Dawlat Zadran

Defending champions Afghanistan skittled Ireland out for 187 on the first day of the ICC Intercontinental Cup final in Dubai on Tuesday.

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In a country ravaged by terrorism for decades, cricket acts like a balm.

The five cricketers from Afghanistan are keeper batsman Mohammad Shahzad, a well-known MS Dhoni fan, skipper Asghar Stanikzai, allrounder Mohammad Nabi, 18-year-old legspinner Rashid Khan and medium-pacer Dawlat Zadran.

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Moments after the tie with India on Tuesday night, Asghar Afghan made an audacious claim: "We would have definitely been in the final had we played all our matches in Dubai. Nobody knows the conditions in Dubai better than us. We were unlucky that we played in Abu Dhabi and we didn't finish off two close matches."

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In a historic first, the BCCI has decided to include five Afghanistan cricketers including hard-hitting wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammed Shahzad, whose pyrotechnics had grabbed eyeballs during the last edition of World T20 in India, in the IPL auction pool.

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351 players will officially go under the hammer in the 2017 Indian Premier League auction, the IPL governing body confirmed on Tuesday (February 14). The final list has been pruned from 799 players who registered their names for the auction.

A side which has made massive strides in international cricket since its World Cup debut in 2015, it will not be a surprise if a spirited Afghanistan humbles one or two leading sides at the mega event, beginning next week.

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Tuesday announced the squads for the upcoming Test against Bangladesh and T20I triangular series. Spinner Rashid Khan will lead the team in both the formats. Selectors named 15-member squad for Bangladesh Test and 17-member squad for Afghanistan-Bangladesh-Zimbabwe T20I triangular series.

Pacer Hamid Hassan and former captain Asghar Afghan were on Monday named in Afghanistan's 15-strong World Cup squad headlined by IPL stars Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi.

Young Nicholas Pooran and skipper Jason Holder provided the final flourish with a century plus stand as West Indies scored a respectable 311 for six in an inconsequential World Cup league stage encounter on Thursday.

Defending champions Sri Lanka had to toil hard to get past Afghanistan by six wickets and make a winning start in the Super10s of World Twenty20 at the Eden Gardens on Thursday evening.

Rashid Khan took a big leap towards becoming the quickest bowler to 100 ODI wickets when he grabbed his fourth five-wicket haul as Afghanistan overcame a top-order batting collapse to prevail over the United Arab Emirates in a Super Six fixture of the ICC World Cup Qualifier on Tuesday.

Afghanistan keep coming up with surprises in world cricket. This one came on Thursday. By the time more than half of the cricketing world woke up, the under-19 Afghan boys had brushed aside New Zealand in Christchurch by 202 runs to make their maiden semifinal in an ICC event.

Enigmatic Pakistan will hope to continue their resurgent run while keeping complacency at bay when they play Afghanistan in the ICC World Cup on Saturday.

Fully capable of creating upsets in England, the Afghanistan squad includes influential players like leg-spinner Rashid Khan who can provide the spark at crunch moments and create panic in the opposition camp.

Winless so far in the tournament, both South Africa and Afghanistan will be eagerly looking to tick the victory box when they take on each other in a World Cup encounter on Saturday.

With both teams out of the semifinal race, Afghanistan will have the psychological advantage on Thursday when they continue the search for their maiden victory in the World Cup against West Indies, who are looking to restore pride.

World's premier T20 bowler Rashid Khan will headline a four-pronged spin attack in the 15-strong Afghanistan squad announced on Tuesday for the historic one-off Test against India in Bengaluru, starting June 14.

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Eager to keep the semi-final hopes alive, a desperate Bangladesh will have their work cut out when they take on a spirited Afghanistan in a do-or-die World Cup encounter here Monday.

The ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier will have new winners on Sunday when number one seeds the West Indies and second-seeded Afghanistan face each other in the final at the Harare Sports Club.

India finally registered a win after a long time as they crushed minnows Afghanistan by 153 runs in their second and final World Cup warm-up match.

Lost in transition, defending champions Sri Lanka will look to come out of the rut and start well against a spirited Afghanistan in their World Twenty20 Super 10 opener at Eden Gardens on Thursday.

Struck by a series of injury setbacks, England will look to get the combination right when they take on the low-ranked but spirited Afghanistan in their bid get closer to a semi-final berth on Tuesday.

The journey of Shapoor Zadran, a huge frame with a genial approach, is symbolic to the battles endured by cricket in Afghanistan. Poverty, fear of the war-stricken society and now gun attacks, the veteran left-arm pacer's zeal is the paradigm in Afghan cricket.

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