Ismat Alam

Ismat Alam (born 2 February 2002) is an Afghan cricketer. He is a right handed-batsman and right arm fast medium bowler. He made his test cricket debut for Afghanistan on 2 January 2025 against Zimbabwe.

Domestic career He made his first-class debut in November 2022. With the Pamir Legends he won the 2024–25 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament and finished as the top run-scorer in the competition, with 723 runs from six matches at an average of 103.23. This included a highest score of 263 not out. On debut in the New Year's Test in Bulawayo, he scored a 181-ball 101 whilst batting at No.8 in the second innings, following a duck in the first innings. It was the 11th time a batter had scored a century on debut from No. 8 or below, and the first since New Zealand wicketkeeper Tom Blundell did so against the West Indies in 2017.