Afghanistan’s ace leg-spinner Rashid Khan is ready to return to the ODI format for the primary time because the conclusion of final 12 months’s ODI World Cup in India. Rashid has been named in Afghanistan’s 17-member squad for his or her upcoming three-match ODI collection in opposition to South Africa, starting on September 18 within the UAE. Rashid was a notable absentee in Afghanistan’s squad for the one-off Check in opposition to New Zealand in Better Noida. After final 12 months’s World Cup, Rashid had undergone again surgical procedure. He was out of motion and missed Afghanistan’s collection in opposition to UAE, India and Sri Lanka, and ODIs in opposition to Eire.
Afghanistan may even miss the presence of thriller spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman, who remains to be recovering from a sprain within the index finger of his proper hand.
Together with Mujeeb, top-order batter Ibrahim Zadran has been dominated out of the collection attributable to an ankle sprain in his left leg. Afghanistan have referred to as on proficient top-order batter Abdul Malik to fill Zardan’s footwear.
Darwish Rasooli can be in rivalry to make his ODI debut for Afghanistan after being named within the squad. The 24-year-old batter has seven T20I caps to his identify up to now. He has placed on constant performances within the lately held Listing A Cup and the SCL9.
“Mujeeb Ur Rahman continues to get better from his harm and is unavailable for choice. Ibrahim Zadran may even miss the South Africa ODIs for twisting his ankle on the sting of the New Zealand Check. Nonetheless, now we have included a few of the top-performing children, Abdul Malik and Darwish Rasooli. Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar can be a proficient cricketer and has demonstrated glorious abilities lately and can cowl for Mujeeb Ur Rahman within the collection,” Chief Selector Ahmad Shah Sulimankhil mentioned, as quoted from a press release by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB).
All video games of the three-match ODI collection can be performed in Sharjah. This would be the first time that Afghanistan and South Africa will face off in a bilateral ODI collection. Earlier than the upcoming collection, each groups solely met on the 2019 and 2023 ODI World Cups.
Afghanistan Squad for the three-match ODI collection in opposition to South Africa: Hashmatullah Shahidi (C), Rahmat Shah (VC), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (WK), Ikram Alikhil (WK), Abdul Malik, Riaz Hassan, Darwish Rasooli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Nangyal Kharoti, Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Bilal Sami, Naveed Zadran and Farid Ahmad Malik.
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