Afghanistan to attain Test debut against India

Afghanistan will play their inaugural Test match against India in 2018. Rahul Johri, the BCCI chief govt officer, confirmed that India would host Afghanistan, and that the two boards would determine the venue and the dates quickly.

Since being inducted as an ICC Fleshy Member in June, alongside Eire, Afghanistan were shopping for an opponent to play their maiden Test match against.

Eire comprise already confirmed that they’ll play their first Test against Pakistan in Would possibly per chance perhaps well also 2018.

On the starting set, Zimbabwe were scheduled to play Afghanistan in the UAE earlier than travelling to Bangladesh early subsequent year. Nonetheless, Zimbabwe Cricket instructed the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) that it wanted to point of curiosity on the World Cup Qualfiers in March and therefore no longer like greater its players’ workload.

This October the ACB, led by its chairman Atif Mashal and CEO Shafiqullah Stanikzai, met Johri in Mumbai, inquiring for India to take phrase of playing against Afghanistan. « The ACB requested us to play their first Test match, » Johri said, after attending the BCCI’s special standard meeting in Delhi on Monday. « The BCCI has agreed. »

It’s known that both boards will meet in per week’s time in Dubai to finalise the agenda. With India travelling foreign for a spread of of 2018, the Afghanistan Test is at possibility of be scheduled earlier than India’s day out to Australia in leisurely 2018.

For the moment, the ACB is enraged. « This could be a historic Test match, » Stanikzai said. « We would rep to thank the BCCI for granting this likelihood to us and accepting our ask. »