(Reuters) -Afghanistan earned a first-ever One Day International victory over a depleted South Africa when they romped to a comfortable six-wicket triumph in the first game of the three-match series in Sharjah on Wednesday.

Afghanistan carved out six-wicket victory over inexperienced South Africa in the first one-day international of their three-match series.

Brief scores in the first One-Day International between Afghanistan and South Africa in Sharjah on Wednesday: South Africa 106 all out in 33.3 overs (Wiaan Mulder 52; Fazalhaq Farooqi 4-35, AM Ghazanfar 3-20) v Afghanistan 107-4 in 26 overs (Gulbadin Naib 34 not out,

South Africa also picked aggressive T20 batter Tristan Stubbs at No. who is playing only his second ODI and had an impressive year in the shortest format of the game. Afghanistan is without injured batter Ibrahim Zadran and ace spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman in its first-ever bilateral ODI series against South Africa.