Allah Dad Noori, the founder of the Afghanistan Cricket Federation, was playing one day in Kabul when a young man walked by carrying an AK47, watched for a while before being invited to join in. Afterwards, he asked if he could play next time. When he returned he was without the rifle. “Where’s your AK47?” asked Noori. “Oh, I don’t need that,” the youth replied. “I’m playing cricket!”
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Thursday, April 13, 2006
Cricket in Afghanistan
Forget the Loya Jirga and eradicating the poppy crop, this is the way to bring peace to Afganistan:
ITS A GREAT STORY.THIS SHOWS THE POWER OF CRICKET.
ReplyDeletehow about we set up a way of sending redundant but useable kit over??
ReplyDeleteAnyone interested?