Keramatullah — the Emerging pick from Paktika

Keramatullah — Batter

Keramatullah is in the Akcel United Kabul squad for APL 2026-27 — an Emerging pick at the Dubai draft, a 24-year-old batter from Paktika, and one of the least-known names in the squad.

Keramatullah’s name reached a wider audience on 3 November 2026, when Akcel United Kabul picked him in the Emerging category at the APL player draft in Dubai. He is 24, born in Paktika on 4 November 2002, and the squad table lists him simply as a batter — a domestic cricketer who has earned his place the slow way, through Afghanistan’s regional and franchise cricket.

His best T20 score is 71 not out, made in Shpageeza 2026 — the domestic T20 tournament where Kabul’s scouts found several of their squad, including Imran Mir and Abdul Rahman Rahmani. His domestic teams are Mis Ainak Region, the Amo Sharks, Amo Region and Paktika: a career built across Afghanistan’s regions, not in the spotlight.

That is what makes him interesting. The APL draft took 90 players from a pool of 462 across 18 rounds, and every Emerging pick is a bet on a player the scouts believe can make the jump. Keramatullah’s chance will come in the middle order, and his job is the simplest in the squad: score runs when the opportunity arrives, and make the selectors remember the name.

APL 2026-27 in numbers

The season has not started yet, so Keramatullah has no APL 2026-27 numbers at all. The first ball is on Sunday 27 December 2026 at 5:30 PM Afghanistan time (5:00 PM Dubai time) in the UAE, and this page will carry his season figures from Match 1 onwards. Until then, the table below is honest: played 0, and everything else to be announced.

What he brings into the season, in verified figures:

Season figures are to be announced — the season starts on 27 December 2026. Career figures are from the verified player record.

Where he fits at Akcel United Kabul

Keramatullah plays for Akcel United Kabul in APL 2026-27, captained by Azmatullah Omarzai and coached by Shane McDermott, with Nikhil Chopra as mentor. The squad of nineteen was set at the draft in Dubai on 3 November 2026 — 90 players picked from 462 across 18 rounds.

Keramatullah is the squad’s quiet bet — an Emerging batter whose chance will come in the middle order, when an injury or a run of form opens a door. Kabul’s batting has stars at the top; its depth is players like him. The season starts on Sunday 27 December 2026 in the UAE; APL will follow every Kabul match, with fixtures on the APL Schedule and the standings on the APL Points Table. The full squad is on the APL Players page.

Five teams chase four playoff places in a double round-robin, so every team plays eight league matches — each opponent twice — and one side goes home after the league stage. The final is on Wednesday 20 January 2027. Kabul are a new club with no APL record yet, and that is the point: everything this squad does in 2026-27 will be a first.