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Afghanistan Appoint Pakistan Legend As Mentor For Champions Trophy 2025

January 8, 2025 admin

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Wednesday appointed former Pakistan cricketer Younis Khan as the mentor for the Afghan national team for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025, starting on February 19. According to a release from ACB, the former cricketer will accompany Afghanistan during their conditioning and preparation camp in Pakistan, offering his mentorship…

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ECB Rejects Call For Boycott Of Afghanistan Champions Trophy Game: Report

January 7, 2025 admin

The England and Wales Cricket Board has reportedly rejected calls to boycott England’s match against Afghanistan in the upcoming Champions Trophy over the treatment of women in a Taliban-ruled country. England are scheduled to face Afghanistan on February 26 in the Champions Trophy but more than 160 politicians have written a letter to…

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Rashid Khan Picks Up 11 Wickets, Carries Afghanistan To Maiden Test Series Win vs Zimbabwe

January 6, 2025 admin

Star leg spinner Rashid Khan took his seventh wicket of the innings as Afghanistan speedily wrapped up a 72-run victory over Zimbabwe on Monday to win the two-Test series. Zimbabwe were 205-8 overnight with captain Craig Ervine unbeaten on 53 and needing 73 more runs to win the Test at Queens Sports Club…

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Rashid Khan Reflects On Post-Surgery Comeback After Guiding Afghanistan To First-Ever Test Series Win

January 6, 2025 admin

Rashid Khan marked his triumphant return to Test cricket with a “Player of the Match” performance, guiding Afghanistan to a 72-run victory over Zimbabwe in the second and final Test at Queens Sports Club on Monday. The leg-spinner’s exceptional bowling figures, 4/94 in the first innings and 7/66 in the second played a…

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War Or Peace: What Will Become Of Middle East In 2025?

December 31, 2024 admin

Picture this: the current interim government in Syria, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), gives way to an elected government. Under this fledgling democratic setup, a phoenix-like Syria rises from the ashes of its long, bloody civil war. Millions of Syrian refugees and internally displaced people are returning home joyously; investors are trickling in; broken…

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Hashmatullah Shahidi, Brian Bennett Star As Afghanistan Draw Zimbabwe Test

December 30, 2024 admin

Afghanistan veteran Hashmatullah Shahidi and Zimbabwe rookie Brian Bennett starred as the first Test was drawn after a rain-shortened final day in Bulawayo on Monday. Shahidi claimed an Afghan record 246 runs at the end of a marathon innings while spinner Bennett took five wickets. Zimbabwe made 586 and 142-4 to lead Afghanistan by…

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Opinion: A Murky Rivalry Is Brewing In India's Neighbourhood

December 30, 2024 admin

The Afghans are understandably furious. After more than two decades of unleashing terror on them from the mujahideen era through the Taliban times, Pakistan decided to bomb Afghan villages on Tuesday, killing some 46 people, including women and children. The villages allegedly sheltered the cadres of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). That’s ironic. The TTP is…

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UNESCO-Listed Musical Instrument ‘Rubab’ Stifled In Afghanistan

December 29, 2024 admin

Herat, Afghanistan: Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has crafted two rubabs a month for decades, and he refuses to set down his tools even as a Taliban crackdown…

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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

December 28, 2024 admin

Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

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Test Records For Zimbabwe And Sean Williams As Afghanistan Toil

December 27, 2024 admin

Sean Williams in action© X (Twitter) Zimbabwe and their veteran batter Sean Williams created Test records on Friday against Afghanistan, who trailed by 491 runs after the second day of the first Test in Bulawayo. Resuming on 363 for four, the home side were all out for 586 at Queens Sports Club in the southern…

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