Ajmatullah Umarjai created history, became the first player in the world to do so after 27 years

Ajmatullah Umarjai created history, became the first player in the world to do so after 27 years Tezzbuzz | 01/03/2025 11:24:16

Ajmatullah Umrajai 2025 The match between Australia and Afghanistan became history in the Champions Trophy, in a way a quarter -finals, in which both teams were in a do or die position to reach the semi -finals. Thanks to his excellent bowling, Afghanistan won by eight runs against England, after less than 48 hours, Umarzai scored a brilliant innings of 67 runs in just 63 balls, making the emerging Asian veterans won the toss and decided to bat first and scored a competition of 273 runs on the board. Earlier, after the early dismissal of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Jadaran in the day, Seedikullah Atal scored a concrete innings of 85 runs in 95 balls.

Ajmatullah Umarjai's big achievement

The Umarzai has become the second player to score a half -century and take five wickets in the same tournament of Umarzai Champions Trophy with his continuous all -rounder performance in the 2025 Champions Trophy. The only other player to do so is the veteran of South African cricket, Jacks Kallis. He achieved this feat in the inaugural tournament in 1998.

Kallis had this record

Kallis played a memorable innings of 113 runs in 100 balls in the semi -final against Sri Lanka in Dhaka. After this, he took five wickets for just 30 runs in the protiaz victory against the West Indies in the final. Kallis is the only player in the history of the Champions Trophy to have both centuries and five wickets.

Afridi also took five wickets

Apart from Umarzai and Kallis, Shahid Afridi has also taken five wickets and has scored a half -century. Afridi scored 55 runs in 18 balls against the Netherlands at the SSC Stadium in Colombo in the 2002 tournament, which is the fastest 50 runs in the history of the competition. Later, he took five wickets in just six overs against Kenya in Birmingham in 2004 and gave just 11 runs.

In the match against England, Umarzai scored 41 runs in 37 balls. This was the first case of a player taking five wickets in the history of the tournament and scoring more than 40 runs in the match. Kallis scored 37 runs in 51 balls after taking five wickets from the ball against the West Indies in the 1998 final.

Umarjai's brilliant campaign of 2025 Champions Trophy with bat and ball came after winning the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2024. He is the first Afghan cricketer to win the annual award by the World Cricket Governing Body.