Is Cricket Now On Safe Ground In Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan?

While the turmoil in their country has shaken the world, former cricketers and coaches of Afghanistan are hopeful that cricket is still on a safe wicket there.

- Gaurav Gupta

Mumbai: “Cricket was registered with the Afghanistan sports committee during the time when Taliban was ruling Afghanistan (from 1996 to 2001). With the Taliban being there, things will be better from the Afghanistan Cricket Board leadership point of view. For the last two years, the chairman of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB, Farhan Yousufzai) was running the ACB from London. He was not coming to the office and appointed people with poor experience in administration. For the last two-three years, there was no proper domestic cricket in Afghanistan. The domestic cricket structure was in shambles. Cricket will only go up in Afghanistan now,” former Afghanistan cricketer Khaliqdad Noori told TOI from Kabul on Wednesday.