Ajay Jadeja named Afghan team’s mentor for Cricket World Cup

Former Indian Captain and middle-order batter Ajay Jadeja has been appointed as mentor of Afghanistan’s team for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023, it was announced Monday.

Jadeja played 15 test matches for India from 1992 to 2000, scoring 576 runs at 26.18 with 4 half-centuries to his name and a best of 96. He also represented India in 196 One Day Internationals (ODIs) during the same period, having scored 5,359 runs at 37.47 with 6 one hundreds and 30 fifties to his name in the format, Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said in a statement.

He has also been part of 111 First Class and 291 List A games and has scored over 8,000 runs in each format with 31 hundreds and 88 fifties combined in both formats of the game.

Afghanistan team is currently in India for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023. Their first match in the tournament will be against Bangladesh on October 7 in Dharamshala.

However, the team will face a warm up match against Sri Lanka on Tuesday.

Watch all warm up matches live

Ariana Television Network kicked off its live broadcast campaign of the ODI World Cup on Friday, September 29. Sadly, Afghanistan’s first warm up match – against South Africa – was rained out.

Tuesday’s warm up match will be broadcast live, on Ariana Television, along with other key matches. However, the balance of matches will be streamed live on our website.

Ariana Television’s broadcasts of warm up matches will start at 12:30pm on Tuesday and live streaming of the other matches will start at 1pm.

For the full warm up broadcast and streaming schedule see table below.