South Africa will look to make the most out of their tour of UAE, where they will be facing Afghanistan and Ireland in their white-ball assignments. The Proteas will be missing their regular ODI skipper for the first 50-over contest against Afghanistan on September 18.

South Africa were bundled out for their fifth-lowest ODI total as Afghanistan manged to get them all-out for the first-time ever in white ball cricket. Farooqi and Ghazanfar shared seven wickets between them.

The in-form pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi bowled a memorable spell in the powerplay and youngster Allah Gazanfar picked his maiden international wickets to bowl out South Africa to their joint-seventh lowest ODI total of 106 bowling first.

Afghanistan impresses with dominant bowling as South Africa crumbles for 106 in ODI series opener.

Afghanistan carved out six-wicket victory over inexperienced South Africa on Wednesday in the first one-day international of their three-match series. Fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi and 18-year-old off-spinner AM Ghazanfar dominated the top-order to mark an impressive start for Afghanistan in its maiden bilateral ODI series against South Africa, which crumbled…

Afghanistan took another giant step in ODI cricket after crushing South Africa in a six-wicket victo...