The South Africa cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates in September 2024 to play three One Day International (ODI) matches against Afghanistan cricket team. In July 2024, Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour. All the matches were played at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. It was the first bilateral ODI series between the two teams.
Afghanistan won the first ODI by six wickets, their first ever ODI victory over South Africa. The hosts won the second ODI by 177 runs, with Rahmanullah Gurbaz scoring 105 and Rashid Khan's five-wicket haul of 5/19, to secure their first series victory over South Africa. South Africa won the third ODI by 7 wickets, with Aiden Markram scoring an unbeaten 69.
Squads Hashmatullah Shahidi (c) Rahmat Shah (vc) Fareed Ahmad Ikram Alikhil (wk) Fazalhaq Farooqi Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk) Riaz Hassan Rashid Khan Nangialai Kharoti Abdul Malik Mohammad Nabi Gulbadin Naib Azmatullah Omarzai Darwish Rasooli Bilal Sami Naveed Zadran Temba Bavuma (c) Ottniel Baartman Nandre Burger Bjorn Fortuin Tony de Zorzi Reeza Hendricks Aiden Markram Wiaan Mulder Lungi Ngidi Nqaba Peter Andile Phehlukwayo Andile Simelane Jason Smith Tristan Stubbs (wk) Kyle Verreynne (wk) Lizaad Williams
On 17 September 2024, Temba Bavuma was ruled out of the first ODI due to illness, and Aiden Markram was named as the captain.
ODI series 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
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External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo