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AT News KABUL: A team of Afghan climbers have scaled the Paghman Mountain before reaching a summit in Shakardara during a one-day expedition, covering five kilometers distance in central Kabul province. The Afghanistan Climbing and Mountaineering Federation while offering felicitations to these young mountaineers said efforts were on to further …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: Iran eased past Afghanistan 16-1 at the CAFA U19 Girl’s Futsal Championship 2020 on Saturday, Tehran Times reported. Roghayeh Sume’eh scored seven goals for Iran and Maral Torkman and Fahimeh Arzani each scored three goals. Ziba Afroogh had a brace and Nasrin Ghomi also scored one …

AT News KABUL: Afghanistan to host Ireland for a T20 series at the Greater Noida Ground in Uttar Pradesh, India. A statement issued by Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACC) said that Afghanistan National Team will play a three-T20I series against Ireland from 6th to 10th March at the Greater Noida Ground …

AT News Report KABUL: Afghanistan U19 cricket team has beaten India’s U19 by 3 wickets in the third ODI to stay alive in the five-match series in Lucknow, India. Having won the toss, Afghanistan opted to field first. India U19 were all out for 152 in 49 overs setting a …

AT News Report KABUL: Afghan Cricket Star Rashid Khan Arman has been appointed as Afghanistan National Cricket Team Captain in all three formats, and has replaced Gulbadin Naib, who had been under pressure by critics after no win in all nine matches of the Cricket World Cup in England. The …

AT News Report KABUL: Mohammad Shahzad, the Afghanistan opener, has been ruled out of ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019, with wicket-keeper batsman Ikram Ali Khil being called up as a replacement. Since the 2015 World Cup, Shahzad has been Afghanistan’s second highest run-scorer in one-day internationals with 1843 runs …

Afghanistan stars Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan have lashed out at Afghanistan selection committee after their surprising decision to sack Asghar Afghan as captain of the team. With less than two months remaining before Afghanistan play just their second World Cup, the selectors dropped a major bombshell by sacking the …

AT News Report KABUL: Dozens of young athletes set offa running competition on the occasion of the New Year and support peace process in the northern province of Kunduz. Abdul QayyoumRahimi, head of provincial sports department said on Wednesdaycontents in other sports fields would be also launched there during different …

AT Monitoring Desk KABUL: FIFA, world football’s governing body, has extended the provisional ban of Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) president Keramuudin Karim by a further 90 days. Karim was originally given a 90-day ban in December when allegations emerged of sexual and physical abuse by male from the AFF towards members …

AT News Report KABUL: Afghanistan’s proposed white-ball tour of Zimbabwe, scheduled to be held next month, has been cancelled after the two boards couldn’t arrive at a consensus with regards to broadcasting, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) announced on Monday (March 11). Afghanistan were expected to play a series of five One …