Mumbai: While turmoil in their country has shaken the world, the former Cricketers and Afghan coach hopes that cricket is still on a safe goal there.
“Cricket was registered with the Afghan Sports Committee during the Taliban ruled Afghanistan (from 1996 to 2001).
With the Taliban there, everything would be better than the point of view of the Afghan cricket board leadership.
Over the past two years, Chairman of the Afghan Cricket Agency (ACB, Farhan YouTSUFZAI) run ACB from London.
He did not come to the office, and appointed people with a bad cricket experience in the administration.
For the past two-three years, there was no right domestic cricket in Afghanistan.
The structure of domestic cricket was a mess.
Cricket will only Rise in Afghanistan now, “said former Cricketer Afghanistan Khaliqdad Noori told toi from Kabul on Wednesday.
While the former British Batsman Kevin Pietersen said that the Afghan star Leggie Rashid Khan, currently in England playing ‘one hundred,’ worrying for his family back home, Noori assured that things were not as bad as they saw at this time.
“People were afraid of the Taliban, and even I was afraid when they entered Kabul.
I asked my family to pack our luggage and leave, but there was peace here now.
After being in my house for a day, I decided to get out and roam On the streets without fear.
Their warrior told my friends that they are now bored with the war, which has been going on for 21 years.
They want peace, and I hope and believe that they will keep their promises, “said Noori.
“I sent Samiulah Shinwari’s message, Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Prophet and Rashid Khan (all members of the Afghan Cricket Team at this time).
There are no families in danger.
I was in Kabul several times and I was told that the Taliban loved Cricket and Cricketers,” said Umesh Patwal, who was a coach of Batting Afghanistan from 2010 to 2018.
ICC associated with the Afghan Cricket Board (ACB) and monitored the development in Kabul.