Afghanistan national cricket team

The Afghan cricket team is the national selection of country of Afghanistan. She is a member of the ICC and since 2003 a member of the ACC since 2001.

2.1 Cricket World Cup
2.2 World Twenty20

History

Originally, the Taliban regime had banned cricket, but the beginning of 2000 there were some changes, as Cricket was admitted to the only sport. Cricket was little known until this time in Afghanistan. In 2001, the Afghan national team had participated in a four-nation tournament and was accepted as an affiliate member in the ICC. In June 2013, Afghanistan was declared an Associate Member of the ICC.

One -Day International

2004 played the Afghan national team in the ACC Trophy in Kuala Lumpur, where she could advance to sixth place over Bahrain and the host Malaysia with two wins. When participating in the ACC Trophy 2006, it reached third place, as well as two years later at the ACC Trophy Elite. In the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2009, the team missed with a fifth place to qualify for the Cricket World Cup 2011 only scarce, but received official ODI status by the year 2013. In preparation of this tournament, the team was able to set strong accents. She won successively the World Cricket League Division 5, 4 and 3 in the qualification process for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 she succeeded in Division 1 with a win over the Netherlands hosts a third place, which they for the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2013 are qualified. Also succeeded in winning the ACC Trophy Elite 2010, by a 95 runs victory against Nepal.

Twenty20

In addition to the championships in the One- Day International format, the team was also represented in the Twenty20 format. Here you succeeded in the ACC Twenty20 Cup 2007 victory, a split with the team from Oman and two years later the sole winning the trophy. In 2010, the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier could be decided with an 8 wicket victory over Ireland for themselves, which they were at the ICC World Twenty20 in 2010 there. Here, however, they lost in the first round of their two games against India and South Africa, and dropped out. In qualifying for the Twenty20 World Cup 2012 in the UAE, the team could confidently initially qualify for the World Cup with eight wins in eight games. However, in the final she lost to Ireland and were thus second. In the main tournament, they lost their games against India and England, and retired so after the first round of.

First-class

By placing at the last World Cup Qualifier, the team for the ICC Intercontinental Cup 2009-2010, which will be played as a first-class tournament qualified. There it was able to prevail against the Netherlands, Ireland and Canada, and reached against Zimbabwe a draw. In the final, the team won against Scotland and won the tournament. In the edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup 2011-2013 they are also taking part.

International Tournaments

Cricket World Cup

World Twenty20

2007 does not qualify
2009 is not qualified
2010 preliminary round (Qualifying )
2012 preliminary round (Qualifying )

Documents

East Africa | East and Central Africa | West Africa

National Cricket Team
National (Afghanistan)

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