Nazifa Amiri - who fled Afghanistan and moved to Australia - calls on the world to help women in her home country, claiming they have no future under the Taliban.
"I could help my parents, my husband, my siblings, but other girls' families are still in Afghanistan.
When the Afghanistan men's team were voted in as a full member of the ICC in 2017 they did not meet the criteria around women's cricket, citing cultural and religious reasons. "They are really rude about girls playing sport. Most people think that sport isn't nice for a woman. "We have a coach, we have equipment, we have a ground, we never had a ground in my city Herat, we have all things except our national team.""We didn't get any support from them it's really sad when you see other countries men's and women's teams together, they support each other."Give us the chance to represent our country. All the girls on my team want to put on their uniform, see our flag flying in the ground. We request the chance to play cricket.
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