Today we will talk about United Arab Emirates National Cricket Team vs Afghanistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard. Both the team did not achieve great achievements in the world cricket. Still both of them are doing so well these days that one day they will be in the elite club of the world cricket. United Arab Emirates are not still at that stage but they are improving day by day in every series. On the other hand, Afghanistan earned a lot of respect as they are playing a world class cricket. In 2015 world cup Afghanistan got the chance to play the tournament and form there they always improved their game in every single match.
Even in the recent Twenty 20 world they defeated New Zealand and Australia. This was one of the greatest achievement for them. Let’s take a look into the face offs between Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates.
Afghanistan Cricket Team: United Arab Emirates National Cricket Team vs Afghanistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard
This team has played a very great cricket in past few years and now they are one of the most emerging cricket team. Afghanistan got a lot of support from India to get the training of cricket. In 2017 this team played their first test match. The ICC ranking in the world cricket in Test Internationals is 12th and in One Day Internationals the rank of this team is 9th and last but not least the twenty ICC ranking of this team is 10th among all the teams.
Hashmatullah Shahidi is the captain of Afghanistan cricket team in Test and One Day Internationals. In twenty 20 format Rashid Khan is the captain of this format. Jonathan Trott is the Head Coach of this team. Batting coach of this Team is Andrew Puttick. The Bowling Coach of this team is Hamid Hassan. Fielding Coach of Afghanistan is Shane McDermott.
United Arab Emirates: United Arab Emirates National Cricket Team vs Afghanistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard
This team has not played much cricket still they have played good cricket in all the matches. They fought till the end in all the matches no matter which team was playing in against of them. UAE did not play any test cricket yet. Muhammad Waseem is the captain of UAE in One Day Internationals and in T20 as well. Lalchand Rajput is the head coach of this team. Their ranking in One Day Internationals is 20th and in Twenty 20 their ranking is 16th. This country loves to watch cricket and love to host the Indian Premier League as well. They hosted IPL in 2-3 seasons and they live to do that and the people who live there love to watch cricket so they are also working in the field of cricket.
Face Off: United Arab Emirates National Cricket Team vs Afghanistan National Cricket Team Match Scorecard
Both these teams played a T20 series in the starting of the year 2024. This series was started in the ned of the year 2023. The first match was played on 29th December 2023. Afghanistan won this series against United Arab Emirates. Afghanistan won 2 matches and United Arab Emirates won 1 match.
Scorecard
Afghanistan
BATTING R B 4s 6s SR
Hazratullah Zazai 27 29 2 0 93.10
Rahmanullah Gurbaz 15 11 3 0 136.36
Ibrahim Zadran 1 4 0 0 25.00
Afsar Zazai 18 24 2 0 75.00
Najibullah Zadran 37 29 5 1 127.58
Karim Janat 7 7 1 0 100.00
Azmatullah Omarzai 12 9 2 0 133.33
Rashid Khan (c) 14 7 1 1 200.00
BOWLING O M R W ECON WD NB
Junaid Siddique 4 0 27 1 6.75 1 0
Akif Raja 4 0 23 1 5.75 3 0
Zahoor Khan 4 0 25 2 6.25 0 0
Rohan Mustafa 4 0 30 0 7.50 1 0
Zawar Farid 4 0 31 2 7.75 0 0
UAE
BATTING R B 4s 6s SR
Muhammad Waseem 91 50 8 7 182.00
Vriitya Aravind 38 46 2 0 82.60
CP Rizwan (c) 9 14 1 0 64.28
BOWLING O M R W ECON WD NB
Azmatullah Omarzai 3.2 0 31 0 9.30 0 0
Mujeeb Ur Rahman 4 0 40 0 10.00 0 0
Naveen-ul-Haq 2 0 23 0 11.50 0 0
Fareed Ahmad 3 0 15 0 5.00 0 0
Rashid Khan 4 0 16 0 4.00 0 0
Karim Janat 2 0 13 1 6.50 0 0
This was the only match which Afghanistan lost.
Upcoming Fixtures
According to the fixtures of both the team there is no sign that they are going to face each other in any of the bilateral series in the coming time. We all can see them play together after a good period of wait. These both the teams were the weak teams. Afghanistan had come out from this weaker zone and now they are best contender and the competitor for any of the team. UAE is still not at that level that they can compete with the world class teams. They are also working well and it seems that they will be one of the best team among all the cricketing team in the world.
Conclusion
Lastly, we want to say that these both the teams played good number of matches and helped each other to grow more and more in the world cricket. As we have seen the rise of Afghanistan Cricket Team the same way we will surely witness the rise of UAE in the coming time. Till then let’s enjoy crciekt.
