KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans in their thousands took to the streets to celebrate their men's national cricket team reaching the Twenty20 World Cup semifinals for the first time on Tuesday.

Tooba Khan's life changed forever when Afghanistan fell back into the hands of the Taliban in 2021. The brutal regime effectively outlawed sport for women, with death as the penalty. Cricket was Ms ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...

SYDNEY — A group of Afghan women’s cricketers has again approached the sport’s international governing body asking for backing to reform as a refugee team based in Australia. The women sent a letter ...

For Afghanistan's women cricketers, their first competitive match since escaping oppression in their home country represents ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - A group of British lawmakers urged England to boycott their Champions Trophy match against Afghanistan next month, saying the country's cricket board (ECB) needed to take a stand ...

The organization called for Afghanistan’s suspension until women and girls are granted the right to participate in education and sports. Human Rights Watch has demanded that the ICC revoke Afghanistan ...

England's men's cricket team is set to face Afghanistan on Feb. 26 in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy group stage. However, women's rights activists have called for England to ...