The Afghanistan cricket team toured Bangladesh in February and March 2022 to play three One Day International (ODI) and two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. The ODI series formed part of the inaugural 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. On 1 February 2022, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed the schedule for the tour. The ODI matches were played in Chittagong, and the T20I matches in Dhaka.
On 13 February 2022, the Afghanistan team arrived in Sylhet to begin a week-long training camp ahead of the matches. However, shortly after the team arrived, eight Afghan cricketers and three members of their support staff tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the entire touring party was asked to go into isolation for 48 hours before fresh tests were conducted. On 16 February 2022, all of Afghanistan's touring party returned negative COVID-19 tests. The team had requested a second round of testing after they believed the first round returned false positives.
In the first ODI, Afghanistan made 215 runs in their innings. In reply, Bangladesh were reduced to 45/6 in the twelfth over of their run chase, with Fazalhaq Farooqi taking four wickets. 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. The 174-run stand between Afif Hossain and Mehidy Hasan was the highest seventh-wicket partnership for Bangladesh in an ODI match, and the second-highest seventh-wicket partnership in ODI cricket. In the second ODI, Litton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim set a new third-wicket partnership record for Bangladesh, with 202 runs. Bangladesh went on to beat Afghanistan by 88 runs, winning the series with a match to play. Afghanistan won the third ODI by seven wickets, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz scoring an unbeaten century. Bangladesh won the ODI series 2–1.
The T20I series was drawn 1–1. Bangladesh had won the first T20I match by 61 runs, after making 155/8 in their innings, and bowling Afghanistan out for 94 runs. Afghanistan won the second T20I match by eight wickets.
Squads ODIsT20Is Tamim Iqbal (c) Nasum Ahmed Taskin Ahmed Yasir Ali Litton Das Mehidy Hasan Shakib Al Hasan Afif Hossain Ebadot Hossain Shoriful Islam Mahmudul Hasan Joy Mahmudullah Mushfiqur Rahim Mustafizur Rahman Najmul Hossain Shanto Hashmatullah Shahidi (c) Rahmat Shah (vc) Fareed Ahmad Yamin Ahmadzai Ikram Alikhil Fazalhaq Farooqi Rahmanullah Gurbaz Riaz Hassan Rashid Khan Azmatullah Omarzai Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Mujeeb Ur Rahman Shahidullah Ibrahim Zadran Najibullah Zadran Mahmudullah (c) Nasum Ahmed Taskin Ahmed Yasir Ali Litton Das Mahedi Hasan Nurul Hasan Shakib Al Hasan Afif Hossain Shohidul Islam Shoriful Islam Mohammad Naim Mushfiqur Rahim Mustafizur Rahman Munim Shahriar Mohammad Nabi (c) Fareed Ahmad Qais Ahmad Sharafuddin Ashraf Fazalhaq Farooqi Usman Ghani Rahmanullah Gurbaz Karim Janat Rashid Khan Nijat Masood Azmatullah Omarzai Mujeeb Ur Rahman Darwish Rasooli Najibullah Zadran Afsar Zazai Hazratullah Zazai
Qais Ahmad and Mohammad Saleem were both named as travelling reserves in Afghanistan's team for the ODI matches. Prior to the first T20I match, Nurul Hasan was added to Bangladesh's squad, after Mushfiqur Rahim suffered an injury.
ODI series 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
T20I series 1st T20I
2nd T20I
References
External links Series home at ESPN Cricinfo