||
| Last Test | 5 September 2019 v Bangladesh | |||
| ODI debut (cap 1) | 19 April 2009 v Scotland | |||
| Last ODI | 4 July 2019 v West Indies | |||
| ODI shirt no. | 44 | |||
| T20I debut (cap 1) | 1 February 2010 v Ireland | |||
| Last T20I | 24 February 2019 v Ireland | |||
| T20I shirt no. | 44 | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2017 | Amo Region | |||
| 2017 | Kabul Eagles | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | ODI | T20I | FC |
| Matches | 2 | 102 | 59 | 25 |
| Runs scored | 103 | 2,078 | 1,056 | 1,524 |
| Batting average | 34.33 | 23.88 | 21.55 | 43.54 |
| 100s/50s | 0/1 | 1/11 | 0/3 | 4/5 |
| Top score | 67 | 101 | 62 | 145 |
| Balls bowled | 12 | 139 | 4 | 87 |
| Wickets | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Bowling average | – | 30.33 | 4.00 | – |
| 5 wickets in innings | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10 wickets in match | – | 0 | 0 | – |
| Best bowling | – | 1/1 | 1/4 | – |
| Catches/stumpings | 0/– | 24/– | 17/– | 15/– |
| Source: ESPNcricinfo, 5 September 2019 | ||||
Asghar Afghan, born Mohammad Asghar Stanikzai, and also known as Asghar Salamkhail is an Afghan cricketer and the former captain of the Afghanistan national cricket team. Afghan is a right-handed batsman and a medium-fast bowler. In May 2018, he was named as the captain of Afghanistan, for their inaugural Test match, played against India. He made his Test debut for Afghanistan, against India, on 14 June 2018. In April 2019, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) dropped him as captain of the Afghanistan team across all three formats.
On 2 August 2018, he changed his last name from Stanikzai to Afghan.
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| Afghanistan squad – 2019 Cricket World Cup |
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1 Najibullah • 3 Hazratullah • 7 Nabi • 08 Rahmat • 10 Dawlat • 11 Gulbadin (c) • 15 Noor • 19 Rashid (vc) • 44 Afghan • 45 Shenwari • 50 Hashmatullah • 55 Aftab • 66 Hassan • 77 Shahzad wk • 88 Mujeeb • Coach: Simmons |