Noor Ali Zadran is a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pacer, currently a part of the Afghan cricket team. He cites Ricky Ponting as his inspiration and cricketing hero. Ali made his international debut for the Afghnistan U-17 team against UAE in 2004. Ali made his Twenty20 debut for Afghanistan in the 2007 ACC Twenty20 Cup against Oman.
Ali was a part of the rapidly rising Afghan team from 2008 to 2009 when it was promoted to Division Two allowing them to participate in the 2009 World Cup qualifiers. He made his List A debut in the qualifiers against Denmark. In the Super Eights, he scored 122 against Canada. Later the same year, he made his ODI debut for Afghanistan against Scotland and scored 45 runs in his first match.
