Afghanistan hoping to raise the stakes at the current year's Men's T20 World Cup

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Afghanistan continue to go from strength to strength in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup but have not yet shattered the glass ceiling and secured a semi-final spot.   The destination for this year’s tournament – Australia – may be the biggest hurdle for Jonathan Trott’s squad to overcome, with a bowling attack better suited to spinning pitches and home conditions. The former England star’s side secured an automatic spot in the Super 12 by virtue of their seventh-place finish at the 2021 World Cup – their best finish in the tournament to date.  2022 Prospects : Afghanistan are no strangers to the Super 12 stage and will be looking to bridge the gap to the world’s best.  Having beaten the two lowest-ranked sides in their group at the last World Cup, they will be hopeful of a major scalp in 2022.  If they are to achieve a best ever Super 12 finish, they must beat one of Australia, England or New Zealand, though they are yet to record a single victory against one of the ...

Seven matches in 13 days - why Pakistan and England are playing the longest-T20I series




England hotly anticipated T20 worldwide series in Pakistan begins at Karachi's Public Arena on Tuesday night, the first of seven (indeed, seven) matches across the following 13 days.

It will be the joint-longest reciprocal T20 global series ever - men's or alternately ladies' - and the longest between full-part countries: Malawi facilitated Mozambique for seven men's and seven ladies' T20Is in November 2019, while the main past full-part T20I series of in excess of five games was among India and South Africa's ladies in October 2019, when a 6th T20I was added after downpour cleaned out the second and third.

As per the 2018-23 Future Visits Program, this series was at first due to contain five ODIs in front of the World Cup in India in February-Walk 2023, yet these were changed to T20Is when the Coronavirus pandemic moved the 2020 T20 World Cup back to October-November 2022 and the 50-over World Cup back to October-November 2023.

the way that the men's group had just been because of have two T20Is in Lahore as impact of a four-day visit en route to the T20 World Cup.

Tom Harrison, the ECB's CEO at that point, and Martin Darlow, the appointee seat, visited Lahore in November 2021 to meet with PCB seat Ramiz Raja and talk about the conditions of their withdrawal, which had driven Raja to recommend Pakistan had been "utilized and binned

During that outing, the sheets consented to add a further two T20Is onto the timetable for this series, which will see the two groups pivot their crews to guarantee that central members stay fit and new in front of the T20 World Cup one month from now.

"Seven games will be a test," Jos Buttler, who will just come into conflict to get back from a calf injury during the Lahore leg of the visit, said. "Some of them are consecutive too so we'll unquestionably be hoping to deal with our crew all through that.

"There are a couple of bowlers we want to take care of. We want to uncover them and get them match fit yet we don't have to face unjustifiable challenges."

Matthew Mott, Britain's mentor, said: "At first I thoroughly considered seven games here would be a great deal however I believe it's really going to play into our approval. We can get a few games in for the folks who are returning and we'll get to see various folks under tension in this series."

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