Afghanistan cricket team reached Dharamshala
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After Bangladesh, cricketers from Afghanistan have also reached Dharamshala. The World Cup match is to be played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh on October 7 at Dharamshala Stadium. Like Bangladesh, Afghanistan players have also reached Dharamshala without their captain Hashmatullah Shahidi. It is being told that the captains of both the teams will reach Dharamshala a day before the match. On Wednesday, at around quarter to three, the Spice Jet plane landed at Gaggal airport carrying players from Afghanistan.
Here HPCA officials welcomed the players. The team’s star bowler Rashid Khan came out of the airport first. After this, other players Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hasan, Rahmat Shah, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Umerzai, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Noor Ahmed, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Abdul Rehman, Naveen Ul Haq Gaggal came out of the airport. And left for Taj Hotel located in Yol. Along with the Afghanistan team, their mentor Ajay Jadeja has also reached Dharamshala.
Afghan cricketers will practice in the morning and Bangladeshi cricketers in the evening.
The Afghanistan team will come for practice in the morning session at Dharamshala Stadium on Thursday. The team will sweat in the fields, fielding and playing in the nets from 10 am to 1 pm. Bangladesh players will practice in the second session from 2 pm to 5 pm. On Wednesday, Bangladesh players sweated in the gym. Bangladesh players reached the stadium gym from 9 am and returned to Hotel Radisson Blu by around 12 pm.
Offline ticket sales for the first three matches will start from tomorrow.
Offline tickets for the first three matches to be held in Dharamshala will start being available at the counter in the stadium from Thursday. A counter will be set up outside the stadium, where cricket lovers will be able to buy tickets from 10 am on Thursday. Let us tell you that tickets will be available only for the matches played on 7, 10 and 17 October.