Abdullah Mazari commonly referred to as Abdullah, is an Afghan

Afghan

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 cricket

Cricket

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 player. A left-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spin

Left-arm orthodox spin

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 bowler, he has played for the Afghanistan national cricket team since 2001 and has also played for Peshawar

Peshawar cricket team

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, Peshawar Panthers

Peshawar Panthers

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 and Afghan Cheetahs

Afghan Cheetahs

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Biography

Born in Mazar-i-Sharif in 1987 Abdullah first played for Afghanistan in October 2001 in a Grade II Quaid-e-Azam Trophy match against Nowshera. He played three times for them two years later, but it would be a number of years before he returned to the national side, though he did play for Nowshera in the lower tiers of Pakistani domestic cricket a number of times, including one match against Afghanistan in 2007.

He made his first-class

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 debut for Peshawar against Sialkot

Sialkot cricket team

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 in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in February 2009, also playing against Faisalabad

Faisalabad cricket team

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 the following week. He returned to play for Afghanistan the following year, playing in an Intercontinental Cup

ICC Intercontinental Cup

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 match against Scotland in Ayr

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. He made his ODI debut in October 2010, playing twice against Kenya. He then played in the final of the 2009-10 Intercontinental Cup in Dubai

Dubai

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 against Scotland which Afghanistan won by 7 wickets.

In 2011, he played four List A matches for Peshawar Panthers and a Twenty20

Twenty20

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match for the Afghan Cheetahs.