The 10th edition of the Asia cup started today in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, with the hosts playing Pakistan. It was a brilliant game as well: Shoaib Akhtar announcing his comeback (again) with a hostile spell, Shahid Afridi playing his most responsible knock, yet still hit seven sixes, Afridi smashing sixes and then doing his best impression of Cristiano Ronaldo (diving like a girl, although boom boom did have cramp) and then…
Year: 2010
Kabul wrap up convincing win over Paktia in domestic finals
Kabul wrapped up a convincing win over Paktia in the finals of the Etisalat Afghanistan Domestic fifty-over tournament which is the country’s main inter-provincial tournament. This was the first ever domestic 50 over tournament and the capital province Kabul reigned as they emerged as the Afghanistan domestic 50 over champions. Kabul won the toss and…
Kabul and Paktia go through to the final
Kabul and Paktia prevailed in their semi-finals to reach the final of the inter-provincal 50-overs domestic tournament. The semi-final matches were contrasting affairs: one an easy victory; the other a hard-fought win. The easy win was for Kabul, who thrashed Panjshir. Kabul batted first and put up a competitive score of 225/8 in their 50-overs.…
Paktia qualify for semi-finals
In group D, the final group of the inter-provincal 50-over competition, Paktia saw off their opponents to become the final team to make the semi-finals. First of all, Nuristan beat Zabul by 19 runs in a close game. After Nuristan posted 244 all out in 40.3 overs, Zabul responded quickly before a spate of quick wickets…
Afghanistan team strike averted
A crisis meeting between the Afghanistan Cricket Board and national team players has agreed to establish a four-member group of “impartial” persons to find and present a solution to several of the players’ grievances in “three or four days time” to the ACB chairman, Hazrat Omer Zakhailwal. As reported on Tuesday, the Afghanistan players had quit…
Video highlights of domestic cricket
As Shamshad TV in Afghanistan have been broadcasting the matches, we have video highlights for you. The first video contains the Laghman and Paktika match. Laghman (light blue) won this match by 39 runs. Logar vs Jozjan features in the next video. Logar (red) came out easy winners in this game – by a huge 10 wickets.…
Kabul through to the semi-finals
In group C of the inter-provincal domestic competition, Kabul won its way through to the semi-finals. The first match in this group featured the strong Logar and the minnows Jowzjan. Logar, from the east of the country, unsurprisingly annihilated Jowzjan. Such was their margin of victory (10 wickets and 242 balls to spare), Logar were literally guaranteed a…
Rashid Latif named as Afghanistan batting coach
Rashid Latif, the former Pakistan captain, batsman and wicket-keeper, has been appointed by the Afghanistan cricket board as the national team batting coach. He will finalise the agreement when he travels to Kabul on the 15th June. Of course, Kabir Khan, who has done an excellent job, will stay as the head coach. The batting was shown…