mohammad nabi announces retirement from odi cricket after icc champions trophy 2025 afghanistan

Mohammad Nabi Retirement: Mohammad Nabi, a name that has made a significant contribution in taking the Afghanistan cricket team to great heights. Now he says that he is going to retire from ODI cricket after Champions Trophy 2025. Afghanistan recently defeated Bangladesh 2-1 in the three-match ODI series. After Afghanistan's 5-wicket win in the last match of the series, Nabi surprised everyone by confirming his retirement in the post-match presentation.

Mohammad Nabi scored 135 runs while batting in this series, where his highest score was 84 runs. Apart from this, he also took two wickets in bowling, for this performance he was chosen Player of the Series. While receiving the award, Mohammad Nabi said, “I had decided to retire after the last World Cup, but then we qualified for the Champions Trophy. I felt that I can play in this tournament.”

World number-1 all-rounder

Mohammad Nabi has been playing for Afghanistan since 2009. In his nearly one and a half decade long career, he has so far represented his country in 167 ODI matches. During this period, he has also taken 3,600 runs in batting and 172 wickets in bowling. Nabi is currently the world's number-1 all-rounder player in ODI cricket. From his debut against Scotland in 2009 till his last match against Bangladesh, he has scored 2 centuries and 17 fifties in ODI matches. There is not a single Indian in the top-10 all-rounder list of ODI cricket.

How many teams are there in the Champions Trophy?

ICC last organized the Champions Trophy in 2017, in which Pakistan registered a historic victory. Now this tournament is going to return after eight years, which will be organized in Pakistan. For this, those 8 teams have qualified, which were in the first eight positions in the points table of the 2023 ODI World Cup. Afghanistan had qualified directly for the Champions Trophy by finishing sixth in that World Cup. Since India has refused to go to Pakistan to play the Champions Trophy, the schedule of the Champions Trophy has not been finalized yet.

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