Afghanistan cricket may have missed out on a semi-final spot in the ODI World Cup, but a strong showing throughout the tournament has earned them a spot in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. The Hashmatullah Shahidi-led side finished sixth on the points table with 8 points, their best-ever campaign in ODI World Cup history. A video of the Afghan cricketer Rahmanullah Gurbaz has gone viral on social media.
In every city they visited, the Afghans were showered with love and affection. They finished their journey in Ahmedabad with a 5-wicket loss to South Africa. A few days before their final match, a viral video went viral, showing wicketkeeper-batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz secretly helping homeless people sleeping on Ahmedabad’s footpaths.
A local radio jockey shared the video, stating that the incident occurred around 3 a.m. While the people were sleeping, Gurbaz got out of his car and placed INR 500 currency notes beside them before leaving without announcing his presence.
Afghan cricketer Rahmanullah Gurbaz goes viral:
Rahmanullah Gurbaz silently gave money to the needy people on the streets of Ahmedabad so they could celebrate Diwali.
– A beautiful gesture by Gurbaz. pic.twitter.com/6HY1TqjHg4
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) November 12, 2023
The video has gone viral, with people reposting it on their walls on the microblogging site X. Cricketnext does not claim that the person in the video is the cricketer himself, and Gurbaz has not yet responded to it.
Following back-to-back defeats against Bangladesh and India, Afghanistan responded with a historic victory over defending champions England in Delhi. They went on to beat Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Netherlands before falling to Australia and South Africa.
For the unversed, Rahmanullah Gurbaz is a cricketer from Afghanistan. In September 2019, he made his international debut for Afghanistan. His father and mother are from the Afghan Gurbaz tribe. In January 2021, he became Afghanistan’s first batsman to score a century on debut in a One Day International (ODI).
Gurbaz made his List A debut for Afghanistan A against Zimbabwe A on January 27, 2017, during their tour to Zimbabwe. On September 12, 2017, he made his Twenty20 debut for Mis Ainak Knights in the 2017 Shpageeza Cricket League. On March 1, 2018, he made his first-class debut for Mis Ainak Region in the 2018 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament.
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