Forced out by Taliban, Afghan refugee women’s cricket team to tour England next month

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• Photo/ECB Afghanistan’s displaced women cricketers will tour England next month in a major step in their effort to rebuild their cricket careers after the return of the Taliban to power forced them out of sports and public life.The Afghanistan Refugee Team will include players who were previously contracted with the Afghanistan Cricket Board and later left the country after being “systematically excluded from sport and public life” by the Taliban
• according to the England and Wales Cricket Board.The tour will begin on June 22 and will feature Twenty20 matches
• training sessions and a chance for the players to attend the Women’s T20 World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground on July 5.The ECB said the tour “carries significant cultural and sporting importance.”“This tour represents not only an opportunity for them to compete as a team,” the ECB said
• “but a moment for cricket in this country to stand for inclusion...