Afganistan

Cricket has been performed in Afghanistan because the mid-19th century, however it became only within the early twenty first century that the national group began to enjoy achievement. The Afghanistan Cricket Board was fashioned in 1995 and have become an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001[12] and a member of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in 2003.[13] After nearly a decade of gambling international cricket, on 22 June 2017, at an ICC assembly in London, full ICC Membership (and therefore Test status) turned into granted to Afghanistan. Alongside Ireland, this took the range of Test cricket playing nations to 12. It is the first usa to ever acquire Full Member status after preserving Affiliate Membership of the ICC.[14][15]

The team is ranked ninth in Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket as of January 2021,[16] and holds the sector report for the very best ever T20I score, with their score of 278/three towards Ireland at Dehradun on 23 February 2019.

In August 2021, issues and doubts were raised over the participation of the Afghanistan national cricket crew inside the future worldwide suits ever given that Afghanistan became introduced beneath the manage of the Taliban.[17][18] Concerns were raised over the safety of Afghan national cricketers and their families who had been still in Afghanistan in the course of the Taliban takeover on 15 August 2021.[19] As of 31 August 2021, 3 of the Afghanistan ladies's national cricket team had evacuated to Canada, even as the others had been terrified of how they, as ladies, might be handled via the Taliban.[20]

Taliban spokespersons stated that the Taliban would not disrupt the guys's cricket group's participation in worldwide fits and they might allow Afghanistan to play its first ever bilateral series towards Pakistan in Sri Lanka which scheduled to begin in September 2021.[21][22]

Despite the political turmoil, Afghanistan cricket crew's media supervisor Hikmat Hassan showed that Afghanistan might participate within the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[23]