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 Posted: Sun 8:06, 18 Aug 2013 Post subject: 'They ask us about the war all the time' |
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'They ask us about the war all the time',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Spending a day with the Afghanistan cricket team can be an unusual experience,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as Andy Bull found out. Read his account of the encounter in the Guardian.
I would have liked to talk to them about how batsman Raees Ahmadzai was carried across the border to Pakistan in the 1980s as his family fled from the Soviet invasion. About how he and the others learned to play cricket in a refugee camp using balls made out of old torn up shirts and stumps made out of shoes. What I ended up discussing with the team's captain,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Nowroz Mangal,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was whether or not Pizza Hut's Chicken Supreme was Halal. We decided probably not. Margheritas and Sprite all round then.
Opener Karim Sadiq's mates call him 'Kabul ka Sehwag' for his big hitting,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and it is obvious who Sadiq's cricketing hero is. "In January 2004,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Afghanistan Under-19 team toured India,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and in a game at Mohali I scored a century,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], hitting six sixes. The Indian boys started calling me 'Kabul ka Sehwag',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the name stuck,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he grins. "I have videos of all Sehwag's knocks in my laptop."
Sadiq is disappointed he won't meet his idol in the Caribbean - the Indian star having had to drop out due to injury. "I had planned to ask him for an autographed T-shirt. I have heard Gautam (Gambhir) is his close friend,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], maybe I will ask him to arrange a meeting with Sehwag,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he says.
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