Nabi, 37, will proceed as a participant however mentioned he and the selectors weren’t “on the identical web page”.
“From the final one yr, our crew preparation was to not a stage {that a} captain would need it or wanted for an enormous event,” he mentioned in a press release on Twitter.
“Furthermore, in among the final excursions, the crew supervisor, choice committee and I weren’t on the identical web page which had implications on the crew steadiness.
“Due to this fact, with due respect, efficient instantly, I announce to step down as a captain and can proceed to play for my nation when the administration and crew want me.”
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Afghanistan, coached by former England batsman Jonathan Trott, completed the Tremendous 12 stage in Australia and not using a win.
They’d two washouts and two losses to sit down backside of the six-team desk in Group 1.
Nabi, a middle-order batsman and off-spinner, has performed 104 T20 matches for Afghanistan since his debut in 2010.
Afghanistan’s newest defeat got here after they fell 4 runs quick of their chase of 168 regardless of an unbeaten 48 by Rashid Khan, who got here to bat at quantity eight.
“It confirmed the ability and expertise of the gamers that we’ve received, but in addition the scenario consciousness that we lack in components and we noticed that towards Sri Lanka, we’ve seen it once more tonight,” Trott instructed reporters earlier than Nabi’s announcement.
On being requested on Rashid’s promotion up the order, Trott mentioned, “I believe the opposite batsmen within the aspect begin taking extra duty for his or her innings and with the duty that they’re charged with.
“There are occasions when the gamers want to face up and settle for the stress that comes with enjoying worldwide cricket and you have to carry out higher.” The crew has come on leaps and bounds with gamers initially studying the sport in refugee camps in Pakistan after fleeing the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation.
“I have a look at it and I realised how lucky and privileged I used to be rising up in a rustic the place sport is so properly catered for and inspired and is a lifestyle actually,” mentioned Trott, who took up the Afghanistan job in July.
“So to see these guys and listen to their tales about their background of rising up and the issues that they’ve needed to overcome, areas they’ve come from and get to be right here in Adelaide enjoying beneath the intense lights in entrance of over 18,000 individuals and a worldwide viewers…
“They might be higher almost about construction however so far as gamers, I don’t have a problem with any of them.”
