The Afghanistan men's public group addresses Afghanistan in worldwide cricket. Cricket has been played in Afghanistan since the mid-nineteenth 100 years, yet it was exclusively in the mid 21st century that the public group started to appreciate achievement.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board was framed in 1995 and turned into a partner individual from the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2001 and an individual from the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in 2003. After almost 10 years of playing global cricket, on 22 June 2017, at an ICC meeting in London, full ICC Membership (and thusly Test status) was allowed to Afghanistan. Close by Ireland, this stepped through the quantity of Examination cricket-playing countries to twelve.
It is the main country to at any point accomplish Full Member status in the wake of holding Affiliate Membership of the ICC. The group is positioned ninth in Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket as of January 2021, and holds the world record for the most elevated ever T20I score, with their score of 278/3 against Ireland at Dehradun on 23 February 2019. In August 2021, concerns and questions were raised over the cooperation of the Afghanistan public cricket crew later on in worldwide matches since Afghanistan was brought heavily influenced by the Taliban. Concerns were raised over the security of Afghan public cricketers and their families who were still in Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover on 15 August 2021.
Starting around 31 August 2021, three of the Afghanistan ladies' public cricket crew had cleared to Canada, while the others feared how they, as ladies, would be treated by the Taliban.
Taliban spokespersons expressed that the Taliban wouldn't disturb the men's cricket crew's cooperation in global matches and that they would permit Afghanistan to play its very first respective series against Pakistan in Sri Lanka which is planned to begin in September 2021.
Notwithstanding the political disturbance, the Afghanistan cricket crew's media administrator Hikmat Hassan affirmed that Afghanistan would partake in the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
