Mohammad Shahzad replacement: Afghanistan Cricket Board announce Shahzad’s replacement for 2019 Cricket World Cup

Dixit Bhargav | 07/06/2019
Mohammad Shahzad replacement: Afghanistan Cricket Board announce Shahzad's replacement for 2019 Cricket World Cup

Mohammad Shahzad replacement: Afghanistan Cricket Board have announced their wicket-keeper batsman’s replacement for World Cup.

Afghanistan wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Shahzad has been ruled out of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Succumbing to a knee injury, Shahzad’s absence is highly likely to come as a massive blow for the Afghans in the ongoing showpiece event.

Other than Shahzad being an attacking opening batsman and a wicket-keeper, he is also a senior figure in their team. In the two matches which Shahzad has played in the tournament, he had scored 0 and 7.

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Afghanistan Cricket Board have announced Ikram Ali Khil as Shahzad’s replacement. Much like Shahzad, Ali Khil is also a wicket-keeper batsman. Having said that, he mostly bats in the middle-order. It would be interesting to see if Ali Khil will be promoted to open the batting or Afghanistan will change their batting order to accommodate him.

Having made his ODI debut in March this year, the 18-year old cricketer has played a couple of ODIs and one Test match. In the two ODIs against Ireland at Dehradun, Ali Khil scored 5* and 1. Representing his nation at this age in the World Cup, it is an opportunity which Ali Khil would be looking to bank upon.

Ali Khil was part of the Afghani team during both the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup in 2016 and 2018.

Talking about Afghanistan, they have lost both their matches (against Australia and Sri Lanka) so far in the tournament and would be looking to stage a comeback now.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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