Key Background. The Afghan cricket team emerged as one of the sport’s biggest feel-good success stories in the past decade. Starting as a team made up of players from refugee camps in Pakistan ...

An Afghanistan Women’s XI will play a Cricket Without Borders XI in the match at Melbourne’s Junction Oval. It will bring together 21 female players who were formerly contracted by the ...

Afghan cricket team is battling to become a fully-fledged international member. Many of its players learned the game while in refugee camps in Pakistan.

Rashid Khan, captain of Afghanistan's T20 cricket team, has voiced concern over the limited number of international fixtures the nationa ...

Afghan girls play cricket on school grounds in Kabul in 2010. At the time, Afghanistan was set to select its first national women's cricket team. But a Taliban official now reportedly says women ...

"He will be deeply missed by the cricket community. We are profoundly saddened by this loss and extend our condolences to his ...

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) responded to CA’s decision on Thursday, describing it as “pathetic” and “an attempt to enter the realm of politics and politicize the sport.” ...

“I remember the first time I saw cricket — only men were playing,” said Afghan. “ Now, I want the next generation of girls to grow up seeing us and believe they can.” Published Apr 16, 2025 ...

Afghan cricket fans in different countries celebrated the historic achievement by posting videos of them doing the national dance, known as Attan. Afghanistan’s feat is a mild surprise.

Afghanistan cricket officials blasted Australia’s decision on Thursday to cancel their men’s one-day international cricket series. Cricket Australia cited recent heavier restrictions on women ...

Afghanistan's own domestic version of the IPL, the "Shpageeza Cricket League" (SCL), a competition named after the Pashto language word for a six, added two more franchises on Thursday and will be ...

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) had 25 contracted women players in 2020 but most now live in Australia in exile, with others settled in Canada and Britain.