Asia Cup: Afghanistan stars who can trouble India

One ofICC's major tournaments in Men's International cricket is about to undergo live, shortly.Asia Cup 2025 is the most significant and important cricketing event where it concerns the current quarter

of Men’s International cricket. At the moment, it is the single most important illustrious tournament that matters most in this part of the year where not an awful lot of time is remaining before 2025 draws to an end. With strong and competitive teams such as Bangladesh and Pakistan all set to fight it out among others, teams like Sri Lanka and India would like to test their mettle with each of their opponents, not to forget Afghanistan who definitely hold a strong chance to hold everyone’s attention through sheer competitiveness.

It’s exactly the factor that makes them one of a kind and has actually in all recent years. But where it comes to the Afghan troops, specifically speaking, which players have the might and the talent to rub shoulders with an immensity of skill and caliber? Therefore, which 3 Afghan players could trouble India in what’s to come?

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

The soon to be 24 year old is an explosive batter with almost no fear for any bowler out there and could definitely be counted among the 3 Afghanistan players that could trouble India.

With a ferocious appetite for run scoring and a fearless manner in which he goes about thudding his runs, often blasting the white ball through the gaps, Gurbaz, perhaps among the best Afghan batters at the moment, has already amassed 1721 runs in the T20I format. How many more can he add to his tally in this series, is the big and mighty relevant question?

Gulbadin Naib

An aggressive, experienced and accomplished all round cricketer, there are names that need an introduction and those that don’t quite frankly need any. And Naib finds himself in this elite latter category for Afghanistan. A committed, duty-bound cricketer, the fast bowling all rounder has tremendous experience of representing Afghanistan in major ICC events and the man who turned 34 earlier in June has already scored 945 T20I runs for his country, besides collecting 33 T20I wickets at under 8 an over in the briefest format.

In some ways, the upcoming Asia cup 2025 is to be a milestone event for Naib who’ll look to screech past 1,000 career runs in the most dominant format of the sport at the moment. His ability to hit the deck hard and tank sixes will likely lift the confidence of his Afghan side especially in key contests against India.

Rashid Khan

It pays when you have, arguably speaking, the best spinner in business in the game at present as your captain. Easily the most successful and popular among all Afghan cricketers, Rashid Khan, has today risen as an institution in himself. While there are batters who simply love the art of batting, there are those who could spend hours together on the field to bowl, bowl and bowl the batters out of the game given such insatiable is their appetite for the game. Khan, a true Pathan known for his forbearance and commitment to the game, is exactly that.

He’ll be among the 3 Afghan players that could trouble India this time around and further proof of his massive talent can be accomplished from the fact that Rashid Khan already has 162 T20I wickets. Moreover, he’s no lame pushover with the bat. He can easily hit a few mighty blows and disturb well set economies where it comes to hampering the progress of Afghanistan’s opponent bowlers.

 

 

FAQs

 

Who is Afghanistan’s leading T20I wicket taker in the format?

It is their current captain in the format- Rashid Khan. With 162 scalps to his name.

 

Which are Afghanistan’s most dominant batters in the format?

 

The likes of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran pose a lot of threat to Asia Cup bowlers in this particular format and India ought to watch out.