Afghan cricket team in the Netherlands in 2009

The Afghanistan national cricket team toured the Netherlands in 2009. The tour consisted of two One Day Internationals and an Intercontinental Cup match against the Netherlands national cricket team.

Afghanistan cricket team in the Netherlands in 2009
	Afghanistan	Netherlands
Dates	24 August – 1 September 2009
Captains	Nowroz Mangal	Jeroen Smits
One Day International series
Results	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Mohammad Shehzad 126	Ryan ten Doeschate 156
Most wickets	Shapoor Zadran 5	Mudassar Bukhari 4

In the first-class match, Afghanistan won the Intercontinental Cup match by 1 wicket with Samiullah Shinwari scoring the winning runs. This victory also meant that this was the Afghanistan maiden international first-class win.^[1] The ODI series saw the matches end in a one all draw with the Netherlands taking the first match while Afghanistan won the second.

Intercontinental Cup match

24–27 August Scorecard

Netherlands	v	Afghanistan
181 (56.5 overs) Tom de Grooth 54 (86) Hamid Hassan 4/45 (17.5 overs)		107 (36.5 overs) Nowroz Mangal 41 (102) Peter Borren 3/21 (9 overs)
132 (38.1 overs) Peter Borren 63 (70) Mirwais Ashraf 4/24 (9.1 overs)		209/9 (89.3 overs) Noor Ali 56 (127) Edgar Schiferli 5/57 (24 overs)

Afghanistan won by 1 wicket VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Niels Bagh (Den) and Nadeem Ghauri (Pak)

• Points: Netherlands 6, Afghanistan 14

ODI series

1st ODI

30 August Scorecard

Netherlands  188 (47 overs)	v	Afghanistan 180/8 (49.5 overs)
Ryan ten Doeschate 59 (89) Shapoor Zadran 4/24 (10 overs)		Noor Ali 34 (59) Ryan ten Doeschate 4/35 (9.5 overs)

Netherlands won by 8 runs VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Niels Bagh (Den) and Nadeem Ghauri (Pak) Player of the match: Ryan ten Doeschate (Ned)

• Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field.

2nd ODI

1 September Scorecard

Netherlands  231/7 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 232/4 (46.4 overs)
Ryan ten Doeschate 98 (133) Nowroz Mangal 3/35 (6 overs)		Mohammad Shahzad 110 (112) Mudassar Bukhari 2/40 (8 overs)

Afghanistan won by 6 wickets VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Niels Bagh (Den) and Nadeem Ghauri (Pak) Player of the match: Mohammad Shahzad (Afg)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.

References

1. Cricinfo Staff (26 August 2009). "Afghanistan clinch low-scoring thriller". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 February 2024.