Asadullah Khan is an Afghan former
cricket
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er. Khan is a right-handed
batsman
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and right arm medium-pace bowler. He has previously represented the
Afghanistan national cricket team
The Afghanistan men's national team ( ps, د افغانستان کرکټ ملي لوبډله, fa, تیم ملی کریکت افغانستان) represents Afghanistan in international cricket. Cricket has been played in Afgha ...
.
Playing career
His debut for the national team came in 2003 when Afghanistan played
Chitral District
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in the 2003/04 Inter-District Senior Tournament. He later represented Afghanistan in the
2004 ACC Trophy, where he represented Afghanistan in 6 matches, the last of which came against
Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
.
Three years passed before Khan represented Afghanistan again. In 2007, he represented the team in 2007/08 Inter-District Senior Tournament, playing 3 matches against
Lower Dir District
Lower Dir District ( ps, لر / کوز دير ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Timergara city is the district headquarter and largest city. The district was formed in 1996, when Dir District was ...
,
Charsadda District and
Swat District
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. The following year he was a member of Afghanistan's
2009 ICC World Cricket League Division Three
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The t ...
squad. During that tournament he played a single match for Afghanistan against
Papua New Guinea
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in
Buenos Aires
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,
Argentina
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.
Post-playing career
Khan no longer represents the senior team, but is a senior youth coach for the Afghan Youth Cricket Association. He is the current coach of the newly formed
Tajikistan national cricket team
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. He is also going to be the chief guest of Rajagiri Public School,Doha,Qatar for the school's annual athletic meet.
In 2021, Khan was appointed head coach of the
Qatar national cricket team
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.
References
1987 births
Living people
Afghan cricketers
Afghan cricket coaches
Afghan expatriates in Tajikistan
Afghan expatriates in Qatar
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