The Afghanistan team, which defeated the three reliable World Cup champions England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in India just 3 months ago, is coming to India again. The team will play the first match of the 3 T20 series in India tomorrow i.e. from 11th January. The series is important because of the challenge of the T20 World Cup to be held in June.

The FAFF team, which has recently shown amazing performance in the 50 overs cover, has won 63% of the total matches played in the T20 roster. However, no football player has won a match against FF Team India.

India-Afghanistan 5 T-20s, India won 4
There have been 5 matches between India and Afghanistan in T-20. India won 4 matches, while one match remained inconclusive. Of the 10 matches played between the two strong teams, India won 8. One match is tied, while the other is inconclusive.

Faf team won 62.80% T-20, won 17 out of 24 series.
Afghanistan’s overall T-20 record has been excellent. The team played its first T20 on 1 February 2010. Since then the team has played 121 matches and won 76. That means the winning percentage was 62.80%.

The team’s record in the motorcycle series was also excellent. The team made 24 series films and won 17 of them i.e. 70.83%. The team lost 5 series, while 2 also made films.

Afghanistan played a 3-match T20 series against India for the first time and till now the team has played most of the series against associate countries. However, he has been released for the West Indies team and Pakistan’s T-20 series. Therefore, danger may arise in India also.

Afghanistan from the final to the end of Asian Games
The Afghanistan team has participated in three different types of major tournaments in T-20. These include T-20 World Cup, Asia Cup and Asian Games. The team never reached the knockout round in the Asia Cup and World Cup.

Afghanistan had won the silver medal in the Asian Games only last year. Then the gold medal match against the Indian team was inconclusive due to rain. India had got the gold medal due to better T-20 ranking.

Top Performer: Shahzad Best Batsman, Raised Top Wicket Taker
Mohammad Shahzad and Rashid Khan were Afghanistan’s top performers in T-20. Shahzad scored the maximum 2048 runs for Afghanistan in this match, while Rashid Khan took the maximum 81 wickets.

Pathaha FFF Cricket in Refugee Camp of Pakistan
He became fond of cricket among the people of Afghanistan while staying in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Due to the war going on in the country in the 80s, a large number of Afghan citizens became refugees in Pakistan.

Cricket was already popular in Pakistan. After Pakistan became the world champion in 1992, sports became more famous there. The foreign children present in the Tab camp have also started playing cricket. Later, star fan players like Rashid Khan also emerged from similar refugee camps.

Afghanistan Cricket Board was formed in 1995. This board got affiliation from the International Cricket Council in 2001. Faf cricket was sanctioned by the Asian Cricket Council in 2003 and the team played its first international match in 2009. This match was played against Scotland in baseball.