Asghar Afghan got emotional after playing his last match, told why he retired

Asghar Afghan last match: Former Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan played his last international match against Namibia on Sunday. In this match of T20 World Cup-2021, he scored 31 runs in 23 balls. Asghar hit 3 fours and 1 six during this. The team of Namibia, making Asghar Afghan’s last match memorable, gave him a guard of honor.

The Namibian captain wished Asghar Afghan all the best for the last innings before resuming batting. The Afghan fans who came to watch the match also saluted the former captain of their team and bid farewell. Seeing this moment, everyone sitting in the stadium was immersed in emotions. When Asghar returned to the pavilion after being dismissed, the players of his team bid farewell to him by making a gate with the help of the bat as soon as he reached out of the field. This moment was going to make everyone emotional.

Asghar Afghan gets emotional

Asghar Afghan was also seen getting emotional during this. He said that he is retiring from international cricket to give a chance to the youth. The former Afghanistan captain said that most people are asking me why I am retiring. But this is something I cannot explain. We had lost in the last match, which caused disappointment and that’s why I decided to retire.

Let us tell you that Afghanistan had lost in their last match at the hands of Pakistan. The Afghanistan team played excellent cricket till the 18th over of Pakistan’s innings. But in the 19th over, Pakistan batsman Asif Ali hit 4 sixes to give his team a memorable victory.

Asghar has played 75 T20 Internationals. In this, he has 1358 runs in his account at an average of 21.56. At the same time, in 114 ODIs, he has scored 2424 runs at an average of 24.73. Asghar has also played 6 test matches. In this, he has scored 440 runs at an average of 44. He started his Test career against India only.

Asghar led the Afghan team in 59 ODIs and 52 T20Is. He has been the most successful captain in international T20 matches. Under Asghar’s captaincy, Afghanistan won 42 out of 52 matches. Whereas under Dhoni’s captaincy, India won 41 matches and lost 28 matches. In the year 2019, the Afghan Cricket Board removed Asghar from the captaincy, applying the rule of different captains for all three formats of cricket.

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