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AttackHelicopter_21 t1_j42vaze wrote

Reply to comment by Thunderboltscoot in Cricket Australia pull out of Afghanistan ODI series over Taliban restrictions on Women's freedoms. by LexiFloof

The only reason cricket is a thing in Afghanistan is because of the Soviet Afghan War. Millions of Afghan Pashtuns fled to Pakistan. The Afghan kids born or growing up in Pakistan picked up cricket from the Pakistani kids.

After 2001, millions of Afghans returned to Afghanistan and those refugees brought cricket with them. Large parts of the Taliban’s original force consisted of Afghans who grew up in Pakistani refugee camps where they picked up cricket.

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