Sunday, February 5, 2012

Afghanistan is ready to face Pakistan

ACB has announced the following 16-men squad for the ODI match against Pakistan on Feb 10, 2012 at Sharjah, UAE. The match will be broadcasted live on TEN Cricket. PTV Sports and Shamshad TV.
Afghanistan Squad:

1. Nawroz Mangal (c)
2. Mohammad Nabi (vc)
3. Mohammad Shahzad (wk)
4. Asghar Stanikzai
5. Shabbir Noori
6. Javed Ahmadi
7. Gulbadin Naib
8. Samiullah Shenwari
9. Karim Sadiq
10. Mirwais Ashraf
11. Hamid Hassan
12. Dawlat Zadran
13. Shapoor Zadran
14. Zamir Khan
15. Izzatullah Dawlatzai
16. Hamza Hotak

Coach:
Dawlat Ahmadzai
Physio: Azeem Malik
The match is going to be played at Sharjah, which is home to thousands of Pashtuns from both Afghanistan and Pakistan and it's also the home ground of the Afghan cricket team, because foreign teams don't prefer to go Afghanistan due to security reasons. It's expected that it will be a full house on 10th of February.

Afghanistan have played a total of 18 ODI matches with 11 wins and 7 losses, while they have played 2 ODI matches at Sharjah, both against Canada, with one loss and one victory. This is going to be Afghanistan's first ODI match against a Full Member nation of the ICC since getting ODI status in 2009.

2 comments:

Inshallah Afghanistan will win ....

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