Samiullah Shenwari

Samiullah Shenwari
Personal information
Full name Samiullah Shenwari
Born 31 December 1987 (1987-12-31) (age 24)
Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Leg break
Role All-rounder
International information
National side Afghanistan
ODI debut 19 April 2009 v Scotland
Last ODI 9 August 2011 v Canada
Domestic team information
Years Team
2011/12 Afghan Cheetahs
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 18 8 8 31
Runs scored 300 62 319 537
Batting average 30.00 10.33 35.44 26.85
100s/50s –/2 –– 1/1 –/3
Top score 82 19 102 82
Balls bowled 897 132 1,061 1,466
Wickets 25 4 18 36
Bowling average 25.36 31.50 31.72 30.97
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 4/31 1/9 4/75 4/28
Catches/stumpings 2/– 2/– 10/– 5/–
Source: CricketArchive, 30 September 2011

Samiullah Shenwari (born December 31, 1987) is a right-handed batsman and leg break bowler who plays for Afghanistan.

Shenwari is a part of the rapidly rising Afghan cricket team that in under a year has won the World Cricket League Division Five, Division Four and Division Three, thus promoting them to Division Two and allowing them to partake in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier where they gained ODI status.

He later played for the newly formed Afghan Cheetahs team in the Faysal Bank Twenty-20 Cup 2011-12.

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