Afghan national cricket team
| ICC Rankings |
Current |
Best-ever |
| Test |
– |
|
| ODI |
10th |
|
| T20I |
9th |
|
| Tests |
Played |
Won/Lost |
| Total |
0 |
0/0 (0 draws) |
| This year |
0 |
0/0 (0 draws) |
| ODIs |
Played |
Won/Lost |
| Total |
83 |
42/39
(0 Tied/2 NR) |
| This year |
13 |
7/5 (1 NR) |
| T20Is |
Played |
Won/Lost |
| Total |
61 |
39/22 (0 NR) |
| This year |
10 |
7/3 |
The Afghanistan national cricket team represents the country of Afghanistan in international cricket and the 12th Test cricket playing Full Member nation. Cricket has been played in Afghanistan since the mid 19th century, but it is only in recent years that the national team has become successful. The Afghanistan Cricket Board was formed in 1995 and became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001 and a member of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in 2003.
They are ranked 9th in International Twenty20 cricket as of 7 January 2017 ahead of full members Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. In the same year they won their first Intercontinental Cup, beating Scotland in the final. Afghanistan also won the Asia Vs Caribbean T20 Championship and beat Trindad and Tobago, Bangladesh and Barbados.
After nearly a decade of playing top class international cricket, on 22 June 2017, in an ICC meeting in London, full ICC membership (Test status) was granted to Afghanistan (concurrently with Ireland), taking the number of Test cricket playing nations to twelve.
Afghanistan qualified for 2012 ICC World Twenty20 held in Sri Lanka as the runner up of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier and joined India and England in the group stage. In the first match against India on 19 September, Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field. India posted 159/5 in 20 overs but Afghanistan fell short of that target by scoring 136 in 19.3 overs. In the second match against England on 21 September, Afghanistan won the toss and again elected to field. England set a target of 196/5 (20 overs) but Afghanistan were all out for 80 in 17.2 overs. England and India qualified for the Super Eights and Afghanistan were eliminated as a result of this match.
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Scotland at Willowmoore Park, Benoni; 19 April 2009
West Indies at Darren Sammy Stadium, Gros Islet; 14 June 2017
Ireland at P Sara Oval, Colombo; 1 February 2010