About: Cricket in Afghanistan

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Cricket in Afghanistan is the most popular sport in the country, which is represented internationally by the Afghanistan national cricket team. Afghanistan became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 22 June 2017, entitling the national team to participate in official Test matches. Afghanistan has produced a few prominent cricketers over the years, who later went on to become widely popular in world cricket including Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

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  • Cricket in Afghanistan is the most popular sport in the country, which is represented internationally by the Afghanistan national cricket team. Afghanistan became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 22 June 2017, entitling the national team to participate in official Test matches. Afghanistan has produced a few prominent cricketers over the years, who later went on to become widely popular in world cricket including Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman. In August 2021, concerns and doubts were raised over the participation of Afghanistan cricket team in future international matches ever since Afghanistan was brought under the control of the Taliban. Concerns were raised over the safety of Afghan national cricketers and their families who were still in Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover on 15 August 2021. Uncertainties also developed regarding the future of cricket in Afghanistan and reports emerged that Taliban would be expected to dismantle the Afghanistan women's national cricket team due to the Taliban's opposition towards women's rights. However, Taliban revealed that it would not disrupt the men's cricket team's participation in international matches and allowed Afghanistan to play their first ever bilateral series against Pakistan in Sri Lanka which scheduled to start in September 2021. Taliban also ordered the Afghanistan Cricket Board to carry on the activities as usual although the Taliban fighters arrived at the ACB headquarters with guns. Despite the political turmoil, Afghanistan cricket team's media manager Hikmat Hassan confirmed that Afghanistan would participate in the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. (en)
  • Cricket ist in Afghanistan die wichtigste Sportart. Der professionelle Cricket-Sport wird vom Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) organisiert. Die afghanische Nationalmannschaft ist seit dem Jahr 2018 berechtigt Test Cricket zu bestreiten. (de)
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  • The Afghanistan national cricket team at the 2010 ICC WCL Division One in Rotterdam, Netherlands (en)
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  • * Afghanistan Premier League (en)
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  • Afghanistan (en)
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  • cricket (en)
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  • Cricket ist in Afghanistan die wichtigste Sportart. Der professionelle Cricket-Sport wird vom Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) organisiert. Die afghanische Nationalmannschaft ist seit dem Jahr 2018 berechtigt Test Cricket zu bestreiten. (de)
  • Cricket in Afghanistan is the most popular sport in the country, which is represented internationally by the Afghanistan national cricket team. Afghanistan became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 22 June 2017, entitling the national team to participate in official Test matches. Afghanistan has produced a few prominent cricketers over the years, who later went on to become widely popular in world cricket including Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Ur Rahman. (en)
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  • Cricket in Afghanistan (en)
  • Cricket in Afghanistan (de)
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