Khaleqdaad Noori (born 1 January 1984) is an
Afghan cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er. Khaleqdaad is a right-handed
batsman
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who bowls right-arm
fast-medium
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and plays for 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 ...
.
Early career
Khaleqdaad was born in
Baghlan
Baghlan (Dari: بغلان ''Baġlān'') is a city in northern Afghanistan, in the eponymous province, Baghlan Province. It is located three miles east of the Kunduz River, 35 miles south of Khanabad, and about 500 metres above sea level in the ...
, Afghanistan. Khaleqdaad spent much of his early years in
refugee camps with his family, fleeing from the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
that followed the Soviet withdrawal. Khaleqdaad, like many of his teammates learnt the game in neighbouring
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
.
Khaleqdaad made his representative debut for Afghanistan against
Nowshehra on 15 October 2001 in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy (Grade II). This game occurred a week into the
NATO invasion of Afghanistan
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.
Khaleqdaad's international debut for Afghanistan came against
Oman
Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...
in the
2004 ACC Trophy. In 2006 he toured England, playing in a single match against the
Essex Second XI. Later in 2006, he represented the team in the
2006 ACC Trophy, where he played in 2 matches against
Iran
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and
Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
.
2009–present
Khaleqdaad was a member of Afghanistan's
2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier
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The tournament is the renamed version ...
s squad. He made his
List-A
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debut during the tournament against
Kenya
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and later in the tournament he made his
One Day International debut against
Scotland
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, where he took 2/25. To date this is Khaleqdaad's only ODI.
Later, in November 2009, he made his unofficial
Twenty20
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debut for Afghanistan against
China in the
2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup
The 2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup was played between 22 and 30 November 2009 in the United Arab Emirates.
The twelve competing teams were: Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UAE ...
. He later played in the final of the tournament, where Afghanistan defeated the
United Arab Emirates
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by 84 runs.
Prior to
Afghanistan's tour of Kenya in October 2010, Khaleqdaad had represented Afghanistan in 6 One Day International's. His debut in
first-class cricket
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came during Afghanistan's tour of Kenya, when Afghanistan played Kenya in the
2009-10 ICC Intercontinental Cup. During the match he took his first 2 first-class wickets, those of
Nehemiah Odhiambo and
David Obuya
David Oluoch Obuya (born 14 August 1979) is a former Kenyan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. Obuya first played cricket at the Under-19s World Cup of 1998, where he starred as the opening batsman.
International care ...
.
Kenya v Afghanistan, 2009–10 Intercontinental Cup
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Family
Khaleqdaad's brother, Allah Dad Noori was the first captain of the Afghanistan national cricket team.
References
External links
Khaleqdaad Noori
on Cricinfo
Khaleqdaad Noori
on CricketArchive
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1984 births
Living people
Pashtun people
Afghan cricketers
Afghanistan One Day International cricketers
Sportspeople from Baghlan