The year was 1999. India were playing Pakistan. A right-handed batsman with an aggressive intent, little footwork but tremendous hand eye co-ordination and a sheer will to dominate even the best of bowlers had made his entrance into international cricket. 17 years down the line he has left a legacy behind and redefined opening the batting […] READ MORE
Tag: Afghanistan Cricket
Afghanistan Cricket Success Deserves Plentiful Rewards
Afghanistan Cricket Success Deserves Plentiful Rewards The rise of Afghan cricket is one of the most incredible sporting stories in recent memory. Since joining the ICC only fifteen years ago, their meteoric rise to One Day International status and multiple World Cup qualifications reached its latest denouement earlier today when they stunned the red-hot West Indies—who, […] READ MORE
What Cricket can Learn From Argentine Rugby
Argentina’s fantastic showing at the recent Rugby World Cup has been well-documented. “Los Pumas” not only reached the semi-final after a comprehensive victory over Ireland, they got closer to eventual champions New Zealand than all but one team, threatened Australia in the semi-final and made light work of smaller teams alongside whom they would have been ranked […] READ MORE
The Rise of Afghan Cricket
It’s highly unlikely there’s any other team in international sport whose rise has been so dramatic in the last few years than the Afghanistan cricket team. They have just become the first Associate nation in history to beat a Full Member country in a bilateral One Day International series, taking down Zimbabwe, and have repeated […] READ MORE
A Ten Team Cricket World Cup? Thanks but no Thanks
There has recently been much discussion among cricket fans about the International Cricket Council accepting the proposal of reducing the 2019 and 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup to ten teams. This decision has irked some cricket fans to great lengths for valid reasons. As soon as the decision was known an online petition against it […] READ MORE
The Curious Case of Shane Watson
After being left out of Australia's World Cup side to play Afghanistan, Shane Watson's ODI future looks increasingly bleak. READ MORE
Afghanistan World Cup Heroes
When Scotland were 144-8, Afghanistan looked like they would stroll to victory. When Scotland’s tail crept to 210, and Afghanistan crumbled to 97-7, the game had swung definitively in the other direction, or so it seemed. When Dawlat Zadran fell after a determined nine off 25 balls, Scotland were two wickets away from their first […] READ MORE
Top Five Cricket World Cup Shocks
The Cricket World Cup may feature no associate nations in 2019, which would take away one of the greatest parts of the tournament - the shock factor. READ MORE
Afghanistan’s World Cup: A Fight for Survival and Greatness
Afghanistan became an affiliate member of the ICC in 2001, the same year America started their aerial bombing campaigns. The fourteen years of conflict which followed devastated Afghanistan, providing the backdrop for one of the most enthralling cricketing journeys of the century: the rise of the Afghan national side. Their rise through the World Cricket […] READ MORE
