Afghanistan Leave Out Rashid Khan For One-Test Match Against New Zealand, Hashmatullah Shahidi To lead
Rashid Khan is the highest wicket-taker for Afghanistan in Test cricket with 34 wickets in five matches including four fifers.
Kabul: All-rounder Rashid Khan improve to be relatively omitted from Afghanistan’s 20-member preliminary squad play inside of the one-off Try organic in the direction of New Zealand in More a relatively good determination Noida subsequent month. The Try organic will commence on September 9 and Rashid’s omission comes as a chief shock because the leg-spinner is Afghanistan’s absolute best wicket-taker inside of the format, having taken 34 wickets in 5 Tests at an nicely-universal of twenty-two.35, corresponding to 4 fifers.
He played his final Try for Afghanistan in 2021 in the direction of Zimbabwe in Abu Dhabi, where he took eleven wickets. Moreover, Rashid could be a achievable batter and has a half-century to his establish in Tests. The reverse reasonably good omissions inside of the part are Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Karim Janat, even supposing Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Gulbadin Naib and Azmatullah Omarzai had been covered inside of the preliminary squad.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board mentioned the final 15-member squad may be announced on the discontinue of a week-lengthy preparatory camp in More a relatively good determination Noida. The preliminary squad will arrive in India on August 28. “20 players had been selected for the coaching camp, and a 15-member squad may be selected to play the most easy Try organic in the direction of New Zealand after watching their effectivity and fitness,” mentioned an ACB launch. Hashmatullah Shahidi will lead the part.
“I'm satisfied to look some teenagers inside of the squad who performed magnificent in domestic cricket and have gotten the chance to be aspect of the Try squad for this Try organic,” mentioned ACB chairman Mirwais Ashraf.
Afghanistan Preliminary Squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Abdul Malik, Rahmat Shah, Baheer Shah Mahboob, Ikram Alikhel (wk), Shahidullah Kamal, Gulbadin Naib, Afsar Zazai (wk), Azmatullah Omarzai, Ziaurrahman Akbar, Shamsurrahman, Qais Ahmad, Zahir Khan, Nijat Masoud, Farid Ahmad Malik, Naveed Zadran, Khalil Ahmad and Yama Arab.
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