Mujeeb Ur Rahman has been let well enough alone for Afghanistan’s Test squad for their approaching task against Ireland in Dehradun. The 17-year-old spinner played the nation’s debut Test coordinate against India last June and surrendered 75 keeps running for a lone wicket in the 15 overs he bowled.
The selectors have added three new players to the 14-man squad who were not with the squad in Bengaluru – left-arm quick bowler Waqar Salamkheil, batsman Ikram Ali Khil and all-rounder Sharafuddin Ashraf. Ali Khil is additionally part of the ODI squad.
Salamkheil and Ali Khil are yet to play a worldwide amusement while Sharafuddin has been included with the national set-up, having spoken to Afghanistan in 14 ODIs and six T20Is.
Inquisitively, flashy opening batsman Mohammad Shahzad has been let alone for the squad for the T20Is, in spite of the fact that he includes in the Test and the ODIs. With regards to their pattern to blood new spinners, Afghanistan have called up 17-year-old left-arm wrist spinner Zahir Khan for the ODIs and the T20Is while left-arm conventional spinner Zia-Ur-Rehman makes it to the T20I squad.
Afghanistan and Ireland will play three T20Is, five ODIs and the irregular Test beginning February 21. The Test match will be the second amusement for the two groups having made their long-design makes a big appearance in 2018, against India and Pakistan separately.
Squads
T20I: Asghar Afghan (c), Usman Ghani, Najeeb Tarakai, Hazratullah Zazai, Samiullah Shinwari, Mohammad Nabi, Shafiqullah Shafaq, Rashid Khan, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Janat, Farid Malik, Sayed Shirzad, Zia-Ur-Rehman, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Zahir Khan, Sharafuddin Ashraf
ODI: Asghar Afghan (C), Mohammad Shahzad, Noor Ali Zadran, Javed Ahmadi, Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Samiullah Shinwari, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Ikram Ali Khil, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Rashid Khan, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Aftab Alam, Dawlat, Zahir Khan, Farid Malik, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Shapoor Zadran, Sayed Shirzad
Test: Asghar Afghan (C), Mohammad Shahzad, Ihsan Janat, Javed Ahmadi, Rahmat Shah, Nasir Jamal, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Ikram Ali Khil, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Wafadar Momand, Yamin Ahmadzai, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Waqar Salamkheil