When she first started playing, Afghan cricketer Roya Samim could not even dream that she would one day represent her country - not because she lacked talent, but because there was no women's team.
While Afghanistan's male cricketers have enjoyed a series of surprise successes on the global stage since the fall of the Taliban, the national women's team was quietly disbanded just a few years after it was formed in 2010, amid fears over safety.
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