Afghanistan's rising spin-bowling talent, Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar, has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 and ...

WCA CEO suggests systematic ways to support the Afghan women’s cricket team as they play their first cricket match in three ...

In 2020, 25 players were given professional contracts by the Afghanistan Cricket Board but after the Taliban returned and ...

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.

Female cricketers from Afghanistan are to become the first recipients of support from a Global Refugee Cricket Fund.

In 2020, 25 female players were given professional contracts by the Afghanistan Cricket Board. When the Taliban returned to power the following year, more than 20 members of the Afghanistan women ...

The Afghanistan Cricket Board made a significant stride in November 2020 when it handed 25 promising women cricketers professional contracts. But before the fledgling squad had a chance to play ...

Female participation in sport has effectively been outlawed since the Taliban's return to power in 2021, a move that puts the Afghanistan Cricket Board in direct contravention of the rules of the ...

Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the ...

But the game is set to go ahead even though the Taliban's move to effectively ban female participation puts the Afghanistan Cricket Board at odds with International Cricket Council rules.

Of the 25 Afghan women contracted by the country's cricket board in 2020, most resettled in Australia with humanitarian visas, starting new lives in Melbourne and other cities. While Afghanistan has ...