Australian cricket team against Afghanistan in the UAE in 2012

International cricket tour

Afghanistan cricket team vs Australia in UAE 2012

	Afghanistan	Australia
Dates	25 August 2012 – 26 August 2012
Captains	Nawroz Mangal	Michael Clarke
One Day International series
Results	Australia won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Michael Clarke (75)	Asghar Afghan (66)
Most wickets	Karim Sadiq (2)	Mitchell Starc (4)
Player of the series	Mitchell Starc (Aus)

The Afghanistan national cricket team played the Australian national cricket team in a single One Day International (ODI) in the United Arab Emirates during Australia's concurrent series against Pakistan in UAE in August 2012. The match took place on 25 August, and was held at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. The match was notable for being the first time a One Day International would be played over two days and with both innings starting at night. The match started at 18:00 GST and was scheduled to finish at around 1:45 during the morning of the 26th. It was also Afghanistan's second ODI against a full member of the International Cricket Council, following their one off ODI earlier in the year against Pakistan, and their first meeting in any format against Australia. Australia won this first meeting between the sides by 66 runs.

Squads

Afghanistan	Australia
Nawroz Mangal (c) Asghar Afghan Dawlat Zadran Gulbadin Naib Izatullah Dawlatzai Javed Ahmadi Karim Sadiq Mohammad Nabi Sami Agha Mohammad Shahzad (wk) Najibullah Zadran Noor Ali Zadran Rahmat Shah Samiullah Shinwari Shapoor Zadran	Michael Clarke (c) George Bailey Dan Christian Xavier Doherty Callum Ferguson David Hussey Michael Hussey Mitchell Johnson Clint McKay Glenn Maxwell James Pattinson Steven Smith Mitchell Starc Matthew Wade (wk) David Warner

25 August 2012
Scorecard

Australia 272/8 (50 overs)	v	Afghanistan 206 (43.5 overs)
Michael Clarke 75 (94) Karim Sadiq 2/22 (6 overs)		Asghar Afghan 66 (106) Mitchell Starc 4/47 (9 overs)

Australia won by 66 runs
Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah
Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and Shozab Raza (Pak)
Player of the match: Mitchell Starc (Aus)

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v t e International cricket in 2012
Preceding season: International cricket in 2011–12
April 2012	Sri Lanka women in West Indies
May 2012	West Indies in England
June 2012	Pakistan in Sri Lanka Triangular Series in Zimbabwe (unofficial) Australia in England and Ireland New Zealand in West Indies Ireland women in England India women in England
July 2012	South Africa in England India in Sri Lanka Afghanistan in Ireland Bangladesh in Ireland and Netherlands
August 2012	New Zealand in India Australia against Afghanistan in UAE Australia against Pakistan in UAE Pakistan women in Ireland Bangladesh women in Ireland Ireland women's Tri-Nation Series
September 2012	Pakistan women in England West Indies women in England
Following season: International cricket in 2012–13

v t e Bilateral cricket tours with Afghanistan as the home team
Test and LOI tours
Australia	2012
Bangladesh	2018
Canada	2009–10
Ireland	2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21
Netherlands	2021–22
New Zealand	2024
Pakistan	2011–12
South Africa	2024–25
West Indies	2019–20
Zimbabwe	2015–16 2017–18 2020–21

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