Cricket-Taliban to allow men's cricket; status of smaller women's programmes unclear


  • Cricket
  • Friday, 20 Aug 2021

FILE PHOTO: Afghan men play cricket on a field covered in snow on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan December 16, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail/File Photo

(Reuters) - The Taliban have said they will not interfere with the Afghan men's national cricket team, the country's biggest sporting success of recent years, or stop the expansion of the flagship Twenty20 league, an Afghan cricket official said.

The fate of much more modest women's cricket programmes, however, remains unclear.

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