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Afghan cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2025–26

international cricket tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ136431766 ↗
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The Afghanistan cricket team toured Zimbabwe in October and November 2025 to play the Zimbabwe cricket team. The tour consisted of one-off Test and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. In October 2025, the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour. All the matches were played at the Harare Sports Club.

Squads

Afghanistan named Sediqullah Atal, Mohammad Ibrahim and Shams Ur Rahman as reserves for the Test match while Faridoon Dawoodzai and Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar were named as reserves for the T20I series.

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This entry incorporates text from “Afghan cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2025–26” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.