Cricket-MCC announces fund for Afghan women's refugee team

FILE PHOTO: Cricket - England v India - Second One Day International - Lord’s Cricket Ground, London, Britain - July 14, 2018 General view of the Marylebone Cricket Club logo Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Afghanistan's exiled women cricketers will be the first beneficiaries of a new refugee fund started by the Marylebone Cricket Club, the MCC said on Friday.

Hundreds of athletes fled Afghanistan after the Taliban reclaimed power in 2021 and effected sweeping restrictions on women in the country.