Afghan national cricket team in Zimbabwe in the 2014 season

The tour of the Afghan national cricket team to Zimbabwe in the 2014 season took place from July 13 to August 5, 2014. The international cricket tour was part of the 2014 international cricket season . It consisted of a four-game ODI series that ended 2-2. In addition, Afghanistan played two List A games and two first class games against the Zimbabwe national team.

prehistory

Originally, Afghanistan was supposed to travel to Zimbabwe in January 2014 for a tour, but this was canceled due to financial problems of the Zimbabwean Association. It is the first bilateral tour of Afghanistan that was agreed in the course of qualifying for the 2015 Cricket World Cup . Since Afghanistan, as an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council, is not allowed to carry out any tests , two 4-day first-class games were agreed instead.

Stages

Bulawayo

Venue of the tour

The following stadium was designated as the venue for the tour and was announced on June 27, 2014.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Bulawayo	Queens Sports Club	9,000	1st - 5th ODI

Squad

Zimbabwe	Afghanistan
Brendan Taylor ( K & wk ) Regis Chakabva ( wk ) Tendai Chatara Elton Chigumbura Timycen Maruma Hamilton Masakadza Shingi Masakadza Natsai M'shangwe Richmond Mutumbami Tinashe Panyangara Sikandar Raza Butt Donald Tiripano Prosper Utseya Malcolm Waller Sean Williams	Mohammad Nabi ( K ) Aftab Alam Ashgar Stanikzai Dawlat Zadran Gulbadin Naib Hashmatullah Shaidi Javed Ahmadi Mirwais Ashraf Nasir Jamal Noor Ali Zadran Rahmat Shah Samiullah Shenwari Mohammad Shafiqullah ( wk ) Shapoor Zadran Sharafuddin Ashraf Usman Ghani

Tour matches

July 13th scorecard	Bulawayo	Afghanistan 209 (50)	-	Zimbabwe A 193 (48.3)
		Afghanistan wins with 16 runs

July 15th scorecard	Bulawayo	Afghanistan 268-7 (50)	-	Zimbabwe A 272-3 (48)
		Zimbabwe A wins with 7 wickets

One-Day Internationals in Bulawayo

First ODI

July 18 scorecard	Queens Sports Club	Afghanistan 221-9 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 227-4 (50)
		Zimbabwe wins with 6 wickets

Second ODI

July 20 scorecard	Queens Sports Club	Afghanistan 256-7 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 257-2 (43.3)
		Zimbabwe wins with 8 wickets

Third ODI

July 22nd scorecard	Queens Sports Club	Zimbabwe 261-8 (50)	-	Afghanistan 264-8 (49.4)
		Afghanistan wins with 2 wickets

Fourth ODI

July 24th scorecard	Queens Sports Club	Afghanistan 259 (49.1)	-	Zimbabwe 159 (38)
		Afghanistan wins with 100 runs

Tour matches

First-class matches

July 27-30 scorecard	Harare	Afghanistan 105 (47.1) & 321 (92.5)	-	Zimbabwe A 165 (44.5) & 226 (75.5)
		Afghanistan wins with 35 runs

August 2-5 Scorecard	Harare	Afghanistan 169 (54.1) & 99 (38.3)	-	Zimbabwe A 157 (47.4) & 112-2 (24.3)
		Zimbabwe A wins with 8 wickets

statistics

The following cricket statistics were obtained on this tour.

ODIs
Batting
player	team	Games	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Sikandar Raza	Zimbabwe	4th	4th	210	70.00	141	1	0
Hamilton Masakadza	Zimbabwe	3	3	187	62.33	93	0	2
Usman Ghani	Afghanistan	4th	4th	175	43.75	118	1	0
Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan	4th	4th	155	38.75	54	0	1
Samiullah Shenwari	Afghanistan	4th	4th	151	37.75	65	0	1
bowling
player	team	Games	Overs	Wickets	Average	BBI	5W	10W
Donald Tiripano	Zimbabwe	3	25.1	7th	22.00	5/63	1	0
Sharafuddin Ashraf	Afghanistan	4th	36.2	6th	26.66	3/29	0	0
Dawlat Zadran	Afghanistan	4th	28	5	34.20	2/39	0	0
Aftab Alam	Afghanistan	2	17th	4th	18.50	2/30	0	0
Tinashe Panyangara	Zimbabwe	3	27	4th	38.50	2/58	0	0

Player of the Series

The following players were honored as Player of the Series .

series	Player of the Series
ODI	Sikandar Raza

Player of the Match

The following players were recognized as Player of the Match .

game	Player of the Match
1. ODI	Sean Williams
2. ODI	Sikandar Raza
3. ODI	Hamilton Masakadza
4. ODI	Donald Tiripano

Web links

• The series on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Umar Farooq and Firdose Moonda: Zimbabwe set to host Afghanistan next month ( English ) Cricinfo. December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
2. ↑ Firdose Moonda: Afghanistan's Zimbabwe tour canceled ( English ) Cricinfo. January 9, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Firdose Moonda: Afghanistan to play four ODIs in Zimbabwe ( English ) Cricinfo. June 27, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
4. ↑ Records / Afghanistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2014 / Most runs ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
5. ↑ Records / Afghanistan in Zimbabwe ODI Series, 2014 / Most wickets ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved February 5, 2016.