Zahir Khan has being one of the best bowlers of his times just like how today Bumrah is the best . He also played by a vital role in India winning the World Cup of 50 overs as his bowling was really lethal during that stage of his career and the World Cup .

The name of the Indian bowler is Zaheer Khan. On the other hand, Zahir Khan is a 20-year old spinner from Afghanistan who has represented the Jamaica Tallawahs during the 2019 season of the Caribbean Premier League. Prior to this, he took part in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). Afghanistan is full of young talent, and as Rashid said, they needs to play more games against the top sides. I understand that the Big 3 (India, Australia and England) doesn't have spare time to play against the smaller teams. But at least the ICC can persuade teams such as South Africa and New Zealand to play against them occasionally.

Also they have only one big player in the team who is Rashid khan. If you remove him out of the team, the team is just ordinary which have no chance to win even against small teams. They should make themselves better before thinking of playing more series with better teams. Think of the Srilanka team in 1996 which had so many good players that they even won the world cup.

I can't agree with your views. They are not overly dependent on Rashid Khan. His performance during the recently concluded tri series in Bangladesh was brilliant, but that doesn't mean that the other players didn't played well. Afghanistan is a well balanced team and especially in the spin department they have plenty of options. Mujeeb Ur Rahman Zadran is just 18 years old, but he has emerged as a world class spinner capable of troubling the best batsmen in the world.

The only department where they seems to be struggling is with the middle order and lower middle order batting. In many of the matches, their openers (Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmanullah Gurbaz) were able to give them good starts, but the middle order collapsed and in the end they lost the matches due to it. This is an area where they need reinforcement. 

But just check the age of their star players. Don't forget that Rashid is just 21 years old. Most of the team is composed of teenagers and those in their early 20s. They have a very bright future ahead.

Okay when I was reading about Zahir Khan I had Zaheer Khan in mind. I saw his era and a fan of his performance.

About this Zahir Khan, this is the first time I actually noticed his name and talk about him. Seems like he made good name for himself.

I always thought he is older LOL
Yeah, Afghanistan team is very young and they need exposure. Whenever they get it they need to use it to prove themselves. In the next 5 to 10 years we may see a totally different Afghanistan who will regularly give fight and win against current A graded teams like Australia, England and India.

These players are relatively lucky... A decade ago, they would have never got any chance to compete against the players from test nations. But the emergence of T20 leagues have given many of these little known players this opportunity. Large number of Afghan players are active in leagues such as CPL, BBL, BPL and Global T20. Even players from Nepal, Hong Kong, Namibia, Canada and USA are playing in these leagues. Unfortunately the Euro T20 Slam was cancelled this year. Else many more players would have got a chance.

Right! I'm totally agree with you here. There have some good players in Afghanistan team who has a bright career. I would like to input the name of Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb. Both of them are world class spin blower and batsman @Mohammad Nabi.

Afghanistan are not only dependent on Rashid anymore, as you’ll have correctly mentioned other players have also developed to make their team stronger. I feel they should play more international tournaments as that will give them valuable experience, which will further help them defeat big teams in the future.

Do we have a betting line for these games, have not seen any matches of Nepal but i can guess there is no way they are going to defeat Zimbabwe as they can even pose a challenge to teams like Afghanistan and Bangladesh even though they are weak in terms of the giants in the cricketing world. I am waiting for their next match to wage a bet to try my luck .

I think your post is baseless, how do you think Afghan is up and Nepal will not be able to beat them? Nepal will be able to beat Zimbabwe, for your info Zimbabwe beat Afghan some days ago, you think it as a rare case? Well, in that case, Afghan beat Bangladesh is also the same. Bangladesh also beat Afghan in the 2nd match.