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Firoza Amiri and Nahida Sapan, played for the Afghanistan XI in Melbourne in January.

Banned by the Taliban, this is how Afghanistan’s women cricketers got back on world stage

They fled the Taliban four years ago. But with support from Australian cricket powerbrokers, it looks like Afghanistan’s women’s cricketers will get to play as a team in international competitions.

  • Daniel Brettig

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Afghanistan women’s cricketers Friba Hotak (left) and Firooza Afghan.

Firooza burned all of her cricket gear to hide it from the Taliban. Then Australia went into bat for her

It’s been three years since Afghanistan’s women cricketers escaped the Taliban. While determined to stay together, they are frustrated nothing has come of their pleas to play.

  • Daniel Brettig
Australia suffered a shock semi-final loss to South Africa.

‘Hard to take’: Australia’s World Cup dominance ends with shock semi-final elimination

Australia’s pain from missing a first Twenty20 World Cup final in seven tournaments will carry into the home summer, after captain Alyssa Healy revealed the extent of the foot injury that kept her out of the knockout game.

  • Daniel Brettig
Annabel Sutherland iced the game in the final over as Australia beat India at the T20 World Cup.

‘How’s your heart rate’: Four wickets in last over seals Aussie win after injury crisis

Australia’s resilience was on full display as they shrugged off the losses of captain Alyssa Healy and pace bowler Tayla Vlaeminck to take down India in Sharjah and progress unbeaten to the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals

  • Daniel Brettig
Alyssa Healy.

‘Play a shot, Chamari’: Healy’s well-timed chirp in Australia’s opening World Cup win

Australia know they will have to find much more polish to get past New Zealand in their next match, but Alyssa Healy’s behind-the-stumps chatter was the picture of efficiency as her side claimed the wicket of Chamari Athapaththu.

  • Daniel Brettig
Meg Lanning during the 2023 World Cup.

‘No room for slip-ups’: The threat to Australia’s quest for World Cup history

Meg Lanning knows how to win Twenty20 World Cups, and she set out how Australia can claim a seventh title with the tournament starting for the Aussies on Saturday.

  • Daniel Brettig
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BCCI boss Jay Shah hands the ICC T20 World Cup trophy to India’s captain Rohit Sharma alongside ICC chair Greg Barclay.

Indian boss to take over world cricket amid $4.5 billion TV rights fight

Jay Shah will take over as chair of the International Cricket Council after forcing the resignation of the incumbent Greg Barclay, amid a $US3 billion dispute with its major broadcast rights holder.

  • Daniel Brettig
Australia’s Mitchell Starc.

‘Not laughing’: Starc still sore from Afghanistan cup snub

Mitchell Starc has spoken of his unhappiness at being dropped for Australia’s T20 World Cup game against Afghanistan and has criticised the tournament’s format.

  • Daniel Brettig
Katy Perry with the triumphant Australian team after they won the T20 World Cup final at the MCG in 2020.

‘Needs more oxygen’: Call for Amazon to share women’s World Cup with free-to-air network

Amazon should simulcast Australia’s matches for the upcoming women’s Twenty20 World Cup with a free-to-air network to maximise its audience, according to the former executive who oversaw the WBBL’s rise to the fourth most-watched sporting league in the country.

  • Daniel Brettig
Jay Shah with Indian skipper Rohit Sharma.

His dad is Modi’s right-hand man. India’s Jay Shah may soon be running world cricket

Why was Jay Shah on the podium when India won the Twenty20 World Cup? There is an election coming up.

  • Daniel Brettig

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