Afghanistan replace Australia in South Africa tri-series

[Ankit_sharma03]

Afghanistan 'A' will replace Australia 'A' in the triangular 'A' series scheduled to begin in South Africa later this month, which would also involve the 'A' team from India apart from the hosts.

The 'A' teams of South Africa, Australia and India were scheduled to play a triangular series from July 26, but Australia pulled out of the tournament owing to the financial dispute between Cricket Australia (CA) and the players.

Post this fallout, there were reports that India and South Africa would play a five-match bilateral series, but now with the Afghanistan Cricket Board having accepted Cricket South Africa's (CSA) invitation, the tri-series would be organized as initially scheduled.

The series opener would be between India and Afghanistan in Pretoria on July 26. This would also be Afghanistan first tour to South Africa at any level.

"We are delighted that Afghanistan have accepted our invitation and look forward to welcoming them to our country for the very first time," CSA chief executive Haroon Logart said.

"Afghanistan were deservedly granted Full Member status at the ICC annual conference last month after showing impressive growth in recent years."

"They are a passionate cricket nation and I expect the Afghanistan A team to compete strongly against our A team and India A in the upcoming tri-series," Logart added.

Logart's counterpart, the Afghanistan Cricket Board CEO Shafiqullah Stanikzai expressed his excitement on the occasion.

"We are very pleased to accept Cricket South Africa’s invitation to participate in the upcoming triangular series. This will be our first-ever visit to South Africa and I am certain that this will give Afghanistan ’A’ team very good exposure to competitive cricket," Stanikzai said.

All teams would play each other twice and the top two teams would play the final in Pretoria on August 8. The tri-series would be followed by two four-day games between India 'A' and South Africa 'A' scheduled for August 12 in Benoni and August 19 in Potchefstroom.

 

Link -https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/afghanistan-replace-australia-south-africa-tri-series-india-a

[Singh bling]

Is there anythinh such as Afghanistan A team?

 

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[express bowling]

38 minutes ago, Singh bling said:

Is there anythinh such as Afghanistan A team?

 

 

 

It will probably be their main team playing as their A-team.

 

Atleast, I hope that is the case for the sake of proper competition.