Gulbadin Naib

Full Name:	Gulbadin Naib
Birth date:	March 16, 1991
Age:	31 years
Birth Country:	Afghanistan
Batting Style:	Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style:	Right Arm Medium Fast Bowler
Team :	Afghanistan

Gulbadin Naib is a professional cricketer of the Afghanistan national side. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls right-arm medium pace. This 23-years old Afghan cricketer was born on March 16, 1991 at the Logar Province, Afghanistan. He is also known as Gulbudeen Naib and Gulbodin Naib. He had to fight resistances from all sides during his early life. His father was jobless and hence his childhood was not a bed of roses.

In 2008, Naib played his debut match as a part of the Afghanistan national side. The match was a part of the World Cricket League Division Five and was against Japan. He played for 5 matches at a stretch. He soon became a part of the documentary film "Out of the Ashes" which traced the preparations and lives of the cricketers during the World Cricket League. He soon lost his place in the Afghanistan team as he was filming for the documentary. Later in 2010, the Afghan pacer was selected for the national side to play at the Asian Games. His national side bagged the silver medal at the tournament.

In 2011, Naib got the chance to make his List A debut for the national side. He was selected for the Afghan squad which went to Pakistan for playing 3 unofficial ODIs against the home team. It was for the first time that any team visited Pakistan, post the attack on Sri Lankan team in 2009. Later that year, he made the debut in ODI format of the game against Canada at the Intercontinental Cup One Day. This was followed by Naib’s T20 debut against Trinidad and Tobago at the Cricket Canada Summer Festival. He is one of the future stars of Afghanistan.

Recent matches

Runs	Team	Opp	Match Date	Score
-	Afghanistan	Bangladesh	2022-02-28	ODI
17	Afghanistan	Bangladesh	2022-02-23	ODI
2	Afghanistan	Netherlands	2022-01-23	ODI
16	Afghanistan	Netherlands	2022-01-21	ODI
11	Delhi Bulls	Bangla Tigers	2021-11-28	DT20
-	Delhi Bulls	The Chennai Braves	2021-11-21	DT20
15	Afghanistan	New Zealand	2021-11-07	IT20
18	Afghanistan	India	2021-11-03	IT20
1	Afghanistan	Namibia	2021-10-31	IT20
35	Afghanistan	Pakistan	2021-10-29	IT20

Statistictics by year

Batting Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Out	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BP	SR	200s	100s	50s	0s	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODI	43	37	32	5	687	82	21.47	897	76.59	0	0	2	4	56	17	18	0
IT20	53	41	28	13	543	56	19.39	454	119.60	0	0	1	4	44	22	22	0

Bowling Statistics

	Mat	Inns	Overs	MO	Runs	Wkts	Ave	Eco	SR	Ext	4wkts	5wkts	10wkts	BBI	BBM
ODI	42	40	252.5	5	1459	30	48.63	6.28	50.5	47	0	0	0	3/68	3/68
IT20	53	34	77.1	1	642	16	40.13	8.43	28.9	21	0	0	0	2/16	2/16

Awards

Player of the Match	Date
Boost Defenders vs Mis Ainak Knights 11th Match Shpageeza Cricket League T20 2020	2020-09-11
Afghanistan vs Ireland 1st ODI Match 2019	2019-02-28
Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 1st T20 Match 2016	2016-01-08
Afghanistan vs Zimbabwe 5th ODI Match 2016	2016-01-06
Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan 2nd T20 Match 2015	2015-10-28

Last Series Played

Bangladesh vs Afghanistan ODI Series 2022

Afghanistan vs Netherlands ODI Series 2022

T10 League November 2021 Schedule

T20 World Cup 2021 Schedule

Afghanistan vs Ireland ODI Series 2021

Team Squad
Afsar Zazai	Hazratullah Zazai
Mujeeb Ur Rahman	Sharafuddin Ashraf
Usman Ghani	Qais Ahmad
Nijat Masood	Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Mohammad Nabi	Azmatullah Omarzai