The Afghanistan Women's XI played their first match after an evacuation likened to "a Jason Bourne movie", led by three women on the other side of the world.

It would be cliched to say that Mandeep Singh’s journey and subsequent association with the Cricket Afghanistan establishment ...

The Afghan Women’s Team will ... to help those in cricket who have been displaced due to conflict. The Afghan Women’s Team were forced into exile from their native Afghanistan after a ...

Afghanistan fast bowler Shapoor Zadran has announced his retirement from international cricket. The tall left-arm quick played 44 ODIs and 36 T20Is since his debut in 2009, and went on to take 80 ...

LONDON: Afghanistan's women cricketers will be the first beneficiaries of a new global refugee fund announced on Friday by the London-based Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Hundreds of female ...

Benafsha Hasmiri has played cricket for Afghanistan, but it wasn’t an official match, and it wasn’t staged in the country where she is from. Instead, a team made up of exiles like her turned ...

While Afghanistan has an established men's team and enjoys funding from the International Cricket Council , the women are unfunded and unsanctioned by the global body despite pleas for support ...

Melbourne (AFP) – Afghanistan's women cricketers ... have lobbied the governing International Cricket Council in the hopes of forming a refugee team with some kind of official status.

ICC regulations state full membership is conditional upon having women's cricket teams and pathway structures in place. However, Afghanistan's men's team has been allowed to participate in ICC ...