Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar: R Ashwin fan, who swears by the carrom ball, claims six wickets in Afghanistan win over Bangladesh

Tanzid Hasan, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Mushfiqur Rahim, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed and Shoriful Islam each fell unfortunate to Ghazanfar’s fiery spell.

𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐓𝐌 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐌𝐆! 🙌

AM Ghazanfar delivered a phenomenal bowling show for #AfghanAtalan and claimed his career-best figures of 6/26 to gain the Player of the Match award. 🤩

Outstanding bowling, Ghaz! 👏#GloriousNationVictoriousTeam pic.twitter.com/udGRCI1vK7

— Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) November 6, 2024

Ghazanfar was the subordinate of the lucifer successful the last against Sri Lanka A successful the aforementioned Emerging teams tourney erstwhile helium had snapped up 2 wickets to assistance his squad to triumph their maiden trophy.

The 18-year-old Ghazanfar was a subordinate of the Kolkata Knight Riders squad which went connected to triumph the 2024 Indian Premier League, drafted successful for the injured Mujeeb Ur Rahman but did not play a azygous crippled for the franchise.

The subordinate had made his planetary debut for Afghanistan against Ireland erstwhile helium was conscionable 16 twelvemonth aged and was besides portion of the U-19 T20 World Cup earlier successful the twelvemonth wherever his champion show was erstwhile helium took 3 wickets against New Zealand.

𝐓.𝐈.𝐌.𝐁.𝐄.𝐑!!! ⚡

AMG with an aboriginal blow! 👏#AfghanAtalan | #AFGvBAN | #GloriousNationVictoriousTeam pic.twitter.com/GQoNwIawZk

— Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) November 6, 2024

In a chat with ICC’s societal media grip during the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup, Ghazanfar had revealed that his favourite transportation was the carrom ball.

“My favourite cricketer is Ravichandran Anhwin. He’s a world-class crickter and a legend. He bowls truthful galore variations of off-spin bowling. I’m intimately monitoring the world’s best,” Ghazanfar told ICC.

He besides said that helium initially started retired arsenic a gait bowler and a batter successful portion shot cricket earlier helium joined an academy.

“I practised accelerated bowling for a period astatine the academy. But past the manager determination started to archer maine to vessel spin. When I started bowling spin, the manager saw maine and realised I was really doing well. He truly loved immoderate of my variations similar carrom ball, google, disconnected rotation and backmost spin. He told maine I could go an outstanding bowler 1 day. And truthful I started to enactment connected that dream,” helium told ICC.