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Afghan cricket team in the UAE in 2023–24
Afghan cricket team in the UAE in 2023–24
	United Arab Emirates
Dates	25 December – 2 January 2024
Captains	Muhammad Waseem
Twenty20 International series
Results	Afghanistan won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Muhammad Waseem (84)
Most wickets	Muhammad Jawadullah (6)

The Afghanistan men's cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in December 2023 and January 2024 to play three Twenty20 International (T20I) and two 50-over matches.^[1] This was Afghanistan second tour of the UAE this year,^[2] with Afghanistan winning the T20I series 2–1 in February 2023.^[3] The T20I series formed part of Afghanistan's preparation for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament.^[4] The dates for the tour were confirmed in December 2023.^[5]

Squads

United Arab Emirates		Afghanistan
50-overs	T20Is^[6]	50-overs^[7]	T20Is^[8]
Muhammad Waseem (c) Ayman Ahamed Mayank Chowdary Rahul Chopra Muhammad Jawadullah Aayan Afzal Khan Nilansh Keswani Sagar Kalyan Dhruv Parashar Omid Rahman Akif Raja Tanish Suri (wk) Samal Udawaththa Muhammad Zuhaib	Muhammad Waseem (c) Vriitya Aravind (wk) Basil Hameed Muhammad Jawadullah Aayan Afzal Khan Nilansh Keswani Aryan Lakra Ali Naseer Dhruv Parashar Omid Rahman Akif Raja Khalid Shah (wk) Tanish Suri (wk) Junaid Siddique Samal Udawaththa	Hashmatullah Shahidi (c) Fareed Ahmad Ikram Alikhil (wk) Sharafuddin Ashraf Qais Ahmad Yamin Ahmadzai Mohammad Ishaq (wk) Riaz Hassan Gulbadin Naib Azmatullah Omarzai Abdul Rahman Zia-ur-Rehman Darwish Rasooli Bahir Shah Bilal Sami Rahmat Shah Ibrahim Zadran	Ibrahim Zadran (c) Fareed Ahmad Noor Ahmad Sediqullah Atal Sharafuddin Ashraf Qais Ahmad Fazalhaq Farooqi Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Naveen-ul-Haq Mohammad Ishaq (wk) Karim Janat Mohammad Nabi Azmatullah Omarzai Darwish Rasooli Mohammad Saleem Rahmat Shah Hazratullah Zazai Najibullah Zadran

Ijaz Ahmad Ahmadzai, Ikram Alikhil, Rashid Khan and Gulbadin Naib were included in the Afghanistan T20I squad as reserves.^[9]

25 December 2023
09:30
Scorecard

Afghanistan 214 (47.2 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates Falcons 105 (30.4 overs)
Bahir Shah 44 (64) Akif Raja 3/40 (6.2 overs)		Dhruv Parashar 38* (61) Yamin Ahmadzai 5/22 (6.4 overs)

Afghanistan won by 109 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Aasif Iqbal (UAE)

27 December 2023
09:30
Scorecard

Afghanistan 249/7 (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates Falcons 154 (42.2 overs)
Sharafuddin Ashraf 63* (41) Aayan Afzal Khan 3/15 (8 overs)		Rahul Chopra 40 (71) Fareed Ahmad 3/17 (5 overs)

Afghanistan won by 95 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Shiju Sam (UAE)

29 December 2023
18:00 (D/N)
Scorecard

Afghanistan 203/3 (20 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 131/4 (20 overs)
Rahmanullah Gurbaz 100 (52) Aayan Afzal Khan 1/26 (4 overs)		Vriitya Aravind 70* (64) Fazalhaq Farooqi 2/19 (4 overs)

Afghanistan won by 72 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Aasif Iqbal (UAE) and Shiju Sam (UAE)
Player of the match: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afg)

31 December 2023
18:00 (D/N)
Scorecard

United Arab Emirates 166/7 (20 overs)	v	Afghanistan 155 (19.5 overs)
Aryan Lakra 63 (47) Qais Ahmad 2/15 (3 overs)		Mohammad Nabi 47 (27) Ali Naseer 4/24 (4 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 11 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Shiju Sam (UAE)
Player of the match: Ali Naseer (UAE)

2 January 2024
18:00 (D/N)
Scorecard

United Arab Emirates 126/9 (20 overs)	v	Afghanistan 128/6 (18.3 overs)
Muhammad Waseem 27 (25) Naveen-ul-Haq 4/20 (4 overs)		Hazratullah Zazai 36 (32) Junaid Siddique 2/32 (3.3 overs)

Afghanistan won by 4 wickets
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Aasif Iqbal (UAE)
Player of the match: Naveen-ul-Haq (Afg)