Ibrahim Zadran

Afghanistan|Opening Batter
Ibrahim Zadran
INTL CAREER: 2019 - 2025
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Full Name

Ibrahim Zadran

Born

December 12, 2001, Khost

Age

23y 211d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

Playing Role

Opening Batter

RELATIONS

Top-order batter Ibrahim Zadran is among Afghanistan's most consistent performers, and young enough to have made his Test debut (in the team's third ever match) before he played a white-ball international. He made 87 in that match in Chattogram, a big, historic win over Bangladesh.

Zadran, a veteran of two Under-19 World Cups in which he was his side's top run-scorer, got off to a storming start in senior international cricket: he made three hundreds in five ODIs when he came back to the format following a two-year hiatus after his first match, in 2019. The last of those centuries was 162 against Sri Lanka in Pallekele, which won him the Player-of-the-Series award.

The next ODI he played, also against Sri Lanka, around seven months later, fetched him 98. A few weeks on from that, back in Chattogram, he harvested an even 100 against Bangladesh to set up a 2-1 ODI series win.

In February 2024, Zadran's 114 in the second innings of the one-off Test in Colombo gave Sri Lanka a bit of a scare, taking Afghanistan to 214 to 2 before they lost their last eight wickets for 80-odd runs. Similarly, against Australia in the 2023 World Cup, his 129 laid the foundation for a chunky total, only to be bested by a freak double-hundred by an injured Glenn Maxwell. Earlier in the tournament Zadran had top-scored with 87 in a comfortable win against Pakistan.

Nine months on from that defeat in Mumbai, Afghanistan had their revenge, beating Australia in the T20 World Cup in St Vincent, and Zadran was a key architect with a fifty in an opening partnership of 118 with Rahmanullah Gurbaz. By that point he was in the middle of a purple patch in 2024, having made fifties against India, Sri Lanka, Ireland and Uganda, and 44 in a win over New Zealand in the T20 World Cup.

Unlike some of his team-mates, Zadran doesn't quite have the T20 strike rate to get the top leagues interested, but his average - in the early 30s - is up there with the best.

Ibrahim Zadran Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests714054111438.64115246.9614644110
ODIs36363165617750.18199383.096716427120
T20Is44446110572*29.071030107.28089724170
FC21373134111439.44239855.923815025260
List A63628261517748.42323380.8891025149260
T20s105100152646101*31.122259117.1311924276540

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests71121311/131/1313.006.5012.0000
ODIs36------------
T20Is44------------
FC2171507431/131/1324.662.9650.0000
List A631030627482/122/1234.255.3738.2000
T20s1051418326663/423/4244.338.7230.5000

Ibrahim Zadran T20 Stats

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ILT20GG440452411.255090.00004140
BPL2 teams121202495220.75221112.660123850
LPLDAS220313015.5021147.61006010
APLNL110000.0050.00000000

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ILT20GG4------------
BPL2 teams12------------
LPLDAS2------------
APLNL1112320 - --16.00-000
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Photos of Ibrahim Zadran

Ibrahim Zadran played some pleasing shots up top
Azmatullah Omarzai is pumped up after getting Phil Salt early
Ibrahim Zadran got a rousing reception from the Lahore crowd after his 146-ball 177 came to an end
Ibrahim Zadran walks back after making a record-breaking 177
Ibrahim Zadran and Mohammad Nabi gave Afghanistan flight in death overs
Ibrahim Zadran reached his ton in 106 balls