Ahmad Habibzi pauses to pray at the top of the halfpipe hill on a mountain at the Yabuli Ski Resort in northeastern China.

A few miles from the Melbourne Cricket Ground where Australia and England started the women's Ashes test yesterday, a group ...

The Afghanistan womens cricket team represented their country for the first time in three years at the Junction Oval in Melbourne, playing against Cricket Without Borders; the cricketers said they hav ...

Afghanistan have been allowed to retain ICC membership, despite not fulfilling the requirement to commit to developing women's cricket. Australia and other countries refuse to play the Afghanistan men ...

Melbourne (AFP) – Afghanistan's women cricketers on Thursday played their first game since fleeing the Taliban three years ago, a charity match in Australia that captain Nahida Sapan said she ...

AFP The players wore blue shirts designed ... ball and a tulip, Afghanistan’s national flower. But it was not a national uniform and did not feature Afghanistan’s flag or its colours.

More than three years after fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power, a women's team of refugee cricketers will play an exhibition match in Melbourne on Thursday, hoping it will be a ...

Thursday's fixture against Cricket Without Borders is their first as a team, what will that team look like in future? | ESPN.com ...

Afghanistan's national flower. The shirt did not feature the country's flag or its colours. In the match, Afghanistan were pipped by the CWOB side with just four balls left after scoring 103 runs ...

Firooza Amiri and Nahida Sapan pose in their playing shirts ahead of the Afghanistan ... "They won't play underneath the ACB or the Afghanistan flag as a side. "But what we're trying to navigate ...