Afghanistan: The Taliban and the Women’s Cricket Team – Politics

Women and cricket – inconceivable for the Taliban. But without a women’s team, the men are not even allowed to compete internationally. So they exist, but nobody knows about them. A meeting with women who only want one thing: to play.

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Tomas Avenarius, Kabul

The Chaman-e-Husuri is called grass field, but there is nothing there but sand, dust, stones. Some guys kick a ball back and forth, others try to play cricket, a couple of blows into space. Boredom, pastime. A drug addict crouches by the wall at the edge of the huge square, which was overgrown with lawn a few years ago, begs and rummages in the garbage. On the opposite side, the golden dome of a mosque shimmers in the evening sun, while the transmission masts and antennas of TV stations dig into the sky on a hill. Kabul at dusk.

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