Sept. 25, 2014, 4:30 a.m.

The rising stocks of Bathurst cricketer Jono Dean will take another twist tomorrow and Sunday as the ACT Comets play their part in a remarkable cricketing story.

READY TO GO: Jono Dean will captain the ACT Comets tomorrow when they take on World Cup-bound Afghanistan in the first of two one-dayers in Canberra. 092414jono

THE rising stocks of Bathurst cricketer Jono Dean will take another twist tomorrow and Sunday as the ACT Comets play their part in a remarkable cricketing story.

Dean has been selected to captain the Comets as they play two matches against the Afghanistan one-day side at Manuka Oval.

It will be the first major hit-out of the 2014-15 season for big-hitting right-hander Dean, while his brother Blake has also been selected in the side.

The two Rugby Union juniors will meet a side whose journey just to get to this point is amazing in itself.

Considered a fringe cricket nation for a long time due to the fact that it shares a border with Pakistan, it would seem that the chances of the Afghani side achieving any sort of success would be remote.

With the volume of violence and internal issues that have dogged the region for years, it is surprising that they even have a cricket side.

Yet they have climbed from the bottom of the cricketing ladder when they formed in 2001 in 2008 they were still in division five of the World Cricket League all the way to next years World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand.

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Afghanistan awaits Dean