Series Name: | Afghan cricket team in Bangladesh in 2021–22 |
Team1 Image: | Flag of Bangladesh.svg |
Team1 Name: | Bangladesh |
Team2 Image: | Flag of Afghanistan (2013–2021).svg |
Team2 Name: | Afghanistan |
From Date: | 23 February |
To Date: | 5 March 2022 |
Team1 Captain: | Tamim Iqbal (ODIs) Mahmudullah (T20Is) |
Team2 Captain: | Hashmatullah Shahidi (ODIs) Mohammad Nabi (T20Is) |
No Of Odis: | 3 |
Team1 Odis Won: | 2 |
Team2 Odis Won: | 1 |
Team1 Odis Most Runs: | Litton Das (223) |
Team2 Odis Most Runs: | Rahmat Shah (133) |
Team1 Odis Most Wickets: | Shakib Al Hasan (5) |
Team2 Odis Most Wickets: | Fazalhaq Farooqi (6) |
Player Of Odi Series: | Litton Das (Ban) |
No Of Twenty20s: | 2 |
Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 1 |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Litton Das (73) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Hazratullah Zazai (65) |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Nasum Ahmed (4) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Fazalhaq Farooqi (5) Azmatullah Omarzai (5) |
Player Of Twenty20 Series: | Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afg) |
The Afghanistan cricket team toured Bangladesh in February and March 2022 to play three One Day International (ODI) and two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[1] [2] The ODI series formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.[3] [4] On 1 February 2022, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed the schedule for the tour.[5] [6] The ODI matches took place in Chittagong, with the T20I matches played in Dhaka.[7] [8]
On 13 February 2022, the Afghanistan team arrived in Sylhet to begin a week-long training camp ahead of the matches.[9] However, shortly after the team arrived, eight Afghan cricketers and three members of their support staff tested positive for COVID-19.[10] As a result, the entire touring party was placed into isolation for 48 hours.[11] On 16 February 2022, all of Afghanistan's touring party returned negative COVID-19 tests.[12] The team had requested a second round of testing after they believed the first round returned false positives.[13]
In the first ODI, Afghanistan made 215 runs in their innings.[14] In reply, Bangladesh were reduced to 45/6 in the twelfth over of their run chase, with Fazalhaq Farooqi taking four wickets.[15] However, Afif Hossain and Mehidy Hasan then made an unbeaten 174-run partnership, with Bangladesh reaching 219/6 to win the match by four wickets.[16] The 174-run stand between Afif Hossain and Mehidy Hasan was the highest seventh-wicket partnership for Bangladesh in an ODI match,[17] and the second-highest seventh-wicket partnership in ODI cricket.[18] In the second ODI, Litton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim set a new third-wicket partnership record for Bangladesh, with 202 runs.[19] Bangladesh went on to beat Afghanistan by 88 runs, winning the series with a match to play.[20] Afghanistan won the third ODI by seven wickets, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz scoring an unbeaten century.[21] Bangladesh won the ODI series 2–1.[22]
The T20I series was drawn 1–1. Bangladesh had won the first T20I match by 61 runs,[23] after making 155/8 in their innings, and bowling Afghanistan out for 94 runs.[24] Afghanistan won the second T20I match by eight wickets.[25]
Qais Ahmad and Mohammad Saleem were both named as travelling reserves in Afghanistan's team for the ODI matches.[30] Prior to the first T20I match, Nurul Hasan was added to Bangladesh's squad, after Mushfiqur Rahim suffered an injury.[31]