Nangeyalia Khan

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Nangeyalia Khan

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Paktia

A Silver pick with a senior record

Nangeyalia Khan was born in Baghlan on 25 April 2004. His full name is Nangeyalia Kharote — he is also listed as Nangialai Kharoti — he bats left-handed and bowls slow left-arm orthodox, and Paktia picked him in the Silver category at the Dubai draft on 3 November 2026 for a reported $20,000.

He was one of Paktia’s five Silver picks, alongside Hasibullah Lakanwal, Gerhard Erasmus, Olly Stone and Masoodulrahman Gurbaz, in a nineteen-player squad for a season starting on 27 December 2026 in the United Arab Emirates. The draft took 90 players from a pool of 462 registered cricketers, across six categories and 18 rounds.

He plays under captain Rahmanullah Gurbaz, with Azhar Mahmood as head coach and Waqar Younis as mentor — a coaching pair with a long history of working with spinners, which is a good place for a young left-arm spinner to land.

Twelve ODIs, nine T20Is, and a Test cap

Khan sits in Paktia’s second group — the Afghan domestic players rather than the overseas stars — but he arrives with more international cricket behind him than most Silver picks. Twelve one-day internationals, nine Twenty20 internationals and a Test cap is a senior record by any measure, and it was built in Afghanistan’s regional tournaments rather than in franchise leagues abroad.

His domestic cricket has taken him around the country: Kabul Eagles, Amo Region, Band-e-Amir Region, Boost Region, Pamir Legends, Hindukush Strikers, Mis Ainak Knights and Maiwand Defenders. That is the record of a player who has earned his place the long way, region by region, rather than through one breakout tournament.

He was fourteen when the league was first played in 2018, and his name appears in none of the five squads published for that season. The 2026-27 season is his first APL season, and his debut, whenever Paktia hand it to him, will be his first appearance in the tournament.

No APL numbers yet — a debut at twenty-two

Khan has no APL figures yet. He did not play in 2018, and the 2026-27 season has not started, so his numbers will be filled in once the matches are played.

2026-27 figures will be added here once the matches are played.

Control, and a third spin option

Paktia’s spin attack is built on wrist spin — Hasaranga’s leg spin and Noor Ahmad’s chinaman — and Khan gives Gurbaz the third option: a finger-spinner who bowls at a different pace, attacks the stumps, and does not give a batter the same ball twice in a row.

In a league where the middle overs decide most games, a left-arm spinner who has already played international cricket is not a gamble. He is the kind of Silver pick that looks like a Gold pick by the end of a tournament.

A new club, a blank record

The format is a double round-robin: five teams, eight league matches each, two against every opponent, and the top four go through to the playoffs. A win is worth two points, and one side goes home after the league stage. Nothing is on the board yet — every team starts on zero, and the first points come after Match 1 on 27 December 2026, when the first ball is bowled at 5:30 PM Afghanistan time (5:00 PM Dubai time) in the UAE. The season ends with the final on Wednesday 20 January 2027.

Paktia are a new club for 2026-27, not a continuation of the 2018 Paktia Panthers. The captaincy itself changed hands late — Rahmat Shah was first named Paktia captain on 25 October 2026, before the swap that sent Gurbaz to Paktia and Rahmat Shah to Nangarhar Cosmic. The APL T20 season starts on 27 December 2026.