This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

The players were tasked with fabricating cover stories, such as travelling to Pakistan to visit a sick family member in hospital. They also needed to burn any uniforms or cricket equipment, any ...

Cricket in Afghanistan has a long history and dates back to the first rule of the Islamic Emirate when the Afghanistan Cricket Federation was established in 1995. During the current period ...