Afghan cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2023–24
| Afghan cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2023–24 | |||
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| Sri Lanka | Afghanistan | ||
| Dates | 2 – 21 February 2024 | ||
| Captains |
Dhananjaya de Silva (Test) Kusal Mendis (ODIs) Wanindu Hasaranga (T20Is) |
Hashmatullah Shahidi (Test & ODIs) Ibrahim Zadran (T20Is) | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | Sri Lanka won the 1-match series 1–0 | ||
| Most runs | Angelo Mathews (141) | Rahmat Shah (145) | |
| Most wickets | Prabath Jayasuriya (8) | Naveed Zadran (4) | |
| One Day International series | |||
| Results | Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 3–0 | ||
| Most runs | Pathum Nissanka (346) | Azmatullah Omarzai (206) | |
| Most wickets | Pramod Madushan (8) |
Qais Ahmad (3) Azmatullah Omarzai (3) | |
| Player of the series | Pathum Nissanka (SL) | ||
| Twenty20 International series | |||
The Afghanistan cricket team are touring Sri Lanka in February 2024.[1][2] The tour consists of one Test, three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[3] In November 2023, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced its international calendar for 2024 and confirmed the bilateral series.[4] In January 2024, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour.[5]
This was the first Test match played between the two sides.[6] The T20I series will form part of both teams' preparation for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[7]
Squads
On 3 January 2024, Dhananjaya de Silva and Kusal Mendis were appointed Sri Lanka's Test captain and vice-captain respectively.[14][15] With Mendis and Wanindu Hasaranga were appointed as Sri Lanka's ODI and T20I captain respectively,[16] this was the first time Sri Lanka had three different captains in the three formats.[17]
Afghanistan also named Sharafuddin Ashraf, Shahidullah, Abdul Rahman and Bilal Sami as reserves for the ODI series.[18]
Afghanistan's Mujeeb Ur Rahman was ruled out of ODI series due to an injury.[19] For the last ODI, Sharafuddin Ashraf was added to the Afghanistan's squad as his replacement.[20]
On 11 February 2024, Asitha Fernando replaced injured Dushmantha Chameera in the Sri Lanka's squad for the last two ODIs.[21][22]
2024 ජනවාරි 3 දින ධනංජය ද සිල්වා සහ කුසල් මෙන්ඩිස් පිළිවෙලින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා ටෙස්ට් නායකයා සහ උපනායකයා ලෙස පත් කරන ලදී.[15][16] මෙන්ඩිස් සහ වනිඳු හසරංග පිළිවෙලින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා එක්දින සහ විස්සයි20 නායකයා ලෙස පත් කිරීමත් සමඟ,[17] ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ආකෘති තුනෙහිම වෙනස් නායකයින් තිදෙනෙකු සිටි පළමු අවස්ථාව මෙය විය.[18]
ඇෆ්ගනිස්තානය ෂරෆුදීන් අෂ්රෆ්, ෂහිදුල්ලා, අබ්දුල් රහ්මන් සහ බිලාල් සාමි ද එක්දින තරඟාවලිය සඳහා සංචිත ලෙස නම් කර ඇත.[19]
ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථානයේ මුජීබ් උර් රහ්මාන් ආබාධයක් හේතුවෙන් එක්දින තරඟාවලියෙන් ඉවත් විය. අවසන් එක්දින තරගය සඳහා ඔහු වෙනුවට ඇෆ්ගනිස්ථාන සංචිතයට ෂරෆුදීන් අෂ්රෆ් එක් කරන ලදී.[21]
2024 පෙබරවාරි 11 වන දින, අසිත ප්‍රනාන්දු ආබාධයකට ලක් වූ දුෂ්මන්ත චමීර වෙනුවට අවසන් එක්දින තරග දෙක සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංචිතයට ඇතුළත් කළේය.[22][23]
Only Test
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- Chamika Gunasekara (SL), Noor Ali Zadran, Zia-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Saleem and Naveed Zadran (Afg) all made their Test debuts.
