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Asghar Stanikzai

Asghar Stanikzai
Personal information
Full name Mohammad Asghar Stanikzai
Born (1987-02-22) 22 February 1987 (age 29)
Kabul, Afghanistan
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role Middle order batsman
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 1) 19 April 2009 v Scotland
Last ODI 1 October 2016 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no. 44
T20I debut (cap 1) 1 February 2010 v Ireland
Last T20I 18 December 2016 v UAE
T20I shirt no. 44
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 62 39 20 90
Runs scored 1,202 745 1,037 1,697
Batting average 21.46 22.57 35.75 20.20
100s/50s 0/6 0/3 2/3 0/7
Top score 90* 63 127 90*
Balls bowled 133 4 75 200
Wickets 2 1 0 2
Bowling average 45.00 4.00 76.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a n/a
Best bowling 1/22 1/4 1/22
Catches/stumpings 13/– 14/– 15/– 17/–
Source: CricketArchive, 4 January 2017

Mohammad Asghar Stanikzai (Pashto: محمد اصغر ستانکزی‎; born 22 February 1987) is an Afghan cricketer and current captain of the Afghan national cricket team. Stanikzai is a right-handed batsman and a medium-fast bowler who plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team.

Stanikzai made his representative international debut for Afghanistan U-17s in the 2004 ACC Under-17 competition, where he played his debut match against the United Arab Emirates Under-17s. Stanikzai's debut match for the senior squad came against Oman in the 2004 ACC Trophy, as well as the 2006 ACC Trophy and the 2007 ACC Twenty20 Cup.

Stanikzai was a member of the Afghanistan side, that from 2008 to 2009 won the World Cricket League Division Five, Division Four and Division Three, earning them promotion to Division Two and allowing them to take part in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier where they gained One Day International status.

In the World Cup Qualifier, Stanikzai made his List-A debut for Afghanistan against Bermuda and later in the tournament he made his One Day International debut against Scotland. His first-class debut came in Intercontinental Cup against a Zimbabwe XI in which Afghanistan drew the match. To date, Stanikzai has played in 4 first-class matches for Afghanistan. Later, in November 2009 he was a member of Afghanistan's 2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup winning squad.


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