Afghanistan cricket team in ‘high spirits’ after return to training, says ACB CEO

Afghanistan national cricket team was feeling ‘spirited’ subsequent to continuing preparing in the capital this week, only days after the Taliban held onto control of the country, the top of the cricket board said Friday.

Hamid Shinwari said the team was indeed planning for their one-day series against Pakistan, scheduled to occur in Sri Lanka in about fourteen days.

“The atmosphere in the camp was very spirited. We will send the team to Sri Lanka once the flight operations are resumed and for that, we are in contact with authorities,” Hamid Shinwari told AFP.

Turmoil has broken out at the Kabul air terminal this week as a huge number of Afghans attempt to escape the assailants, who moved through the country to a great extent unopposed by government security powers.

The game was firmly constrained by the Islamic fundamentalist gathering during their first principle of the country during the 1990s, regularly saw by the assailants as an interruption from strict obligations.

Women were totally prohibited from participating. Nonetheless, Shinwari said he saw no dangers to cricket from the development.

“Cricket was not an issue during the Taliban regime before and it will not be an issue now. I don’t remember any incident caused by the Taliban over cricket,” he said.

Hamid Shinwari said he couldn’t comment on the situation with women’s cricket however the circumstance would be more clear in the coming weeks.

Rashid Khan and all-rounder Mohammad Nabi are presently playing The Hundred competition in England. Both wiped the slate clean in their country before the Taliban takeover. In any case, most other national players are in Afghanistan.

Sri Lanka’s cricket board recently said it was all the while expecting to have Afghanistan and Pakistan for the three matches in a vacant stadium at Hambantota. The one-day series begins on September 3.

It was moved to Sri Lanka after stadiums in the United Arab Emirates where Afghanistan plays their home matches were rather than getting ready to have the Indian Premier League.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board additionally reported its Twenty20 alliance, to begin from September 10 in Kabul.

“We are committed to doing well and lifting Afghanistan cricket. We have excellent relations with Pakistan and Indian cricket boards and we are part of the international cricket community,” it said.