Former India captain Ajay Jadeja has been appointed as the mentor of the Afghanistan cricket team for the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023. The team is in India for the World Cup, which kicks off on October 5 in India with the final on November 19.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) took to ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) to announce Ajay Jadeja’s appointment as the team’s mentor on Monday, October 2. The former cricketer has joined the Afghanistan squad and is training them ahead of the World Cup. Taking to ‘X’, the Afghanistan Cricket Board wrote,
“ACB Appointed former Indian Captain and middle-order batter Ajay Jadeja as AfghanAtalan’s Mentor for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.”
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ACB Appointed former Indian Captain and middle-order batter Ajay Jadeja as AfghanAtalan's Mentor for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.
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— Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) October 2, 2023
Ajay Jadeja represented India at the International level from 1992 to 2000. He played 15 Test matches, scoring 576 runs at an average of 26.18 with four half-centuries. He also played 196 ODI matches, scoring 5359 runs at 37.47 with 6 hundreds and 30 fifties to his name.
Afghanistan’s squad for ICC ODI World Cup 2023
The Afghanistan Cricket Team will kick off their ICC ODI World Cup 2023 campaign on Saturday, October 7 against Bangladesh at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium in Dharamsala. Their first warm-up match leading into the World Cup was washed out due to rain. They will play against Sri Lanka in their second warm-up match on Tuesday, October 3 in Guwahati.
Hashmatullah Shahidi will be leading the 15-member Afghanistan squad in the tournament. The squad has a good mix of experience with the likes of Rashid Khan, and Mohammad Nabi. Rashid will be their trump card in the tournament. They will be hoping to pull off a few upsets at the World Cup.
Afghanistan’s World Cup squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi (C), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Abdul Rahman, Naveen-ul-Haq
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