Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan, Asia Cup Match: Afghanistan Squad's T20 Stats

27.08.2022 - 12:21 sports.ndtv.com

A match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan on Saturday will serve as the curtain raiser for the Asia Cup 2022. Both the sides will be aiming to start the tournament on a winning note as their group seems to be a really competitive one, given the third team that will be their opponent in the group is Bangladesh.

Only two teams out of the three could advance to the Super 4s. Afghanistan will try and fancy their chances to earn at least one of the top two spots in the group by the end of the round-robin stage. Before Afghanistan start their Asia Cup campaign, have a look at their players' T20 stats: Mohammad Nabi (c): The Afghanistan captain is among the best all-rounders in the world.

He holds an experience of 342 T20 matches. While Nabi has scored 5134 runs, he also alo picked 312 wickets. Najibullah Zadran: The batter has played 169 T20s and scored 3272 runs with his best score being 97 not out.

His strike rate is 139.35. Afsar Zazai: The wicketkeeper-batter has played 29 T20s and scored 534 runs. His highest score in the format is 67 not out.

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The Afghanistan-Pakistan Super 4 match at the Asia Cup on Wednesday was a closely fought one with the latter prevailing in the last over of a 130-run chase. Courtesy the win, Pakistan set up a final clash with Sri Lanka on Sunday. However, the match between the Babar Azam-led Pakistan and the Mohammad Nabi-led Afghanistan was also witness to some untoward incident between Asif Ali and Fareed Ahmed Malik. It happened in the 19th over after Pakistan batter Ali was dismissed by Malik.

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