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Afghanistan women’s cricket team reunites for first match in three years after Taliban ban
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 Afghanistan ...
Grandstanding? What happened to the calls to boycott Afghanistan matches at Champions Trophy?
The only entity that could really punish Afghanistan is the ICC itself, and the fact that it has not penalised the nation in ...
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Afghanistan Women’s Cricket Team To Take Field With Pride, But Thorny Issue Remains In A Stalemate
ForbesThe Afghanistan Women’s Cricket Saga Continues To Haunt The SportBy Tristan Lavalette Amiri has had to rebuild her life in much different surroundings. More than three years have passed ...
Afghanistan cricket: Women's historic match 'more important than ever before,' say coaches
The exiled Afghanistan womens cricket team is set to face Cricket Without Borders XI in Melbourne at the Junction Oval on January 30; Afghanistans coach has said the historic fixture is more important ...
The Afghan women's team who will not be silenced
The Afghanistan Women's XI played their first match after an evacuation likened to "a Jason Bourne movie", led by three women ...
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The Afghanistan Women’s Cricket Saga Continues To Haunt The Sport
the biggest in international cricket this year. The Afghanistan women's situation has been the sport's thorniest issue, even surpassing the never-ending India-Pakistan warring, and continues to ...
What is the background to calls for Afghanistan cricket boycott?
With England scheduled to play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy on 26 February, BBC Sport looks at the background of the ...
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Empowering Afghan Women's Cricket Amidst Adversity
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) supports Afghan women cricketers exiled by Taliban governance through a new refugee fund.
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Amnesty calls for support of Afghanistan women’s Cricket Team
Amnesty International has called on the cricket world to support the Afghanistan Women’s National Cricket Team in playing at higher levels. The organization welcomed the return of the Afghanistan ...
England will not boycott Afghanistan match at cricket’s Champions Trophy, says ECB chair
England will play their Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan later this month, England's cricket board (ECB) said on ...
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Afghanistan soccer is on the rise as cricket faces boycott threats
SEOUL -- If proposed boycotts against the Afghanistan men's cricket team in protest of the Taliban's treatment of women go ahead, then soccer is ready to step in to give the nation's sporting fans ...
Three years after fleeing Taliban rule, Afghanistan women's cricket team reunites for match
Afghanistan’s women’s cricket team reunited after three years in exile due to the Taliban’s takeover and played a charity match in Melbourne. Team captain Nahida Sapan hopes the match will spark a ...