Champions Trophy: Bhai broke the bat and loves cricket, had a century in a debut match, now this player is a shining star of Afghanistan cricket?

Jaipur: After the ODI World Cup, the 9th edition of cricket’s most prestigious tournament Champions Trophy has begun. The opening match is being played between host Pakistan and New Zealand at the National Stadium in Karachi. Afghanistan’s team is participating in the Champions Trophy tournament for the first time. In the last few years, Afghanistan has made its presence felt in world cricket by playing excellent cricket. In the Cricket World Cup played in the year 2023, Afghanistan won four of the 9 matches. Not only this, the Afghanistan team showed fantastic games globally and forced the fans to swing by defeating the teams like Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and England.

The biggest role in this performance of Afghanistan was played by his wicketkeeper batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz. Gurbaz is the first cricketer in Afghanistan to have scored centuries in ODI debut matches. In the World Cup held in 2023, he scored 280 runs in 9 matches. During this time, he also hit 31 fours and 9 sixes. However, his story of reaching the international level is very interesting.

Father wanted I become a doctor or engineer

23 -year -old, right -handed wicketkeeper batsman Gurbaz told in an interview to ESPNCRICINFO that “he was so crazy behind playing cricket that he also did a secret job to buy a cricket bat, after which he got a salary when he got a salary.” Buy bat However, his elder brother did not like to play his cricket and his brother immediately broke the bat. ”Gurbaz says that he was very sad then. Gurbaz says that “his childhood was spent in Khost, the southern-eastern province of Afghanistan.” He used to play most of the football before cricket. But then TV But when he started watching cricket, from there he created thinking of making cricket a career. None of both his father and brother wanted Gurbaz to carry forward his life in cricket. His father wanted to see him becoming a doctor or engineer. ”

Got so much in cricket, forget to bring tea

Gurbaz says that “once some relatives came to his house.” His brother sent him to get tea. However, he forgot to bring tea and during this time he became busy playing cricket, when his brother came to know about it, his brother broke his bat. “He was fine in studies till the sixth grade but after that He fell in love with cricket. Gurbaz says that he learned to play cricket with tape ball on cement pitches in the village. Gurbaz says that our new house was being built in the village. In which many laborers were needed. During this time, I also had to buy cricket bat, so I asked for the job of a laborer from the contractor who built the house and asked him not to tell anyone about it at home. This job was a complete secret job. However, when his brother came to know about this, he broke and threw many things related to cricket including his bat and globs.

8 centuries and 6 fifties have hit 46 ODIs

Gurbaz has so far played only 1 Test match for Afghanistan. But his performance in ODI and T20 has been very proud. Gurbaz has so far scored 1769 runs in 46 ODIs with an average of 39.31. During this time, 8 centuries and 6 half -centuries have come out of his bat. They also stay ahead in hitting sixes. In ODIs, he has hit 67 sixes so far, while in T20, this figure has reached 95. At the same time, he has also hit 1 century and 10 fifties in 66 T20 International matches.

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