Mirwais Ashraf

Mirwais Ashraf Khan (born June 30, 1988) is an Afghan cricketer who plays for the national cricket team and has served as Chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board since 6 November 2021. Khan is a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler.

Career Ashraf made his One Day International (ODI) debut against the Netherlands at the VRA Cricket Ground on 30 August 2009. His first-class cricket debut was against the same opponents in Afghanistan's debut match in the Intercontinental Cup, where in the Netherlands' second innings he took four wickets for 24 runs to help set up an historic Afghan win by one wicket.

In September 2019, he was the leading wicket-taker in the 2019 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament, with 16 dismissals in six matches.

Board role In his capacity as the chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, Ashraf visited the burial sites of three Afghan cricket players killed in an airstrike from the Pakistan Air Force in Khandaro, a village in the Urgun District of Paktika Province on October 20, 2025, three days after the incident occurred. He was accompanied by Fareed Ahmad, Zahir Khan, Rahmat Shah, and Shabir Noori.