Afghanistan Cricket Board has retained Mirwais Ashraf as their chairman for the next three years. As per the report, a top official of ACB confirmed the development to sports media on Friday on a request not to be named.
Mirwais Ashraf was appointed as the chairman of the ACB in 2021 and was expected to end his tenure in August 2023.
“Due to his performance for the last three years, the Taliban government extended Mirwais Ashraf’s new term as the chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board for three more years,” said the ACB official.
“Look stability is key to our success and we try to value it. During the last three years we had one chairman, one CEO and one coach and we changed our captain only once as we feel that if we want to develop as a cricketing nation we need to put major focus on stability and don’t try to go for chopping and changing,” he added.
The former Afghanistan all-rounder Ashraf has represented Afghanistan in 46 ODIs and 25 T20Is. Ashraf made his ODI debut against the Netherlands at the VRA Cricket Ground on August 30, 2009.
He had also made his First-Class debut against the same team in Afghanistan’s debut match in the Intercontinental Cup, wherein in the second inning, he took 4/24 to help Afghanistan register a historic win by one wicket.
He was part of the Afghanistan squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, where he has had some outstanding performances with the bat and ball. He was also appointed as Afghanistan’s ICC Ambassador for the Cricket World Cup 2019 in England and Wales.
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