Out of the Ashes: The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Afghanistan cricket teamCool Runnings meets Joseph O'Neill's Netherland in an inspiring and feel-good story of bravery and sporting success from a country so widely known for war and extremism. This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team and their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations. That this devastated nation should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement. Seven years ago, in a country which does not have a real cricket pitch even today, there was no national team. But a group of young Afghan men, exiled by war, learnt to play in the smashed concrete of refugee camps, and have risen from obscurity to the groomed grass pitches of international cricket. |
Contents
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Grand Designs | 15 |
The First Team | 41 |
A Giant Step | 59 |
World Cup Dream | 85 |
Praying for Rain | 105 |
Hero of Afghanistan | 125 |
A Golden Day | 165 |
Rubbing Shoulders | 179 |
Phoenix from the Flames | 191 |
The World Cup Dream Comes True | 211 |
On the World Stage | 223 |
Afterword | 233 |
Acknowledgements | 237 |
Match Results and Scorecards | 241 |
Back in Perspective | 139 |
A New Approach | 149 |
Player Profiles | 287 |
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