Shapoor Zadran

Shapoor Zadran
Personal information
Born 7 March 1985 (1985-03-07) (age 27)
Logar Province, Afghanistan
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Left-arm fast-medium
International information
National side Afghanistan
ODI debut (cap 15) 19 April 2009 v Scotland
Last ODI 18 February 2010 v Canada
T20I debut (cap 11) 1 February 2010 v Ireland
Last T20I 13 February 2010 v Ireland
Domestic team information
Years Team
2007 Badureliya Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 8 6 4 10
Runs scored 1 0 7 23
Batting average 0.33 0.00 1.40 3.83
100s/50s –/– –/– –/– –/–
Top score 1 0 4 10
Balls bowled 401 102 666 481
Wickets 13 3 12 13
Bowling average 24.46 39.33 35.75 31.53
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 4/24 1/8 4/28 4/24
Catches/stumpings –/– 1/– 1/– –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 15 April 2010

Shapoor Zadran (born March 7, 1985) is an Afghan cricketer. Zadran is a left-handed batsman who bowls left-arm fast-medium. Zadran currently plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team.

Zadran made his debut for Afghanistan against Chitral in the 2003/4 Inter-District Senior Tournament. His international debut for the side came against Oman in the 2004 ACC Trophy. Zadran also represented Afghanistan in the 2006 ACC Trophy, playing a single against Bahrain, in the final which Afghanistan lost by 3 wickets.

In 2007, he made his List-A debut for Badureliya Cricket Club in against Chilaw Marians Cricket Club in Sri Lanka, playing a single match for the club in the 2007/8 Premier Limited Overs Tournament.[1]

In 2007 he made his Twenty20 debut for Afghanistan in the 2007 ACC Twenty20 Cup against Qatar, playing 3 matches in the tournament, including in the final against Oman which ended in a tie.

Zadran was part of the rapidly-rising Afghan team that from 2008 to 2009 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.

In 2009, Zadran made his first-class debut for Afghanistan in the Intercontinental Cup against a Zimbabwe XI in which Afghanistan drew the match.[2] To date he has played 4 first-class matches for Afghanistan.

Zadran made his One Day International debut against the Netherlands during Afghanistan's tour of the Netherlands in 2009, where he took 4/24 from 10 overs. Despite this, Afghanistan lost the match by 8 runs.[3]

Later, in November 2009 he was a member of Afghanistan's 2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup winning squad. In 2010 made his full Twenty20 International debut against Ireland in the 2010 Quadrangular Twenty20 Series in Sri Lanka. Later on in February 2010, Zadran was a key member of Afghanistan's victorious 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier winning squad and was later named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.[4]

In April 2010, Zadran was a key member of Afghanistan's 2010 ACC Trophy Elite winning squad which defeated Nepal in the final, with Zadran taking a single wicket for the cost of just 11 runs from 7 overs.[5]

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