Asghar Afghan sacked as Afghanistan captain over Zimbabwe loss, new captain named

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Monday sacked Asghar Afghan from captaincy, blaming him for the loss against first Test match versus Zimbabwe in March this year. Afghanistan had won the 2nd Test to draw the series 1-1.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Monday sacked Asghar Afghan as from the national team captaincy, blaming him for losing the test match against Zimbabwe in March at Abu Dhabi. "The decision to remove Asghar Afghan from captaincy was taken based on an investigation conducted by ACB’s Investigative committee which concluded that some of Afghan’s decisions as the captain of the team resulted in Afghanistan’s loss to Zimbabwe in the first Test of the series between both sides in Abu Dhabi in March," read the full statement from the board. Afghanistan Cricket Board members approved the proposition to go ahead with split-captaincy for the national team, and thereby effectively removing Asghar Afghan as skipper.More: https://t.co/8sZZZnNITj pic.twitter.com/F1RJqQBN4t The ACB said in a statement on Monday that “some of Afghan’s decisions as captain of the team resulted in Afghanistan’s loss to Zimbabwe in the first test of the series.”