Samiullah Shinwari (; born 31 December 1987) is an Afghan

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er who represents

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at the international level. He is a right-handed batsman and

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bowler. He made his international debut, against

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, in April 2009.

Career

Domestic career

Shinwari played for the then newly formed Afghan Cheetahs team in the

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. In the final group stage match of the

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, he scored 192

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, batting for Speen Ghar Region against Amo Region. He finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer, with 398 runs in six matches. In September 2018, Shinwari was named in Paktia's squad in the

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of the

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tournament.

International career

Shinwari is part of the rapidly rising Afghan cricket team that in under a year has won the

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Division Five,

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and

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, thus promoting them to Division Two and allowing them to partake in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier where they gained

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(ODI) status. Shinwari was run out just one run short of his highest score in ODIs. He had scored 82 against

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in 2010. This was his fourth fifty in ODIs and his first against a Test nation. Asghar Stanikzai and Shinwari added 164 runs for the sixth wicket for Afghanistan which was the highest sixth-wicket partnership in the

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beating the 112 runs added by Alok Kapali and

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against

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in 2008. The partnership was Afghanistan's highest for the sixth wicket in ODIs and their first century partnership for that wicket. The partnership was also Afghanistan's third-highest partnership for any wicket and only their sixth hundred partnerships in ODIs. Shinwari was a member of Afghanistan's 15 man squad for the

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. In November 2019, he was named as the captain of Afghanistan's squad for the

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. On 6 March 2020, against Ireland in the first T20I, Shinwari completed 1,000 T20I runs, thus becoming only the 4th Afghan player to reach 1,000 T20I runs.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shinwari, Samiullah 1987 births Living people Afghanistan One Day International cricketers 21st-century Afghan sportsmen Afghanistan Twenty20 International cricketers Cricketers from Nangarhar Province Afghan expatriates in Pakistan Afghan Cheetahs cricketers Khulna Tigers cricketers Afghan expatriate cricketers in Bangladesh Asian Games medalists in cricket Cricketers at the 2010 Asian Games Cricketers at the 2014 Asian Games Cricketers at the 2015 Cricket World Cup Cricketers at the 2019 Cricket World Cup Boost Defenders cricketers Spin Ghar Tigers cricketers Asian Games silver medalists for Afghanistan Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Paktia Panthers cricketers