{"id":2768,"date":"2022-02-08T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T09:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taand.com\/en\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2022-02-08T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T09:41:48","slug":"one-afghanistan-player-three-staff-members-refuse-to-travel-back-seek-refuge-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taand.net\/en\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"One Afghanistan player, three staff members refuse to travel back; seek refuge in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per the latest developments, four members of Afghanistan\u2019s Under-19 team, which participated in the recently-concluded World Cup in West Indies, have stayed back in the UK and didn\u2019t return to Afghanistan with their other teammates. This includes one player and three members from the support staff. The quartet is reportedly in London and their transit visas are set to expire on Tuesday (February 8).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crictracker.com\/cricket-teams\/afghanistan\/\">Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Cricket Board (ACB) is yet to make any official comment on the development. Meanwhile, the Afghanistan team enjoyed a fruitful campaign in the World Cup and finished at fourth place, three places higher than in 2020. They even came close to defeating England in the semi-final clash but narrowly lost the rain-curtained encounter by 15 runs.<\/p>\n<p>While the Afghan side earned a lot of praises for their impressive show, this development has raised a lot of questions. As per a report in an Afghanistan news outlet, pashtovoa.com, \u201cThe Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has confirmed that a member of the Under-19 team and three board members have fled to the British capital, London, seeking asylum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former player Raees Ahmadzai, who was Afghanistan\u2019s head coach during the World Cup, has urged the four to rethink and return back to their home country. Ahmadzai also said he has messaged all four but none of them replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey received my messages. But they have not responded yet. I told them Afghanistan needs them. Sports and cricket has done a lot for Afghanistan. The support we got during the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crictracker.com\/womens-world-cup-2022-australias-hannah-darlington-pulls-out-due-to-mental-health-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cup<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was amazing, unbelievable. Sometimes when you do things for your country, it will mean a lot for you in your whole life,\u201d Ahmadzai told ESPNcricnfo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you can get emotional and can decide in the spur of the moment, but once you re-think about what you did I think it will hurt you. I believe they will go back. It is a personal choice. Sometimes you don\u2019t have a plan. I know these people. They were very good to work for Afghanistan cricket,\u201d he added. In case the quartet decides not to return, Ahmadzai said it would not affect Afghanistan cricket but they will be \u201cforever guilty\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the latest developments, four members of Afghanistan\u2019s Under-19 team, which participated in the recently-concluded World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Afghanistan player, three staff members refuse to travel back; seek refuge in UK - Taand English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/taand.net\/en\/?p=2768\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Afghanistan player, three staff members refuse to travel back; 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