Rahmat Shah Zurmatai, a cricket player for the Afghan national team, was born on July 6, 1993. He bats right-handed and occasionally bowls leg breaks. In March 2013, he made his debut for Afghanistan on the world stage. He participated in Afghanistan’s inaugural Test match against India in June 2018 as one of the eleven cricketers that took the field. Rahmat became the first batsman for Afghanistan to record a century in Test cricket in the one-off Test between Afghanistan and Bangladesh in September 2019.
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Domestic career of Rahmat Shah:
Rahmat played in several first-class and One-Day International teams for Afghanistan. He has represented Afghanistan in List A cricket matches against Pakistan A and other local squads like Faisalabad and Rawalpindi. On September 12, 2017, he made his Twenty20 debut for the Band-e-Amir Dragons in the Shpageeza Cricket League.
With 258 runs scored in five games, Rahmat led the Mis Ainak Region in the 2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament. With eight dismissals in five games, he also had the most wickets for the group overall. As a member of Nangarhar’s Afghanistan Premier League team in September 2018, Rahmat represented the province.
International career of Rahmat Shah:
On March 6, 2013, Rahmat played in his first One Day International (ODI) for Afghanistan against Scotland. He scored his first ODI century on July 4, 2016, while Afghanistan was touring Scotland. Rahmat was included in the Afghan team for their first Test match against India in May 2018. On June 14, 2018, he played his first Test for Afghanistan against India. During Afghanistan’s one-off match against Ireland in India in February 2019, he was a member of the Test team.
Rahmat was included in the Afghanistan team for the 2019 Cricket World Cup in April 2019. With 254 runs in nine games, he finished the tournament as Afghanistan’s top run scorer. In April 2019, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) selected Shah to replace Asghar Afghan as the team’s new Test captain. After the 2019 Cricket World Cup, Rashid Khan was appointed captain of the Afghanistan cricket team in all three formats. As a result, Rahmat was replaced before leading the team in a Test match. Rahmat became the first batsman for Afghanistan to get a century in a Test match in September 2019 when he got a century in the lone Test match against Bangladesh.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Career Summary
| M | Inn | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 200 | 50 | 4s | 6s | |
| Test | 7 | 14 | 0 | 424 | 102 | 30.29 | 787 | 53.88 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 57 | 3 |
| ODI | 91 | 87 | 3 | 3182 | 114 | 37.88 | 4506 | 70.62 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 272 | 35 |
Bowling Career Summary
| M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Econ | Avg | SR | 5W | 10W | |
| Test | 7 | 3 | 66 | 43 | 1 | 1/30 | 1/34 | 3.91 | 43.0 | 66.0 | 0 | 0 |
| ODI | 91 | 27 | 530 | 514 | 14 | 5/32 | 5/32 | 5.82 | 36.71 | 37.86 | 1 | 0 |