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Afsar Zazai

Team flagAFG30 yrs
batting styleWicketKeeper Batter
Career & Stats
Batting
Bowling

Afsar Zazai Recent Form

Batting

AFG-A vs OMN, T200 (7)
AFG-A vs OMN, T2010 (9)
AFG-A vs OMN, T200 (4)
AFG-A vs OMN, T2029 (30)
AFG vs IND, T20I15 (20)
AFG vs PAK, T20I13 (21)
AFG vs SL, T20I1 (3)
AFG vs BAN, Test36 (40)
AFG vs BAN, Test6 (12)
AFG vs UAE, T20I13 (19)
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Bowling

AFG vs IND, Test0-16
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Afsar Zazai Carrer Stats

Batting

FormatMatInnR100s50sHSSRAvgFoursSixesDuckRank
ODI1716264026054.0917.60150----
T20I88141004881.9817.6393----
Test610214004846.1223.78232----
WC ODI6636001936.366.0010----

Bowling

FormatMatInnWEconAvgBest3W5WSRMaidenRank
ODI17000.000.000000.00----
T20I8000.000.000000.00----
Test6000.000.000000.00----
WC ODI6000.000.000-0000.00----

Carrer Debut Information

ODI Debut
U.A.E. vs Afghanistan at ICCA Dubai - November 28, 2014
T20I Debut
Kenya vs Afghanistan at Sharjah - October 11, 2013
Test Debut
India vs Afghanistan at Bengaluru - June 14 - 15, 2018

Teams played for

Afghanistan Afghanistan A Afghanistan Under-19s Band-e-Amir Region Mis Ainak Knights

About Afsar Zazai

NameAfsar Zazai
GenderMale
Birth10 Aug 1993
Birth PlaceKabul Afghanistan
Height5ft 6in
NationalityAfghan

Yet another wicketkeeper-batsman from the reserve stocks of Afghanistan, Afsar Zazai. The keeper-batsman is a young talented orthodox keeper, whose secondary role is batting. As a 16-year-old, Zazai was touted to be one of the finest glovemen to represent his country. However, Mohammad Shahzad’s presence has forced the youngster’s career to kickstart a little late. ... continue reading

Player Bio

Yet another wicketkeeper-batsman from the reserve stocks of Afghanistan, Afsar Zazai. The keeper-batsman is a young talented orthodox keeper, whose secondary role is batting. As a 16-year-old, Zazai was touted to be one of the finest glovemen to represent his country. However, Mohammad Shahzad’s presence has forced the youngster’s career to kickstart a little late. 

As a young virtuoso, Zazai donned Afghanistan colors at an age of 16 years at the U-17 level during the Asian Cricket Council Challenge Cup, which forced his way to the 2010 U-19 World Cup. The youngster flourished at the Junior World Cup and finished the tournament as one of the most successful keepers. He was also part of the squad for the 2012 event and repeated the feat in the succeeding competition. 

At 18 years of age, the keeper-batsman made his first-class debut during the ICC Intercontinental Cup game against the Netherlands, where he scored a composed 84 and took six fine catches. A year later, he made his T20I debut against Kenya, before making his ODI debut against UAE. Zazai celebrated his ODI debut with a fighting knock of 60 runs, apart from producing a stumping and a catch.

Zazai was also part of Afghanistan’s squad for the 2015 World Cup and played in the tournament ahead of Shahzad. However, he didn’t have the best of times with bat but grabbed six splendid catches in the ICC event to earn applause for his work behind the stumps.

In March 2017, the Kabul-born scored his maiden first-class century against Ireland and helped Afghanistan post a mammoth first innings total of 537 runs. A year later, he made his Test debut against India at Bangalore. 

More often than not, Zazai gets sidelined from the selection due to the problem of plenty in the wicketkeeping department. The team has half of the dozen for the position and all of Zazai’s competitors are more explosive batters than him. However, his clean glovework makes his case stronger, at least in the longer formats. 

(As of March 2021)