The
Zimbabwe cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates to play the
Afghanistan cricket team in February 2018 to play two
Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and five
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
(ODI) matches.
Initial reports suggested that it would include Afghanistan's first
Test match since being awarded Test status by the
International Cricket Council in June 2017,
but instead the tour consisted of just
limited overs matches. An official from
Zimbabwe Cricket said that both sides were still in talks to play a Test match, but that would be at some point after the
2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The 2018 ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier was a cricket tournament that took place during March 2018 in Zimbabwe. It formed the final part of the Cricket World Cup qualification process for the 2019 World Cup in England and Wales. The top two te ...
.
Afghanistan won the T20I series 2–0, moving up to eighth place in the
ICC T20I Championship, above
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
Afghanistan won the ODI series 4–1.
Squads
T20I series
1st T20I
2nd T20I
ODI series
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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2018 in Zimbabwean cricket
International cricket competitions in 2017–18
Afghan cricket tours of the United Arab Emirates
Zimbabwean cricket tours of the United Arab Emirates