the Taliban banned women’s sports<\/a>, play two matches in Cambridge on Saturday at the historic Fenner’s ground.<\/p>\n“I hope that as a result of this match, people back in Afghanistan will also hear that the world is with them,” said Sir Laurie Bristow, president of Hughes Hall in Cambridge.<\/p>\n
Afghan journalist Zahra Joya, who is a bi-fellow at Hughes Hall, said: “Seeing the girls back in the field, I am overwhelmed and joyful.”<\/p>\n
“Obviously it is heartbreaking that they are denied to represent their country in international competitions.<\/p>\n
“It is a historical moment for Afghan girls, that they have this opportunity to play, and it shows their resilience and passion, their desire in sports,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An England cricket tour by the Afghanistan Women’s team is being hailed as “a historical moment for Afghan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-660776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}