They have settled in Australia, where they are playing club cricket with the hope of representing their nation someday.

Female cricketers Firooza Amiri and Benafsha Hashimi fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in 2021. They have urged the ...

Firooza Amiri and Benafsha Hashimi talk about their love of the game, their hardships, and how they hope their men's team can ...

Firooza Amiri and Benafsha Hashimi, who fled the country after the Taliban takeover in 2021, speak to ESPNcricinfo about the ...

Once again "Support Afghan women cricketers” is trending. International cricket will come to Pakistan with the Champions ...

The first sighting of selfie-king Sam Konstas is had, and also a remarkable young Afghan girl Benafsha Hashimi, a 22-year-old who had fled Kabul as a 18-year old cricketer along with her teammates, is ...

Players like Firoza Amiri and Benafsha Hashimi then fled their homes for sanctuary across the world because as, ambitious, successful women, their lives were at risk under the Islamist militia's rule.

Most of their families hesitated to let them play in public. Benafsha Hashimi, a team member, remembers her mother wishing that she would play poorly and give up on a sporting career. Roya Samim ...

Additionally, she was the runner-up in the 2022 Afghanistan national road race championship. Hashimi will now compete at the highest level of women’s professional cycling with the German squad ...