Samiullah Shenwari

Samiullah Shenwari (Pashto: سميع الله شينواري‎) (born December 31, 1987) is an Afghan cricketer who represents Afghanistan in international level. He is a right-handed batsman and leg break bowler who normally act as a batting all-rounder in the team.

Shenwari is a part of the rapidly rising Afghan cricket team that in under a year has won the World Cricket League Division Five, Division Four and Division Three, thus promoting them to Division Two and allowing them to partake in the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier where they gained ODI status.

He later played for the newly formed Afghan Cheetahs team in the Faysal Bank Twenty-20 Cup 2011-12.

Shenwari was run out just one run short of his highest score in ODIs. He had scored 82 against Kenya in Amstelveen in 2010. This was his fourth fifty in ODIs and his first against a Test nation.

Asghar Stanikzai and Shenwari added 164 runs for the sixth wicket for Afghanistan which was the highest sixth-wicket partnership in the Asia Cup beating the 112 runs added by Alok Kapali and Mahmudullah against India at National Stadium, Karachi in 2008.

The partnership was Afghanistan's highest for the sixth wicket in ODIs and their first century partnership for that wicket. Their previous highest partnership for the sixth wicket was 86 between Raees Ahmadzai and Shenwari against Scotland in Benoni in 2009.

The partnership was also Afghanistan's third-highest partnership for any wicket and only their sixth hundred partnerships in ODIs.

T20I Five wicket hauls

#	Figures	Match	Opponent	Venue	City	Country	Year
1	5/13	20	Kenya	Sharjah Cricket Stadium	Sharjah	U.A.E	2013

One-Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	Scotland	Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah	8 March 2013	9-1-42-3 ; 30* (49 balls, 1x4)	Afghanistan won by 5 wickets.
2	Bangladesh	Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah	1 March 2014	81 (69 balls, 10x4, 1x6) ; 6-0-23-1 ; 1 ct.	Afghanistan won by 32 runs.
3	Scotland	University Oval, Dunedin	26 February 2015	96 (147 balls, 7x4, 5x6)	Afghanistan won by 1 wicket.

Twenty20 International Cricket

Man of the Match Awards

#	Series	Date	Against	Match Performance	Result
1	2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier	18 March 2012	Canada	61 (34 balls, 6x4, 3x6) ; 4-0-14-4	Afghanistan won by 41 runs.
2	2014 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier	24 November 2013	Kenya	2 (2 balls) ; 4-0-13-5	Afghanistan won by 34 runs.
3	Ireland v Afghanistan in India	8 March 2017	Ireland	56 (36 balls, 6x4, 3x6)	Afghanistan won by 6 wickets.

Player of the Series Awards

#	Series	Season	Match Performance	Result
1	2014 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier	2014	Bowling: 6 wickets with one five-wicket haul. avg. 8.50. Batting: 39 runs (4 matches)	Ireland won the series.