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Tim Albone

Out of the Ashes: The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Afghanistan Cricket Team

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Cool Runnings meets Joseph O'Neill's Netherland in an inspiring and feel-good story of bravery and sporting success from a country so widely known for war and extremism. This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team and their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations. That this devastated nation should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement. Seven years ago, in a country which does not have a real cricket pitch even today, there was no national team. But a group of young Afghan men, exiled by war, learnt to play in the smashed concrete of re… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7535-2247-9
  • EAN: 9780753522479
  • Produktnummer: 19819910
  • Verlag: Virgin Pub
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Masse: H21.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.4 cm 358 g
  • Gewicht: 358

Über den Autor


Tim Albone is the former Times and Sunday Times correspondent in Afghanistan. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondent Award. He is currently making a documentary about the Afghan cricket team and for the last fifteen months has had unlimited access to the squad during their remarkable effort to reach the World Cup.

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