LAHORE (Dunya News) - The Afghanistan cricket team has arrived in Lahore for the ICC Champions Trophy. Under tight security, ...

Pakistan Shaheens will face Afghanistan in the first warm-up match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Lahore on Friday. Here ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Afghanistan are also without Mujeeb Ur Rahman at the Champions Trophy, though he played the entire SA20 for Paarl Royals ...

She believes that if Brendon McCullum’s side were to boycott their fixture against Afghanistan – as has been urged by 160 parliamentarians in a letter to the England and Wales Cricket Board in ...

The team was formed in 2020 by the Afghanistan Cricket Board, prompted by ICC rules that stipulate countries must have men's and women's sides. But when the Taliban reclaimed power, they ...

That puts the Afghanistan cricket board at odds with ICC rules, though the men's team are allowed to compete. ECB chairman Richard Thompson described the situation in Afghanistan as "gender ...