Dawlat Zadran is an Afghan cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Zadran is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...

. He was born in Khost Province

Khost Province

Khost is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Khost province used to be part of Paktia province in the past...

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Zadran made his List A debut for Afghanistan when they became the first side to tour Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 since the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team

2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team

The Sri Lankan cricket team attack occurred on March 3, 2009, when a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against the...

, with Afghanistan playing 3 unofficial One Day Internationals against Pakistan A

Pakistan A cricket team

The Pakistan A cricket team is a national cricket team representing Pakistan. It is the 'second-tier' of international Pakistan cricket, below the full Pakistan national cricket team. Matches played by Pakistan A are not considered to be Test matches or One Day Internationals, instead receiving...

. Zadran took 6 wickets in the series, which came at an average

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

 of 28.83, with best figures of 3/45. He later made his first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 debut for Afghanistan against Canada in the 2011-13 ICC Intercontinental Cup and followed this up by making his One Day International (ODI) debut against the same opposition in the 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup One-Day

2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup One-Day

The 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup One-Day is the first edition of a new limited-overs version of the ICC Intercontinental Cup. It will run from June 2011 until October 2013, in parallel with the first-class 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup, and is contested by the same eight associate and...

. He played both of Afghanistan's ODI's against Canada, taking 4 wickets in the series.

External links

• Dawlat Zadran at ESPNcricinfo
• Dawlat Zadran at CricketArchive
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