Baheer Shah

Baheer Shah
Personal information
Born (2000-02-21) 21 February 2000
Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Batting Right-handed
Bowling Right-arm off break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2017— Speen Ghar
Career statistics
Competition FC LA
Matches 14 2
Runs scored 1504 16
Batting average 71.61 8.00
100s/50s 6/4 0/0
Top score 303* 16
Balls bowled 78 0
Wickets 2 0
Bowling average 38.00 n/a
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/15 n/a
Catches/stumpings 14/1 2/0
Source: Cricinfo, 27 July 2018

Baheer Shah (born 21 February 2000) is an Afghan cricketer.[1] He made his first-class debut for Speen Ghar Region in the 2017–18 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament on 20 October 2017, scoring 256 runs not out in the first innings.[2] It was the second-highest score on debut, and he became the 17th player to score a double century on first-class debut.[3][4]

The following month, in his third first-class match, he scored a century in both innings, making 111 and 116 respectively.[5] In his next match, he scored 303 not out in the first innings against Boost Region.[6] He became the second-youngest player, after Javed Miandad, to score a triple century in first-class cricket.[7] From his first six innings in first-class cricket he made 831 runs, the most by any player, breaking the previous record of 741 runs made by Bill Ponsford.[8] He scored his 1,000th run in first-class cricket in his eleventh innings, the second-fastest behind Ponsford.[9] He finished the 2017–18 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament as the leading run-scorer, with a total of 1,096 runs.[10]

In December 2017, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[9] In January 2018, his batting average in first-class cricket was 121.77.[11] This was the highest for any batsman who had scored at least 1,000 first-class runs, with Donald Bradman second on the list with an average of 95.14.[11]

However, for the 2018 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament, his form dropped, scoring 408 runs in 7 matches, with just one century.[12] His average for the tournament was 34, with his career average dropping to 71.61.[12]

He made his List A debut for Speen Ghar Region in the 2018 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament on 11 July 2018.[13] He only played in two matches during the tournament, scoring a total of sixteen runs, with an average of eight.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "Baheer Shah". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "2nd Match, Alokozay Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament at Amanullah, Oct 20-23 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "Afghanistan cricketer Baheer Shah scores 256* on First-Class debut; enters record book". Cricket County. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "First-class records: Double hundred on debut". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "5th Match, Alokozay Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament at Kabul, Nov 1-4 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "7th Match, Alokozay Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament at Khost, Nov 7-10 2017". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Baheer Shah becomes the 2nd youngest player to score a triple century in first-class cricket". CricTracker. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "This 18-yr-old Afghan can leave behind even Tendulkar and Kohli". Wah Cricket. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Mujeeb Zadran in Afghanistan squad for Under-19 World Cup". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "2017–18 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament: Most Runs". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Meet Baheer Shah, the Afghan wunderkind who is outdoing Bradman". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  12. 1 2 "Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament 2018: Speen Ghar Region, Batting and Bowling Averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "Group B, Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament at Khost, Jul 11 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  14. ↑ "Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament, 2018 - Speen Ghar Region: Batting and bowling averages". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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