Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2014–15

Afghanistan cricket team in UAE 2014
		United Arab Emirates		Afghanistan
Dates		28 November 2014 – 4 December 2014
Captains		Khurram Khan		Mohammad Nabi
One Day International series
Result		United Arab Emirates won the 4-match series 3–1
Most runs		Khurram Khan 270		Nawroz Mangal 239
Most wickets		Krishna Chandran 6		Hamid Hassan 6

The Afghanistan national cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates from 28 November to 4 December 2014. The tour consisted of four One Day International matches between UAE and Afghanistan.^[1][2] The United Arab Emirates won the series 3–1.

Squads

Squads
UAE[3]	Afghanistan[4]
Khurram Khan (C) Ahmed Raza Amjad Ali Amjad Javed Andri Berenger Faizan Asif Fayyaz Ahmed Manjula Guruge Kamran Shazad Krishna Chandran Mohammad Naveed Mohammad Shahzad Mohammad Tauqir Nasir Aziz Swapnil Patil (WK) Rohan Mustafa Saqib Ali Saqlain Haider (WK) Shaiman Anwar Salman Farooq	Mohammad Nabi (C) Nawroz Mangal (VC) Afsar Zazai Asghar Stanikzai Dawlat Ahmadzai Gulbadin Naib Javed Ahmadi Mirwais Ashraf Najibullah Zadran Nasir Jamal Samiullah Shenwari Shafiqullah (WK) Shapoor Zadran Sharafuddin Ashraf Usman Ghani Aftab Alam Farid Malik Hamid Hassan Izatullah Dawlatzai

ODI series

1st ODI

28 November 2014 Scorecard

Afghanistan  248/6 (50 overs)	v	UAE 249/5 (48.4 overs)
Afsar Zazai 60 (109) Krishna Chandran 2/37 (7 overs)		Amjad Ali 67 (79) Mohammad Nabi 2/41 (10 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 5 wickets ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Johan Cloete (South Africa) and Richard Kettleborough (England) Player of the match: Amjad Ali (UAE)

• Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
• Afsar Zazai (Afghanistan) and Andri Berenger (UAE) made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI

30 November 2014 Scorecard

Afghanistan  280/8 (50 overs)	v	UAE 282/4 (48.2 overs)
Nawroz Mangal 129 (123) Krishna Chandran 3/45 (9 overs)		Khurram Khan 132* (138) Dawlat Zadran 2/45 (10 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Johan Cloete (South Africa) and Richard Kettleborough (England) Player of the match: Khurram Khan (UAE)

• UAE won the toss and elected to field.
• Salman Farooq (UAE) made his ODI debut.

3rd ODI

2 December 2014 Scorecard

UAE 273/5 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 276/8 (49.4 overs)
Khurram Khan 85* (80) Dawlat Zadran 2/51 (10 overs)		Javed Ahmadi 67 (45) Rohan Mustafa 2/33 (10 overs)

Afghanistan won by 2 wickets ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Richard Kettleborough (England) and Sarika Prasad (Singapore) Player of the match: Mirwais Ashraf (Afghanistan)

• Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.
• Farid Malik (Afghanistan), Nasir Aziz and Saqlain Haider (both UAE) made their ODI debuts.

4th ODI

4 December 2014 Scorecard

UAE 258/9 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 228 (49.3 overs)
Andri Berenger 66 (72) Hamid Hassan 5/45 (10 overs)		Nawroz Mangal 48 (47) Kamran Shazad 3/45 (10 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 30 runs ICC Academy, United Arab Emirates Umpires: Johan Cloete (South Africa) and Richard Kettleborough (England)

• Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.

References

1. "Afghanistan tour of United Arab Emirates 2014/15". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
2. "United Arab Emirates vs Afghanistan". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
3. "United Arab Emirates Squad". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
4. "Afghanistan Squad". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 28 November 2014.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo