Usman Ghani ( ps, ; born 20 November 1996) is an Afghanistan international cricketer He is a right-handed opening batsman.

Career

He made his debut in 2014 Asian Cricket Council Premier League against

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on May 1, 2014 in which he took a wicket gave 21 runs then while batting he scored 70 runs off 68 with 6 fours and 4 sixes. Then next ODI he scored 55 runs against

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. He was leading run scorer in the tournament with 228 runs at an average of 45.60. On Zimbabwe Tour, he scored 79 runs with six fours and three sixes and help

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edge past Zimbabwe A by 16 runs in tour match at

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. In the second ODI, Ghani was one man show up

's innings against

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. Ghani scored 118 off 143 deliveries which is the jointly equal for the highest score by an Afghanistan batsman and the highest individual score was

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's 23 but Sikandar Raza Butt's 141 helped

crush

by eight wickets and took 2–0 lead in the four-match series. He made his

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debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe on 26 October 2015. He made his first-class debut for Band-e-Amir Region in the 2017–18 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament on 19 November 2017. In July 2018, he was the leading run-scorer for Band-e-Amir Region in the

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, with 218 runs in five matches. In September 2018, he was named in Balkh's squad in the

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tournament. and his first-wicket partnership with Hazaratullah Zazai was also a record for any wicket in a T20I, with 236 runs scored. In September 2020, he was the leading run-scorer in the

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, with 355 runs in seven matches. In September 2021, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghani, Usman 1996 births Living people Afghan cricketers Pashtun people Afghanistan One Day International cricketers Afghanistan Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers at the 2015 Cricket World Cup Spin Ghar Tigers cricketers Band-e-Amir Dragons cricketers Balkh Legends cricketers