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Today marks the start of a new 50 Over domestic tournament. Three teams will face off against each other over the next fortnight.

The inaugural saw Maiwand beat Pamir courtesy of one of Afghanistan's rising talents. Darwish Rasooli top scored with 84 runs in Maiwand's total of 254-9. Pamir fought them hard and with 5 overs left it looked like they might have it in them, but lost 4 wickets in quick succession to finish 10 runs short.

Maiwand and Hindukush play the second fixture on Tuesday.

Hindukush’s debut in this tournament was a strong one.

They were put in to bat and put on a decent score of 232 despite the regular fall of wickets. Afghan journeyman Mujeeb Ur Rahman was Maiwand’s biggest hitter with decent figures of 3-27.

Mujeeb was let down by their batters, however, as they were rocked out for a mere 129 after never being able to rally back from 11-4. Not even the rain could help them as their chase was shortened to 40 overs and the total down to 209. They ended up being downed after 32 overs needing 80 runs.

Hindukush’s debut in this tournament was a strong one.



They were put in to bat and put on a decent score of 232 despite the regular fall of wickets. Afghan journeyman Mujeeb Ur Rahman was Maiwand’s biggest hitter with decent figures of 3-27.

Mujeeb was let down by their batters, however, as they were rocked out for a mere 129 after never being able to rally back from 11-4. Not even the rain could help them as their chase was shortened to 40 overs and the total down to 209. They ended up being downed after 32 overs needing 80 runs.

Hindukush are by far the strongest team in this tournament and underlined that in the sixth match by beating Pamir. The chasing pack are all equally inconsistent as they have only won a single game each – against each other.

Pamir’s Shabir Noori put up a decent fight after Hindukush put on their highest score of the tournament thus far – 298. This fight was fairly single handed though as apart from him and Shaidullah, nobody got over 28. There was quite a leap for Pamir as they went from 36-3 in the 6th over to 203-4 in the 46th. However that poor start really stung them at the end.

Zia-Ur-Rehman was already the leading wicket taker but has taken 4 more wickets across today’s game and Monday’s win over Maiwand to take his tally to 12 – almost double the amount of second place. Shaidullah’s score of 90 was enough to propel him to the top of the runscorers. He has a princely 75 run jump on second place.

Inevitably, and quite rightly, Hindukush won the final against Pamir today.

When Pamir put on just 172 in their rain shortened 33 overs it seemed very likely that Hindustan (no strangers to big hitting) would polish it off. Indeed they did, but they lost a great many more wickets than you would have thought. Were it not for 60 runs from opener Ibrahim Zadran in amongst a chaotic start we could have been in for a bit of an upset….but alas no.

Hindukush’s Zia-ur-Rehman ended the tournament with 14 wickets @ 12; 6 more than anybody else whilst Pamir’s Shahidullah’s 271 @ 67.75 was the pick of the batters.