“The Afghan men’s cricket team players ... to women in Afghanistan.” Afghan women play cricket in Herat in 2015, when the Taliban were not in power Credit: Getty Images That England ...

They are Nangyal Kharoti, Darwish Rasooli, and Bilal Sami who will travel with the team as reserves. As per ESPN Cricinfo, Hashmatullah Shahidi will be the captain of Afghanistan in the tournament.

The team also has access to top-of-the-line facilities in the UAE, but lack of actual Test match play hobbles their development•Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP/Getty Images "Obviously we've put in good ...

Firooza Amiri and Benafsha Hashimi, who fled the country after the Taliban takeover in 2021, speak to ESPNcricinfo about the complexities of Afghanistan's place in world cricket ...

Meanwhile, the MCC and MCC Foundation have set up the Global Refugee Cricket ... The exiled Afghanistan women's team played their first game at Junction Oval in Melbourne AFP/Getty Images Pitch ...

Don't ban the Afghanistan men's side from playing international cricket ... via Getty Images "I think the frustration has been the lack of conversation around it. And so here's this amazing ...

"Together, we're building not just a team ... who helped found Afghanistan's first women's cricket program almost 20 years ago, said Thursday's match was an "amazing moment".

Afghanistan's women cricketers on Thursday played their first game since fleeing the Taliban three years ago, a charity match ...

Thursday's T20 against Cricket ... Images The ICC are a member-led organisation, bound by the vote of its member boards and, if the boards who support recognising an Afghanistan Women's team ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - More than three years after fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power, a women's team of ... off their new cricket bats and kits. "It was an amazing moment for ...