ACB Announces Schedule For 2022-23 Season, Afghanistan To Tour India In March

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Monday announced their Future Tour Programme (FTP) for the 2022-23 season. Afghanistan cricket team will be playing a total of 37 ODIs, 12 T20Is & 3 Tests during the 2022-23 period.

Afghanistan will be playing 7 ODI series in the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League: ACB

“Out of the 52 matches included in Afghanistan’s schedule from 2022 to 2023, there will be 37 ODIs, 12 T20Is and 3 tests.

“Considering the fact that Afghanistan will be playing 7 ODI series in the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, as well as will participate in four major limited-overs events such as Asia Cup 2022 (T20 format), ICC T20 World Cup 2022, the Asia Cup 2023 (ODI format) & the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023,” the ACB said in an official release.

Afghanistan will begin 2022 with a three-match ODI series against the Netherlands at home followed by three ODIs and five T20 Internationals in Zimbabwe.

In March, the Afghanistan team will travel to India to play three One Day International matches before they host Australia for three T20 International fixtures in the May-June window. They will also play a solitary Test match in Ireland along with five ODI matches.

Afghanistan will also participate in the 2022 Asia Cup (T20 format) in Sri Lanka followed by the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia.

Our girls will be playing cricket on a normal basis: ACB chairman Mirwais Ashraf

Afghanistan were supposed to play a single Test match at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart against Australia. However, Cricket Australia postpone the match after the Afghanistan women’s team was barred from playing cricket under the new rule of the Taliban.

On November 25, ACB chairman Mirwais Ashraf announced that the Afghanistan women team will continue to play cricket. The decision came after ICC had appointed a workgroup to monitor the situation of Afghanistan cricket.

“Women’s cricket is one of the major requirements of the ICC. Therefore, it is committed to obtaining it,” Ashraf said.

“Our girls will be playing cricket on a normal basis, and we are looking to provide for their basic needs and all the facilities they need. Every employee must stay committed to the ACB and must strive hard to do well in their own areas,” he added.

Afghanistan finished fourth on the points table of Group 2 in the T20 World Cup with wins against Scotland and Namibia.

They lost their fixtures to India, Pakistan and New Zealand that dented their hopes to qualify for the semi-final round.

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