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The camp has been staged by the Global Academy, who are very active in terms of building the capacity of Associate and Affiliate cricket.

Nowroz Mangal, Mohammad Nabi Isakhail, Karim Sadiq, Asghar Stanikzai, Shabir Noori and Najibullah Zadran are the 6 Afghan batsmen who are currently in India for the camp, where they are being coached by some of the top Indian batting coaches.

In an official press-release by the board, deputy CEO of the Afghan Board, Dost Muhammad Nazari, who is in Pune with the players enlightened the batting weakneses of the Afghan players and hoped this camp would improve their skills up to the upcoming ACC T20 tournament to be held in Nepal.

"For the for last couple of days we have been training one pitches similar to the ones in Nepal and we hope this will help the boys on their quest to defend their trophy" Nazari said.

Afghanistan has expressed desire to play some friendly matches with Nepal ahead of the ACC Twenty20 Cricket Tournament and will therefore leave for Nepal on 28th of November, a few days ahead of the other teams.

Afghanistan, who are the Denfending Champions will play its first match in ACC Twenty20 Cup against Hong Kong on 3rd of December. In totale 10 nations will participtie in this event.

Read also: ACC T20 Tournament Fixture Released

Afghanistan will be sending the following squad for the tournament. Nawroz Mangal (c), Mohammad Nabi (v.c), Asghar Stanikzai, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Samiullah Shenwari, Gulbadin Naib, Najibullah Zadran, Karim Sadiq, Shabir Noori, Mirwais Ashraf, Hamid Hassan, Dawlat Zadran, Zamir Khan and Nasim

RESERVE Players: Amir Mangal, Izzatullah Dawlatzai and Rahmat Shah Rokhan

Team Manager: Shafiqullah Stanikzai
Physio: Azeem Malik
Media Manager: Nasratullah Wafa
Coach: Will be ancounced soon.