- Dhananjaya de Silva captained Sri Lanka for the first time in Tests.[23][24]
- Kasun Rajitha replaced Chamika Gunasekara as concussion substitute for Sri Lanka on day 3 during Afghanistan's second innings.[25][26]
- Ibrahim Zadran (Afg) scored his first century in Tests.[27]
ODI series
1st ODI
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- Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.
- Pathum Nissanka (SL) became the first Sri Lankan to score an ODI double century.[28][29]
- Afghanistan scored their highest total in ODIs.[30]
2nd ODI
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
3rd ODI
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- Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
- Pathum Nissanka became the fastest batsman for Sri Lanka, to reach 2,000 runs in ODIs, in terms of innings (52).[31]
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
3rd T20I
Notes
- ^ While five days of play were scheduled for the Test, the Test reached a result in four days.
References
- ^ "ACB Confirm All-Format Tour to Sri Lanka and Home Series against Ireland". Afghanistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Afghanistan lock in all-format series against Sri Lanka and Ireland". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Sri Lanka announce men's fixtures for 2024 season". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ "Men's 2024 Future Tours Program of Sri Lanka Cricket". Sri Lanka Cricket. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ "Afghanistan to play Tests against Sri Lanka and Ireland in February". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Sri Lanka to play 10 Tests and 42 white ball matches in 2024". Daily FT. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ "Afghanistan set to play multi-format series against Sri Lanka, Ireland before T20 World Cup". Cricket Country. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Sri Lanka name uncapped Gunasekara, Rathnayake and Udara for Afghanistan Test". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "Sri Lanka drop Shanaka for ODIs against Afghanistan". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ "Sri Lanka name T20I squad for Afghanistan series". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ "ACB Name Squad for the One-Off Test Match against Sri Lanka". Afghansitan Cricket Board. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "Naib back in Afghanistan's ODI squad for SL series; Rashid still recovering". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Veteran continues to recover as Afghanistan name T20I squads". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ "Dhananjaya de Silva becomes Sri Lanka's 18th Test captain". Daily FT. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Dhananjaya de Silva replaces Dimuth Karunaratne as Sri Lanka's Test captain". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Kusal Mendis, Wanindu Hasaranga named captains as Sri Lanka announce preliminary squads for Zimbabwe series". India TV News. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Mendis replaces Shanaka as Sri Lanka's ODI captain; Hasaranga to lead in T20Is". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ "Afghanistan name ODI squad for Sri Lanka series". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Mujeeb Ur Rahman ruled out of 3-match ODI series". Ceylon Today. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ @ACBofficials (14 February 2024). "We have made two changes from our previous game, with Sharafuddin Ashraf and Fareed Ahmad coming in for Gulbadin Naib and Noor Ahmad. Sharafuddin Ashraf was added to the squad as a replacement for Mujeeb Ur Rahman" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Chameera out of second ODI with quadriceps injury". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Dushmantha Chameera ruled out. Replacement named". Newswire. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ "Sri Lanka appoint Dhananjaya de Silva new Test captain". Wisden. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ "It's a mismatch on paper, but Afghanistan's batters can take the fight to Sri Lanka". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ "Afghanistan bowl out hosts Sri Lanka for 439". The Daily Star. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Chamika Gunasekara subbed out on Test debut after blow to the head". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "AFG vs SL: Ibrahim Zadran hits maiden century to help Afghanistan reduce first innings deficit to 42 against Sri Lanka". Sportstar. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Pathum Nissanka, Sri Lanka's first double-centurion? Who'd have thought?". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- ^ "Pathum Nissanka becomes first Sri Lankan to smash ODI double century; surpasses Tendulkar, Sehwag, Gayle for insane feat". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Pathum Nissanka hits Sri Lanka's first double-century in ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Nissanka and Avishka blitz Afghanistan in Sri Lanka's clean sweep". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 February 2024.