Ajay Jadeja has been roped in by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) as the mentor for the Afghanistan Cricket Team for ICC World Cup 2023. The former India team skipper will now have a lot of responsibility on his shoulders to guide the Afghan team. Afghanistan has been rather poor in World Cups and will be looking to change its downtrodden stats in the upcoming World Cup.
Afghanistan has won just a solitary game in their World Cup journey. Afghanistan won just 1 game in the 2015 World Cup when they took part in the tournament for the first time.
But in the next World Cup, i.e. 2019 World Cup, Afghanistan failed to win a single game.
It remains to be seen if the Afghanistan Cricket Team under the captaincy of Hashmatullah Shahidi and the mentorship of Ajay Jadeja be able to win games in the upcoming ICC World Cup 2023.
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Ajay Jadeja has played 15 test matches for India from 1992 to 2000, scoring 576 runs at 26.18 with 4 half-centuries to his name and a best of 96.
He has also represented India in 196 One Day Internationals (ODIs) during the period, having scored 5359 runs at 37.47 with 6 hundreds and 30 fifties to his name in the format.
He has also been part of 111 First Class and 291 List A games and has scored over 8000 runs in each format with 31 hundreds and 88 fifties combined in both formats of the game.
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Afghanistan National Cricket Team is currently in India for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, where they are scheduled to take the field against Bangladesh for its first game in this year’s event on October 7 in Dharamshala.
Afghanistan 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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