Afghanistan A cricket team

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Afghanistan A
Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg
Personnel
Captain Darwish Rasooli
Coach Nawroz Mangal
Team information
Founded2013
Home ground Kabul international cricket stadium, Kabul, Afghanistan
Capacity6000

The Afghanistan A cricket team is a national cricket team representing Afghanistan. It is the 'second-tier' of international Afghan cricket, below the full Afghanistan national cricket team. Matches played by Afghanistan A are not considered to be One Day Internationals, instead receiving List A classification. Their first match was against the Tajikistan national cricket team in December 2013. [1] [2] In 2017, they played a five-match series against the Zimbabwe A cricket team in Zimbabwe. [3]

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In July 2017, they were added to the South Africa A Team Tri-Series, after Australia A withdrew. [4] [5] They toured Bangladesh in July 2019, playing two first-class and five 50-over matches against Bangladesh A. [6] In October 2024, the Afghanistan A team played in the ACC emerging team asia cup tournament where they won matches against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh A but lost against Honk Kong A. However they won against India A in the semi final by scoring the highest ever total in the tournament history of 206. 2024 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup final was played between Afghanistan A and Sri Lanka A Team on 27 October 2024 which Afghanistan A won and won their first title as such.

Tournament History

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Afghanistan

Key
Champions
Runners-up
Semi-finals

ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup

ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup record
YearRoundPositionPWLTNR
Flag of Singapore.svg 2013 Group Stage5/832100
Flag of Bangladesh.svg 2017 [7] Semi-finals4/842200
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg
Flag of Pakistan.svg 2018 [8]
Group Stage6/831200
Flag of Bangladesh.svg 2019 [9] Semi-finals4/842200
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg 2023 [10] Group Stage5/832100
Flag of Oman.svg 2024 [11] Champion1/854100
Total1 Title-2213900

References

  1. Administrator. "Tajikistan Tours Afghanistan". asiancricket.org.
  2. "Matches played by Afghanistan A". Cricket Archive. 28 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. "Zimbabwe A prepares to host Afghanistan A". Wisden India. 23 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  4. "Players withdraw from Australia A tour". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  5. "Afghans to replace Aussies in SA". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
  6. "Afghanistan A in Bangladesh 2019". CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  7. "ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2017" . Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  8. "ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2018" . Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  9. "ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019" . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  10. "ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2023" . Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  11. "ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2024" . Retrieved 27 October 2024.