Afghan cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2025–26
International cricket tour
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The Afghanistan cricket team toured Zimbabwe in October and November 2025 to play the Zimbabwe cricket team.[1] The tour consisted of one-off Test and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[2] In October 2025, the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour.[3] All the matches were played at the Harare Sports Club.[4]
Dates
20 October – 2 November 2025
Captains
Craig Ervine (Test)
Sikandar Raza (T20Is)
Sikandar Raza (T20Is)
Result
Zimbabwe won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs
Ben Curran (121)
| Afghan cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2025–26 | |||
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| Zimbabwe | Afghanistan | ||
| Dates | 20 October – 2 November 2025 | ||
| Captains |
Craig Ervine (Test) Sikandar Raza (T20Is) |
Hashmatullah Shahidi (Test) Rashid Khan[a] (T20Is) | |
| Test series | |||
| Result | Zimbabwe won the 1-match series 1–0 | ||
| Most runs | Ben Curran (121) | Ibrahim Zadran (61) | |
| Most wickets | Blessing Muzarabani (6) | Ziaur Rahman (7) | |
| Twenty20 International series | |||
| Results | Afghanistan won the 3-match series 3–0 | ||
| Most runs | Sikandar Raza (89) | Ibrahim Zadran (169) | |
| Most wickets | Brad Evans (5) |
Abdullah Ahmadzai (7) Mujeeb Ur Rahman (7) | |
| Player of the series | Ibrahim Zadran (Afg) | ||
Squads
Afghanistan named Sediqullah Atal, Mohammad Ibrahim and Shams Ur Rahman as reserves for the Test match while Faridoon Dawoodzai and Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar were named as reserves for the T20I series.[9]
Only Test
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- Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
- Khalil Gurbaz, Sharafuddin Ashraf and Ziaur Rahman (Afg) all made their Test debuts.
- Brad Evans (Zim) took his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests.[10][11]
- Ben Curran (Zim) scored his maiden century in Tests.[12][13]
- Ziaur Rahman (Afg) took his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests.[14][15]
- Richard Ngarava (Zim) took his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests.[16][17]
- This was Zimbabwe's first Test win at home after 12 years.[18]
T20I series
1st T20I
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- Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
2nd T20I
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- Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.
3rd T20I
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- Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
Notes
- Ibrahim Zadran captained Afghanistan in the 3rd T20I.