http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/twenty20/9160629/Afghanistan-cricketers-on-the-fast-track-to-Test-status-after-World-Twenty20-success-in-Dubai.html

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Good luck to them!

Ace 🙂

he declares the solution for all the problems of the world to be cricket

Indeed, followed by a nice pick-me-up cup of tea. It’s always amazed me how so many foreign types – French, Italians, Germans, etc, struggle to understand this simple truth.

Even the Taliban approve of cricket so long as the players wear beards and pray.

It makes one wonder why we ever went to war with these perfectly reasonable chaps.

It makes one wonder why we ever went to war with these perfectly reasonable chaps.

Indeed. I believe we spent a good deal of the 80s arming them purely on the back of their love for the sound of leather on willow.

Bearing in mind the already-congested international
calendar, perhaps they could replace the Aussies?

AndyP – Member

Bearing in mind the already-congested international
calendar, perhaps they could replace the Aussies?

Hmmm, having seen their more recent form (and our own), I’m no so smug sat down here waiting for the next ashes series…