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2024 Shpageeza Cricket League

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2024 Shpageeza Cricket League
Dates12 August – 25 August 2024
Administrator(s)Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB)
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Double round-robin and final
Host(s)Afghanistan Afghanistan
Participants5
Matches21
2022
2025 →

The 2024 Shpageeza Cricket League (also known as for sponsorship reasons as 2024 X-Bull Energy Shpageeza Cricket League) is the 9th edition of the Shpageeza Cricket League,[1] a professional Twenty20 cricket (T20) league established by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in 2013, and the fifth edition to have official T20 status. It was originally scheduled to run from 10 to 25 September 2024, with the number of teams decreasing from eight to five.[1] However, no tournament took place in 2023, with the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announcing that the tournament would be played in August 2024. The Speenghar Tigers are the defending champions.

Squads

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Squads were announced on 4 August 2024.[2]

Amo Sharks Band-e-Amir Dragons Boost Defenders Mis Ainak Knights Speenghar Tigers

Points table

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Pos Team Pld W L NR Pts NRR Qualification
1 Band-e-Amir Dragons 2 2 0 0 4 0.633 Advanced to final
2 Boost Defenders 1 1 0 0 2 0.493
3 Mis Ainak Knights 1 1 0 0 2 0.050
4 Amo Sharks 2 0 2 0 0 −0.177
5 Speen Ghar Tigers 2 0 2 0 0 −0.718
Updated to match(es) played on 13 August 2024. Source: ESPNcricinfo[3]

Fixtures

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12 August 2024
09:00
Scorecard
Band-e-Amir Dragons
167/6 (20 overs)
v
Speen Ghar Tigers
148/9 (20 overs)
Sediqullah Atal 69 (46)
Zahir Khan 3/31 (4 overs)
Bahir Shah 38 (25)
Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar 3/11 (4 overs)
Band-e-Amir Dragons won by 19 runs
Kabul International Cricket Stadium, Kabul
Umpires: Ahmad Shah Pakteen and Muhammad Sabir
Player of the match: Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar (Band-e-Amir Dragons)
  • Speen Ghar Tigers won the toss and elected to field.

12 August 2024
14:00
Scorecard
Amo Sharks
151/7 (20 overs)
v
Mis Ainak Knights
152/2 (20 overs)
Shahidullah 48* (44)
Zia-ur-Rehman 2/21 (4 overs)
Ibrahim Zadran 80 (62)
Mohammadullah 1/18 (3 overs)
Mis Ainak Knights won by 8 wickets
Kabul International Cricket Stadium, Kabul
Umpires: Farooq Khan and Izatullah Safi
Player of the match: Ibrahim Zadran (Mis Ainak Knights)
  • Amo Sharks won the toss an elected to bat.
  • Naveed Zadran (Mis Ainak Knights) made his T20 debut.

13 August 2024
09:00
Scorecard
Speen Ghar Tigers
166/7 (20 overs)
v
Boost Defenders
170/3 (19.2 overs)
Samiullah Shinwari 43 (25)
Noor Ahmad 4/16 (4 overs)
Mohammad Akram 62 (37)
Faridoon Dawoodzai 1/28 (4 overs)
Boost Defenders won by 7 wickets
Kabul International Cricket Stadium, Kabul
Umpires: Ajmal Shamolzi and Bismillah Jan Shinwari
Player of the match: Noor Ahmad (Boost Defenders)
  • Boost Defenders won the toss and elected to field.
  • Bashir Ahmad (Boost Defenders) made his T20 debut.

13 August 2024
14:00
Scorecard
Amo Sharks
147/7 (20 overs)
v
Band-e-Amir Dragons
148/5 (19.2 overs)
Hashmatullah Shahidi 57* (48)
Qais Ahmad 2/24 (4 overs)
Band-e-Amir Dragons won by 5 wickets
Kabul International Cricket Stadium, Kabul
Umpires: Ahmed Shah Durrani and Mahmood Kharoti
Player of the match: Hashmatullah Shahidi (Band-e-Amir Dragons)
  • Amo Sharks won the toss and elected to bat.
















Final

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August 2024
14:00
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD

References

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  1. ^ a b "The 9th Edition of the Shpageeza Cricket League Begins August 12". Afghanistan Cricket Board. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Squads Named for the X-Bull Energy Shpageeza Cricket League 2024, Presented by Etisalat". cricket.af. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Shpageeza CL 2024 - Points Table". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
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