Ajay Jadeja has been appointed as the mentor of the Afghanistan cricket team .

Delhi: The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has hired former India captain Ajay Jadeja as team mentor for the ICC ODI World Cup which will start on Thursday in India.

Ajay Jadeja had been a prolific cricketer for India and he worked as coach of Delhi in 2015 in domestic cricket following which he took up commentary duties. Jadeja was seen overseeing the preparations of the Afghanistan cricket team at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium.

Ajay Jadeja has 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.Jadeja has also represented India in 196 ODIs, scoring 5359 runs at 37.47 with 6 hundreds and 30 fifties to his name in the formatHe has also been part of 111 first class matches, Jadeja has amassed 8100 runs, while in 291 List A games he has scored over 8300 runs.

Currently, the Afghanistan Cricket team is in India getting ready for the World Cup. Their preparations, however, were hampered during the initial round of warm-up games when their match against South Africa was cancelled due to heavy rain in Thiruvananthapuram. Not a single ball was bowled.

Afghanistan will play their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup warm-up match against Sri Lanka in Guwahati on Tuesday and they will start their World Cup campaign on October 7 in Dharamshala facing Bangladesh.

Afghanistan squad: Hashmatullah Shahidi, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Rahmat Shah, Riaz Hassan, Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Abdul Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Naveen-Ul-HaqReserves: Gulbadin Naib, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Fareed Ahmad