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Ibrahim Zadran
	Zadran in 2022
Personal information
Born	12 December 2001 (age 22); Khost, Afghanistan
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	Opening batter
Relations	Noor Ali Zadran (uncle); Mujeeb Ur Rahman (cousin);
International information
National side	Afghanistan (2019-present);
Test debut (cap 15)	5 September 2019 v Bangladesh
Last Test	2 February 2024 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 48)	11 November 2019 v West Indies
Last ODI	10 November 2023 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.	18
T20I debut (cap 41)	14 November 2019 v West Indies
Last T20I	25 June 2024 v Bangladesh
T20I shirt no.	18
Domestic team information
2017–present	Mis Ainak Knights (squad no. 109)
Career statistics
	Source: Cricinfo, 9 February 2024

Ibrahim Zadran (Pashto: ابراهیم ځدراڼ; born 12 December 2001) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his Test match debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in September 2019.^[2]He is the current vice-captain of Afghanistan Cricket Team in T20I cricket.

Domestic career

He made his List A debut for Mis Ainak Region in the 2017 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament on 11 August 2017.^[3] He made his Twenty20 debut for Mis Ainak Knights in the 2017 Shpageeza Cricket League on 12 September 2017.^[4]

In September 2018, he was named in Nangarhar's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.^[5]

In 2021, Ibrahim played for Boyne Hill in Berkshire. He played as an opener and scored 479 runs in 15 matches.^[6]

International career

In December 2017, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.^[7] He was the leading run-scorer for Afghanistan in the tournament, with 186 runs.^[8]

In December 2018, he was named in Afghanistan's under-23 team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup.^[9]

In August 2019, he was named in Afghanistan's Test squad for their one-off match against Bangladesh.^[10]^[11] He made his Test debut, in the one-off match against Bangladesh, on 5 September 2019.^[12] The following month, he was named in Afghanistan's squads for their series against the West Indies.^[13] He made his One Day International (ODI) debut, against the West Indies, on 11 November 2019.^[14] He made his T20I debut for Afghanistan, also against the West Indies, on 14 November 2019.^[15]

In December 2019, he was named in Afghanistan's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.^[16] He was the leading run-scorer for Afghanistan in the tournament, with 240 runs in five matches.^[17] In June 2022, in the second match against Zimbabwe, Zadran scored his first century in ODI cricket, with an unbeaten 120 runs.^[18] In November 2022, he scored his second ODI century (106), against Sri Lanka in Pallekelle.^[19] He won the player of the match award. In the third match of the same series, he smashed 162 runs, breaking the record for highest score by a player from his country in this format.^[20] He ended the series with 278 runs at an average of 92.66, and won the player of the series award.^[21]

Six months later, in June 2023, he made 98 against Sri Lanka in the first match of the 2023 series, in Hambantota, winning the player of the match award.^[22] In four innings in Sri Lanka, he has scored 106, 10, 162 and 98.

He made his World Cup debut on 7 October 2023 against Bangladesh in India in the 2023 Cricket World Cup. He scored 22 runs off 24 balls in a losing cause.^[23] He played a match-winning knock against Pakistan, scoring 87 runs off 113 balls.^[24] He was declared payer of the match, which he dedicated to the Afghan refugees.^[25] Zadran made the highest ever score by an Afghan player in the ICC World Cup on 7 November 2023 against Australia at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai by scoring 129 runs not out from 147 balls. This was Afghanistan's first century in a World Cup game.^[26]