Ibrahim Zadran

Ibrahim Zadran (Pashto: ابراهیم ځدراڼ; born 12 December 2001) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his Test match debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in September 2019.^[2]

Ibrahim Zadran

Zadran in 2022
Personal information
Born	(2001-12-12) 12 December 2001 (age 21) Khost, Afghanistan
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Relations	Noor Ali Zadran (uncle) Mujeeb Ur Rahman (cousin)^[1]
International information
National side	Afghanistan (2019-present)
Test debut (cap 15)	5 September 2019 v Bangladesh
Last Test	14 June 2023 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 48)	11 November 2019 v West Indies
Last ODI	15 October 2023 2023 v England
T20I debut (cap 41)	14 November 2019 v West Indies
Last T20I	27 March 2023 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2017–present	Mis Ainak Knights
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC Matches 5 21 24 19 Runs scored 362 955 530 1162 Batting average 36.20 50.26 26.50 38.73 100s/50s 0/3 4/4 0/2 2/7 Top score 87 162 64* 105 Balls bowled 12 – – 150 Wickets 1 – – 3 Bowling average 13.00 – – 24.66 5 wickets in innings 0 – – 0 10 wickets in match 0 – – 0 Best bowling 1/13 – – 1/13 Catches/stumpings 10/– 3/– 6/– 25/–
Source: Cricinfo, 7 June 2023

Domestic career

He made his List A debut for Mis Ainak Region in the 2017 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament on 11 August 2017.^[3] He made his Twenty20 debut for Mis Ainak Knights in the 2017 Shpageeza Cricket League on 12 September 2017.^[4]

In September 2018, he was named in Nangarhar's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.^[5]

In 2021, Ibrahim played for Boyne Hill in Berkshire. He played as an opener and scored 479 runs in 15 matches.^[6]

International career

In December 2017, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.^[7] He was the leading run-scorer for Afghanistan in the tournament, with 186 runs.^[8]

In December 2018, he was named in Afghanistan's under-23 team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.^[9]

In August 2019, he was named in Afghanistan's Test squad for their one-off match against Bangladesh.^[10][11] He made his Test debut for Afghanistan, in the one-off match against Bangladesh, on 5 September 2019.^[12] The following month, he was named in Afghanistan's squads for their series against the West Indies.^[13] He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Afghanistan, against the West Indies, on 11 November 2019.^[14] He made his T20I debut for Afghanistan, also against the West Indies, on 14 November 2019.^[15]

In December 2019, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.^[16] He was the leading run-scorer for Afghanistan in the tournament, with 240 runs in five matches.^[17] In June 2022, in the second match against Zimbabwe, Zadran scored his first century in ODI cricket, with an unbeaten 120 runs.^[18] In November 2022, he scored his second ODI century (106), against Sri Lanka in Pallekelle.^[19] He won the player of the match award. In the third match of the same series, he smashed 162 runs, breaking the record for highest score by a player from his country in this format.^[20] He ended the series with 278 runs at an average of 92.66, and won the player of the series award.^[21]

Six months later, in June 2023, he made 98 against Sri Lanka in the first match of the 2023 series, in Hambantota, winning the player of the match award.^[22] In four innings in Sri Lanka, he has scored 106, 10, 162 and 98.

References

1. "20 cricketers for the 2020s". The Cricketer Monthly. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
2. "Ibrahim Zadran". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
3. "4th Match, Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament at Khost, Aug 11, 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
4. "3rd Match, Shpageeza Cricket League at Kabul, Sep 12 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
5. "Gayle, Afridi, Russell: icons in Afghanistan Premier League". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
6. "Thames Valley Cricket League - Player History". www.tvlcricket.com. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
7. "Afghanistan Under-19s Squad / Players". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
8. "ICC Under-19 World Cup, 2017/18 - Afghanistan Under-19s: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
9. "Afghanistan Under-23s Squad". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
10. . Afghan Cricket Board. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
11. "Rashid Khan to lead new-look Afghanistan in Bangladesh Test". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
12. "Only Test, Afghanistan tour of Bangladesh at Chattogram, Sep 5-9 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
13. "Focus on youth as Afghanistan revamp squads for West Indies series". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
14. "3rd ODI (D/N), West Indies tour of India at Lucknow, Nov 11 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
15. "1st T20I (N), West Indies tour of India at Lucknow, Nov 14 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
16. "Afghanistan U19 squad announced for ICC U19 World Cup". Afghanistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
17. "ICC Under-19 World Cup, 2019/20 - Afghanistan Under-19s: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
18. "Bowlers, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shash help Afghanistan seal ODI series". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
19. "Ibrahim, Farooqi, Naib lead Afghanistan to comfortable win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
20. "Ibrahim Zadran breaks record during epic hundred against Sri Lanka". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
21. "Afghanistan tour of Sri Lanka 2022/23 Stats". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
22. "Ibrahim Zadran, seamers help Afghanistan stroll to a comfortable win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2023.

External links

• Ibrahim Zadran at ESPNcricinfo