Afghanistan National Cricket Team’s opening batsman Najeeb Tarakai died on Tuesday following injuries he got in a traffic accident last week.  

Tarakai was 29 years old. 

“ACB and Afghanistan Cricket Loving Nation mourns the heart breaking and grievous loss of its aggressive opening batsman and a very fine human being Najeeb Tarakai who lost his life to tragic traffic accident leaving us all shocked!,” Afghanistan’s Cricket Board (ACB) announced on social media Tuesday. 

Tarakai was injured in a car accident on October 2 on the Jalalabad city. 

Tarakai played in one T20I and 12 ODIs for Afghanistan’s team. 

He averaged a healthy 47.20 in first-class cricket, including a career-high 200 and had six centuries to his name.