Samiullah Shenwari

Samiullah Shenwari

Personal information
Full name	Samiullah Shenwari
Born	31 December 1987 Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Leg break
Role	All-rounder
International information
National side	Afghanistan
ODI debut (cap 11)	19 April 2009 v Scotland
Last ODI	26 February 2015 v Scotland
T20I debut (cap 9)	1 February 2010 v Ireland
Last T20I	20 March 2014 v Nepal
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2011/12	Afghan Cheetahs
2013–present	Khulna Royal Bengals
2013/14	Mohammedan Sporting Club
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA Matches 47 25 14 71 Runs scored 1,194 295 466 1,584 Batting average 38.51 16.38 29.12 32.32 100s/50s 0/9 0/1 1/1 0/10 Top score 96 61 102 96 Balls bowled 1,671 424 1,580 2,588 Wickets 41 22 28 62 Bowling average 31.17 19.68 32.67 32.90 5 wickets in innings 0 1 0 0 10 wickets in match n/a n/a 0 n/a Best bowling 4/31 5/13 4/75 4/28 Catches/stumpings 9/– 6/– 11/– 18/–
Source: CricketArchive, 1 March 2015

Samiullah Shenwari (Pashto: سميع الله شينواري‎) (born December 31, 1987) is an Afghan cricketer who represents Afghanistan in international level. He is a right-handed batsman and leg break bowler who normally act as a batting all-rounder in the team.

Career

Shenwari is a part of the rapidly rising Afghan cricket team that in under a year has won the World Cricket League Division Five, Division Four and Division Three, thus promoting them to Division Two and allowing them to partake in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier where they gained ODI status.

He later played for the newly formed Afghan Cheetahs team in the Faysal Bank Twenty-20 Cup 2011-12.

Shenwari was run out just one run short of his highest score in ODIs. He had scored 82 against Kenya in Amstelveen in 2010. This was his fourth fifty in ODIs and his first against a Test nation.^[1]

Asghar Stanikzai and Shenwari added 164 runs for the sixth wicket for Afghanistan which was the highest sixth-wicket partnership in the Asia Cup beating the 112 runs added by Alok Kapali and Mahmudullah against India at National Stadium, Karachi in 2008.^[2]

The partnership was Afghanistan's highest for the sixth wicket in ODIs and their first century partnership for that wicket. Their previous highest partnership for the sixth wicket was 86 between Raees Ahmadzai and Shenwari against Scotland in Benoni in 2009. The partnership was also Afghanistan's third-highest partnership for any wicket and only their sixth hundred partnerships in ODIs.

International performance

T20I Five wicket hauls

#	Figures	Match	Opponent	Venue	City	Country	Year
1	5/13	20	Kenya	Sharjah Cricket Stadium	Sharjah	U.A.E	2013

International Awards

One-Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	Scotland	Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah	8 March 2013	9-1-42-3 ; 30* (49 balls, 1x4)	Afghanistan won by 5 wickets.[3]
2	Bangladesh	Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah	1 March 2014	81 (69 balls, 10x4, 1x6) ; 6-0-23-1 ; 1 ct.	Afghanistan won by 32 runs.[4]
3	Scotland	University Oval, Dunedin	26 February 2015	96 (147 balls, 7x4, 5x6)	Afghanistan won by 1 wicket.[5]

Twenty20 International Cricket

Man of the Match Awards

#	Series	Date	Against	Match Performance	Result
1	2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier	18 March 2012	Canada	61 (34 balls, 6x4, 3x6) ; 4-0-14-4	Afghanistan won by 41 runs.[6]
2	2014 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier	24 November 2013	Kenya	2 (2 balls) ; 4-0-13-5	Afghanistan won by 34 runs.[7]

Player of the Series Awards

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	2014 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier	2014	Bowling: 6 wickets with one five-wicket haul. avg. 8.50. Batting: 39 runs (4 matches)	Ireland won the series.[8]

References

1. Bangladesh's first-encounter blues, Afghan's first
2. Stanikzai and Shenwari engineer expert escape
3. "ICC World Cricket League Championship, 2011-2013/14 - 34th match".
4. "Asia Cup, 2014 - 5th match".
5. "ICC Cricket World Cup, 2015 - 17th match, Pool A".
6. "ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, 2012 - 37th match, Group A Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
7. "ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, 2014 - 56th match, Group B Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
8. "ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, 2014". ESPNcricinfo. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.

External links

• Samiullah Shinwari on cricketarchive
• Cricinfo