Ariana: The Afghanistan national wheelchair basketball team were runners up in the China Para Asian Games quota tournament on Saturday with four wins and one loss. The team lost to Kuwait in its final match on Saturday 56-58 to scoop second place out of six participating teams. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Gujarat Titans’ Rashid Khan smashed a quickfire and unbeaten 32-ball 79 to register the highest-ever score by a No. 8 batter in the history of Indian Premier League (IPL) on Friday. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama: Bangladesh will play a two-part multi-format series against Afghanistan after both boards agreed to host the final Test before Eid al Adha. The white ball series will also be played before the Eid holiday. The development has been verified by Jalal Yunus, chairman of the operations committee for the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). Even
Ariana: Sri Lanka Cricket have announced the dates of a three-match ODI series at home against Afghanistan. The hosts will up their preparations for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier matches in Zimbabwe in June and July by playing Afghanistan in a three-match ODI series. Afghanistan will arrive in Sri Lanka on May 29
8am: Local sources told Hasht-e Subh that officials of the Taliban’s virtue and vice department in Bamiyan on Sunday, 30 April, blocked the stadium after deeming the futsal players’ uniforms as inappropriate. One of the witnesses, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the officials insulted and humiliated the athletes with “aggressiveness and profanity” about
Ariana: Abdullah Al Mutairi, from Kuwait, has been appointed as the new national football team head coach, after Anoush Dastgir was sacked due to the team’s poor performance. The Kuwaiti, will be tasked with finding new talent among local players and Afghans playing for foreign teams in order to form his national team. Click here
Tolo News: Paralympian Afghan- American swimmer Abbas Karimi won the gold medal for the 50m butterfly and a silver medal in the 50m backstroke at an international competition held in the US, the Citi Para Swimming World Series USA 2023. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: The Afghan Judo Federation organised a refereeing seminar at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul as part of developing judo in the nation, insidethegames. Juan Carlos Barcos and Paul Camacho Perez, experts from the International Judo Federation, were present to help with the seminar, which was the first of its kind in Afghanistan. Click here
Tolo News: Afghanistan Under-19 Cricket Team defeated Sri Lanka in a two-match One Day International series in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, on Sunday. Cricket Board officials said that Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets. Earlier, Afghanistan’s Under-19 Cricket Team also played three T20I matches against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Click here to
Khaama: Afghanistan star Rashid Khan regained the No.1 T20I bowling position in the most recent ICC rankings following his three wickets at less than a run a ball in Afghanistan’s historic 2-1 series win over Pakistan in Sharjah this week. Rashid has displaced Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga to grab the top rank. Rashid took one