The Afghanistan Cricket Board made a significant stride in November 2020 when it handed 25 promising women cricketers professional contracts.

Afghanistan’s women’s cricket team reunited after three years in exile due to the Taliban’s takeover and played a charity match in Melbourne. Team captain Nahida Sapan hopes the match will spark a movement for change.

The exiled Afghanistan womens cricket team is set to face Cricket Without Borders XI in Melbourne at the Junction Oval on Thursday January 30; Afghanistans coach has said the historic fixture is more

Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the side reunites after more than three years for an exhibition game in Australia on Thursday.

Thursday's fixture against Cricket Without Borders is their first as a team, what will that team look like in future? | ESPN.com

Afghanistan women's cricket team will take the field in an exhibition match in Australia, but their cricketing plight remains in a stalemate.

Afghanistan female cricketers said Thursday's exhibition match in Australia will be a "historic moment" and that the team will "represent millions of women" back home denied their rights. The Afghan team reunites after more than three years for an exhibition game against a Cricket Without Borders XI at Melbourne’s Junction Oval.

A Twenty20 cricket contest featuring a women’s team made up of refugees from Afghanistan who now live in Australia may “only” be an exhibition game, but it could be the beginning of something much more.