# Afghan cricket team in the West Indies in 2017

The Afghanistan cricket team toured the West Indies in June 2017 to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and a tour match. It was Afghanistan's second bilateral tour against a full member nation after Zimbabwe. Originally the tour was going to consist of five ODIs and three T20Is. The West Indies won the T20I series 3–0. The ODI series was drawn 1–1 after the final match was washed out with no result.

## Squads

| ODIs | ODIs | T20Is | T20Is |
| West Indies | Afghanistan | West Indies | Afghanistan |
| Jason Holder (c) Devendra Bishoo Jonathan Carter Roston Chase Miguel Cummins Shannon Gabriel Shai Hope Alzarri Joseph Evin Lewis Jason Mohammed Ashley Nurse Kieran Powell Rovman Powell | Asghar Stanikzai (c) Farid Ahmad Javed Ahmadi Usman Ghani Amir Hamza Nasir Jamal Rashid Khan Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Shafiqullah Shafaq Samiullah Shinwari Dawlat Zadran Noor Ali Zadran Shapoor Zadran Afsar Zazai Rahmat Shah Zurmatai | Carlos Brathwaite (c) Samuel Badree Ronsford Beaton Evin Lewis Jason Mohammed Sunil Narine Kieron Pollard Rovman Powell Marlon Samuels Lendl Simmons Jerome Taylor Chadwick Walton Kesrick Williams | Asghar Stanikzai (c) Farid Ahmad Javed Ahmadi Usman Ghani Amir Hamza Karim Janat Rashid Khan Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Samiullah Shinwari Shafiqullah Shafaq Dawlat Zadran Najibullah Zadran Noor Ali Zadran Shapoor Zadran |

## Tour match

* 30 May 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 115/9 (20 overs) | v | West Indies Cricket Board President's XI 103/9 (20 overs) |
| Usman Ghani 33 (34) Miguel Cummins 3/19 (4 overs) | | Johnson Charles 53 (44) Rashid Khan 3/11 (4 overs) |
* Afghanistan won by 12 runs Warner Park, Basseterre Umpires: Gregory Brathwaite (WI) and Nigel Duguid (WI)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.

## T20I series
### 1st T20I

* 2 June 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 110 (20 overs) | v | West Indies 114/4 (16.3 overs) |
| Rashid Khan 33 (27) Sunil Narine 3/11 (4 overs) | | Marlon Samuels 35 (36) Shapoor Zadran 2/30 (3.3 overs) |
* West Indies won by 6 wickets Warner Park, Basseterre Umpires: Gregory Brathwaite (WI) and Nigel Duguid (WI) Player of the match: Sunil Narine (WI)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* This result ended Afghanistan's eleven match winning streak, a T20I record.

### 2nd T20I

* 3 June 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| West Indies 112/3 (15 overs) | v | Afghanistan 93 (13.3 overs) |
| Chadwick Walton 29 (17) Gulbadin Naib 1/10 (2 overs) | | Karim Janat 20 (15) Kesrick Williams 3/11 (2.3 overs) |
* West Indies won by 29 runs (DLS method) Warner Park, Basseterre Umpires: Gregory Brathwaite (WI) and Joel Wilson (WI) Player of the match: Kesrick Williams (WI)
* West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
* The match was reduced to 15 overs per side due to rain with Afghanistan set a revised target of 123 runs.

### 3rd T20I

* 5 June 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 146/6 (20 overs) | v | West Indies 147/3 (19.2 overs) |
| Mohammad Nabi 38 (30) Kesrick Williams 3/34 (4 overs) | | Marlon Samuels 89* (66) Rashid Khan 1/22 (4 overs) |
* West Indies won by 7 wickets Warner Park, Basseterre Umpires: Leslie Reifer (WI) and Joel Wilson (WI) Player of the match: Marlon Samuels (WI)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.

## ODI series
### 1st ODI

* 9 June 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 212/6 (50 overs) | v | West Indies 149 (44.4 overs) |
| Javed Ahmadi 81 (102) Ashley Nurse 2/34 (10 overs) | | Shai Hope 35 (63) Rashid Khan 7/18 (8.4 overs) |
* Afghanistan won by 63 runs Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet Umpires: Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind) and Joel Wilson (WI) Player of the match: Rashid Khan (Afg)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Roston Chase (WI) made his ODI debut.
* Rashid Khan (Afg) recorded the fourth-best bowling figures in ODIs.
* This was the first win by Afghanistan against the West Indies and their first win against a Test team other than Bangladesh or Zimbabwe in ODIs.

### 2nd ODI

* 11 June 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan 135 (37.3 overs) | v | West Indies 138/6 (39.2 overs) |
| Gulbadin Naib 51 (73) Alzarri Joseph 2/15 (6 overs) | | Shai Hope 48* (77) Rashid Khan 3/26 (10 overs) |
* West Indies won by 4 wickets Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet Umpires: Nigel Duguid (WI) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind) Player of the match: Shai Hope (WI)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd ODI

* 14 June 2017 (D/N) Scorecard
| Afghanistan | v | West Indies |
* No result Daren Sammy Cricket Ground, Gros Islet Umpires: Leslie Reifer (WI) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)
* Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rain reduced the match initially to 43 overs per side but it continued after the toss, with no play possible.
* Leslie Reifer (WI) stood in his first ODI match as an umpire.