Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition ...

Their return to compete after the Taliban banned all sports for women and girls is a true victory for human rights.

The ACB considers this a great loss for Afghanistan's sports community, its athletes, and the cricketing family," the ACB said in a statement, mourning the deaths of the players and several others.

Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.Noori had defied family pressure to represent Afghanistan professionally by playing for the country's ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Afghanistan Cricket Board has withdrawn its national team from next month’s Twenty20 tri-series in Pakistan after it said three local cricketers were killed in Pakistan military ...

Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan Live Score, 3rd T20I: Welcome to the live coverage of the third T20I between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan at the Harare Sports Club on Sunday, November 2, 2025. Afghanistan sealed ...

Four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban's takeover, a number ...

The Afghans had won the opener by 53 runs. Follow the live cricket scores and ball-by-ball commentary from the ZIM vs AFG ...

Though a middle-overs stutter, primarily engineered by Sikandar Raza’s excellent 3 for 20, briefly pegged them back, ...

Spinner Rashid Khan and batter Ibrahim Zadran starred as Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by seven wickets on Friday to clinch a ...

Noori, now 22, decided to flee the country where the United Nations say authorities have implemented a “gender apartheid”. She has since begun playing for a team of Afghan refugee women, who last ...