Featuring 21 players, the Afghanistan Women’s XI had their first cricket face-off in Melbourne, with hopes of opening up ...

After being evacuated from Afghanistan to Australia in 2021, these women have just played their first cricket match as a team — ever.

The first match by the Afghan women’s cricket team is placing the Taliban under additional diplomatic pressure.

"We play for Afghanistan, it means a lot for Afghan women because with this, they can and we can hope," Sapan told Cricket ...

More than three years after fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power, a women's team of refugee cricketers will play ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - More than three years after fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power, a women's team of refugee cricketers ... remembers the players showing off their new cricket bats ...

The Afghanistan women's cricket team, composed of refugees who fled Afghanistan and now reside in Australia, will take to the field for a T20 match against the Cricket Without Borders XI at Junction ...

The cricket team members, who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, have been living in Canberra and Melbourne since arriving in Australia. The match will be played ahead of the opening day ...

“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 ...