Rahmat Shah

Full Name:	Rahmat Shah Zurmatai
Birth date:	June 6, 1993
Age:	28 years
Hometown:	Paktia
City:	Paktia
Birth Country:	Afghanistan
Batting Style:	Right Hand Batsman
Bowling Style:	Legbreak Googly
Team :	Afghanistan

Rahmat Shah Zurmatai hails from Paktia in Afghanistan. Born on July 6th 1993, Rahmat Shah Zurmatai represents his country in International cricket. Rahmat has been representing other clubs in national level cricket as well. He has played for Mohammedan Sporting Club and also Afghan Cheetas. Rahmat is a right hand batsman. He bowls leg break and also delivers googly.

Career Highlights:

He played his first List A match at Lahore. The match was between Afghanistan and Faisalabad and Rawalpindi on 10th February 2013. Rahmat scored 48 runs off 97 deliveries. Afghanistan lost the match to Faisalabad and Rawalpindi at 8 wickets.
Rahmat’s First Class debut was versus Scotland on March 12th 2013. At Abu Dhabi, Afghanistan won this match by 5 runs with an innings remaining. Rahmat performed his best and added 67 runs to the score.
Rahmat’s ODI career kick started at Sharjah on the 6th of March 2013. In this match against Scotland, Rahmat bowled 3 overs and gave away just 20 runs, while he scored odd 3 runs off 16 deliveries. Afghanistan though won the match by 7 wickets with another 97 balls at hand.

His ODI debut was at the age of 20. He was in the Afghan squad for the 2014 Asia Cup that was played in Bangladesh. Rahmat is a talented cricketer and in his molding phase. He is a young prospect for the growing Afghan cricket squad.

Recent matches

Runs	Team	Opp	Match Date	Score
47	Afghanistan	Bangladesh	2022-02-28	ODI
52	Afghanistan	Bangladesh	2022-02-25	ODI
34	Afghanistan	Bangladesh	2022-02-23	ODI
48	Afghanistan	Netherlands	2022-01-25	ODI
35	Afghanistan	Netherlands	2022-01-23	ODI
70	Afghanistan	Netherlands	2022-01-21	ODI
23, 58	Afghanistan	Zimbabwe	2021-03-10	TEST
6, 0	Afghanistan	Zimbabwe	2021-03-02	TEST
2	Afghanistan	Ireland	2021-01-26	ODI
103	Afghanistan	Ireland	2021-01-24	ODI

Statistictics by year

Batting Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Out	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BP	SR	200s	100s	50s	0s	4s	6s	Ct	St
TEST	6	12	12	0	385	102	32.08	696	55.32	0	1	3	3	53	3	4	0
ODI	41	40	39	1	1402	114	35.95	1986	70.59	0	2	8	1	133	15	9	0

Bowling Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Overs	MO	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Eco	SR	Ext	4wkts	5wkts	10wkts	BBI	BBM
TEST	6	2	37	7	91	5	18.20	2.45	44.4	0	0	1	0	5/82	5/82
ODI	40	12	30	1	200	3	66.67	6.66	60.0	2	0	0	0	1/7	1/7

Awards

Player of the Match	Date
Afghanistan vs Ireland 2nd ODI Match 2021	2021-01-24
Afghanistan vs Ireland Test Match 2019	2019-03-15
Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan 3rd Match Asia Cup 2018	2018-09-17
Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 1st ODI Match 2018	2018-02-09

Last Series Played

Bangladesh vs Afghanistan ODI Series 2022

Afghanistan vs Netherlands ODI Series 2022

Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe Test Series 2021

Afghanistan vs Ireland ODI Series 2021

Shpageeza Cricket League 2020

Team Squad
Fareed Ahmad	Nijat Masood
Sharafuddin Ashraf	Azmatullah Omarzai
Najibullah Zadran	Afsar Zazai
Usman Ghani	Fazalhaq Farooqi
Mohammad Nabi	Rahmanullah Gurbaz