The 2022 Shpageeza Cricket League was the eighth edition of the Shpageeza Cricket League, a professional Twenty20 cricket (T20) league established by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in 2013, and the fourth edition to have official T20 status. It was originally scheduled to run from 10 to 25 September 2021, with the number of teams increased from six to eight. However, no tournament took place in 2021, with the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announcing that the tournament would be played in June and July 2022. The Kabul Eagles were the defending champions.
Despite Afghanistan being brought under the control of the Taliban in August 2021, reports have stated that the Taliban had no issue with cricket, with the tournament scheduled to take place as planned. The Afghanistan cricket team were scheduled to tour Sri Lanka in September 2021 to play the Pakistan cricket team. In the event of that tour not taking place as planned, the ACB stated that the T20 tournament could be brought forward. However, as a result of the logistical problems regarding travelling to Sri Lanka, the matches were moved to Pakistan, before being postponed. In the final Speenghar Tigers defeated Boost Defenders by 6 runs to win their 3rd title.
Squads Squads were announced on 11 June 2022. Amo SharksBand-e-Amir DragonsBoost DefendersHindukush StarsKabul EaglesMis Ainak KnightsPamir ZalmiSpeenghar TigersIhsanullah Janat (c) Darwish Rasooli Abdul Wasi Yousuf Zazai Jamshid Khan Wafadar Momand Bahir Shah Asghar Atal Rahim Mangal Abidullah Taniwal Haji Murad Muradi Janat Gul Faridoon Dawoodzai Arif Khan Haya Khan Juma Gul Abdul Rashid Naseri Kamran Hotak Wafiullah Stanikzai Yahya Khan Farhad Usmani Noor-ul-Haq Noorullah Salman Shinwari Wadood Bilal Khan Hilal NooriAftab Alam (c) Rashid Khan Karim Janat Nijat Masood Noor Ahmad Mohammad Tahir Adil Asif Musazai Ikram Alikhil Imran Mir Nasir Totakhil Farmanullah Sediqullah Pacha Mohammad Sardar Irfan Safi Suliman Arabzai Mohabat Momand Amanullah Rafiqi Abdul Baqi Naveed Obaid Rifatullah Shinwari Ezat Barakzai Khalid Usman Wali Pathan Yasir Khan Bakhtullah Javeed KhanHashmatullah Shahidi (c) Samiullah Shinwari Abdul Rahman Fazalhaq Farooqi Farhan Zakhil Suliman Safi Abdul Malik Zia-ur-Rehman Ibrahim Safi Afsar Zazai Asadullah Matani Mohammad Saleem Mohammad Wasim Mandozai Hayatullah Nasiri Ainuddin Kakar Bilal Ahmad Qasim Oryakhail Kamil Kakar Zafar Khan Bilal Sayeedi Hassan Eisakhil Sabawoon Banoori Sadiqullah Totakhil Shahid Abdulrahimzai Mohammad Gul Munir Ahmad Ahmad Zia Samiullah Fazi Shahzad Mohd.Hazratullah Zazai (c) Hamid Hassan Mujeeb Ur Rahman Shabir Noori Nisar Wahdat Abdullah Adil Muslim Musa Zubaid Akbari Fitratullah Khawari Shamsurrahman Zia ul Haq Eisakhil Yousuf Shah Jalat Musazai Akbar Musazai Imran Mohammadi Usman Adil Abdul Hadi Parvez Amin Almas Shirzad Matiullah Usman Noori Afsar Amir Khan Farman Miram Gul Mohammad Tariq Yahya Yama Arab Hizbullah Durrani Yousuf ShahRahmanullah Gurbaz (c) Mohammad Nabi Akbar Ali Khostai Emal Shaheen Ibrahim Zadran Rahmanullah Zadran Sabir Hanif Ijaz Ahmadzai Khalil Gurbaz Nasim Mangal Shahidullah Kamal Wasim Akram Masood Gurbaz Ziaur Rahman Azmatullah Omarzai Haseebullah Lakanwal Naveen-ul-Haq Qais Ahmad Wahidullah Ali Waleed Stanekzai Amir Hamza (c) Mohammad Shahzad Asghar Afghan Sediqullah Atal Zahir Khan Nangialai Kharoti Gulbadin Naib Riaz Hassan Mir Hamza Bilal Sami Mohammadullah Hamkar Allah Noor Tariq Stanikzai Sami Totakhil Faisal Ahmadzai Iftikhar Ahmed Hanif Zardan Bakhtarullah Atal Khalid Zahedi Mohammad ZahirShapoor Zadran (c) Noor Ali Zadran Sayed Shirzad Dawlat Zadran Fazal Zazai Waheedullah Shafaq Ghamai Zadran Rahmat Sahaq Rahmat Shah Rokhan Barakzai Fazal Niazai Amir Zazai Islam Zazai Ijaz Ahmad Noor-ul-Haq Majeed Alam Popal Zabiullah Sardarzai Mohammadullah Hamkar Arshad Khan Mohammadullah NajibullahUsman Ghani (c) Najibullah Zadran Sharafuddin Ashraf Batin Shah Fareed Ahmad Asif Afridi Bahar Shinwari Izharulhaq Naveed Shawkat Zaman Ishaq Rahimi Yamin Ahmadzai Tamim Surkhorodi Mohammad Ibrahim Abid Mohammadi Ismat Alam Pakhtoon Sarfaraz Zahidullah Salmi Farhad Momand Mohammad Ishaq Sajjad Ibrahim
Standings Points table
Advanced to the qualifiers Advanced to the eliminator Eliminated from Tournament
Fixtures
Knockout stage Qualifier 1
Eliminator
Qualifier 2
Final
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