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Shahid Afridi, Gautam Gambhir To Face Each Other On Cricket Field Again - Full Details

The clock will be turned back as the third edition of the Legends League Cricket will kick off at the West End Park International Cricket Stadium in Doha on Friday. Revisiting the memories of the past, former India opener Gautam Gambhir and ex-Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi will clash against each other on the field. While Gambhir is the captain of the team India Maharajas, Afridi will lead the Asia Lions as the match between the two sides will kick-start LLC 2023. The start time for the game is 8 PM IST. The third team in the tournament is World Giants. Aaron Finch is the captain of the side.

"Protect International Cricket Amid Surge Of Franchise Tournaments": MCC

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has called for "urgent intervention" to protect international cricket, saying it is at an "important crossroads" amidst a crowded global schedule that is getting increasingly swayed by domestic leagues. The mushrooming of leagues, including the latest offering of SAT20 and ILT20, is putting a lot of stress on the ICC's Future Tours Programme (FTP), leading to an "alarming disparity" in the number of matches played by a minority of member nations which is neither "equitable nor sustainable", it added.

Challenger Cup triumph evidence of progress in Saudi cricket

Victory in the 2023 Asian Cricket Council’s Challenger Cup in Thailand has catapulted Saudi Arabia’s men’s team into unchartered waters. It also emphasised the increasing levels of competition within Asian cricket.

UN warns of aid cuts over Taliban crackdown on women’s rights

UNITED NATIONS: The UN envoy in Afghanistan warned on Wednesday that a Taliban administration crackdown on women’s rights is likely to lead to a drop in aid and development funding in the country, where women fear being cut from public life as much as violent death. The United Nations has made its single-largest country aid appeal ever, asking for $4.6 billion in 2023 to deliver help in Afghanistan, where two-thirds of the population — some 28 million people — need it to survive, said Roza Otunbayeva.

Women’s Day rallies seek equality, focus on Iran, Afghanistan

MANILA/MADRID: Rallies marking International Women’s Day took place around the world on Wednesday after a year in which girls in Afghanistan were banned from education, mass women’s rights protests erupted in Iran and a landmark US abortion ruling was overturned.

Actor Nazanin Boniadi asks world to back Iran women protests

ABU DHABI: Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women’s rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and politically active woman.” Speaking on the sidelines of the Forbes 30/50 Summit in Abu Dhabi, Boniadi told The Associated Press that she hopes people will sign a petition she’s supporting accusing Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and Iran of committing “gender apartheid” with their policies targeting women. “These systems of oppressing women, of dehumanizing women, are based on strengthening and keeping these entrenched systems of power in place,” she said.

Afghanistan Announce Schedule For Home Series Against Pakistan

Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) have announced the schedule for the upcoming T20I series against Pakistan that will be played later this month in Sharjah. The series will begin from March 25, with the third and final T20I played on March 29. Afghanistan have played Pakistan several times in Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and International Cricket Council (ICC) events in recent years, but this will be the first time the two countries meet in a three-match T20I series.

Gender apartheid must be classified as crime under international law: campaign

London: A campaign on International Women’s Day supported by prominent Afghan and Iranian campaigners is calling for gender apartheid to be classified as a crime under international law, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.

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Shahid Afridi, Gautam Gambhir To Face Each Other On Cricket Field Again - Full Details

"Protect International Cricket Amid Surge Of Franchise Tournaments": MCC

Challenger Cup triumph evidence of progress in Saudi cricket

UN warns of aid cuts over Taliban crackdown on women’s rights

Women’s Day rallies seek equality, focus on Iran, Afghanistan

Actor Nazanin Boniadi asks world to back Iran women protests

Afghanistan Announce Schedule For Home Series Against Pakistan

Gender apartheid must be classified as crime under international law: campaign