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AFG vs ZIM: Composed Hashmatullah Shahidi Becomes 1st From Afghanistan To Scale 'Mount 200'

By IANS News March 11, 2021 • 20:54 PM View: 2605

Hashmatullah Shahidi was aged 9 when he started taking cricket seriously and his father took him to a club in Kabul.

At the age of 24, he played in a World Cup for Afghanistan and on Thursday, 26-year-old Shahidi became the first from his country to score a double century in Test cricket, against Zimbabwe here.

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