Cricket News

Afghanistan coach Kabir Khan wants the ICC and more specifically the Asian Test-playing nations to provide his team with more games against Full Member opposition

Ireland have been rewarded for their successful WCL Division One defence by having four of their players named in the team of the tournament

Half-centuries from Mohammad Shahzad and Asghar Stanikzai helped Afghanistan secure a comfortable five-wicket victory in the third-place play-off against Netherlands in Rotterdam

Scotland experienced some hiccups in what was meant to be an easy chase, but held their nerve to beat Afghanistan by two wickets and sealed their place in the World Cricket League Division One final with Ireland

A round-up of the fifth day's action of the ICC World Cricket League Division One in Netherlands

A round-up of the fourth day's action of the 2010 WCL Division One

A round-up of the World Cricket League Division One match between Afghanistan and Netherlands which was carried over

A round-up of the second day's action of the World Cricket League Division One in Netherlands

A round-up of the matches on the first day of the ICC World Cricket League Division 1 tournament in the Netherlands

A round-up of the ICC World Cricket League Division One warm-up matches held on June 29

Haroon Lorgat, the chief executive of the ICC, has reaffirmed his faith in the ODI format, reposing faith on its ability to draw big crowds and generate sizeable viewership

Afghanistan's rise to official ODI status, and its qualification for the recent World Twenty20 in the Caribbean, is the crowning success of the Asian Cricket Council's development programs

Hamid Hassan, who was the first Afghan cricketer to play at Lord's when he spent time on the MCC Young Cricketers staff in 2007, has been included in the MCC side to play Pakistan in a Twenty20 game

The ICC development committee has expanded the global qualification system for the World Twenty20, to give the Associate and Affiliate members of the governing body a chance to feature in the tournament

A crisis meeting between the Afghanistan Cricket Federation and national team players has agreed to establish a four-member group of "impartial" persons to find and present a solution to several of the players' grievances

Raees Ahmadzai, who was part of Afghanistan's dream run from Division Five to the World Twenty20, has retired from the game in order to focus on developing the next line of Afghan cricketers

Hamid Hassan, Afghanistan's star quick-bowler, believes his team can head back to Afghanistan proud of their World Twenty20 experience and has challenged his side to become the best non-Test playing nation.

From the summit of playing South Africa at one of world's finest cricket grounds Afghanistan now step back to the Associate level which they are beginning to dominate

Morne Morkel and Dale Steyn delivered Afghanistan a harsh lesson by demolishing them for 80 to end their World Twenty20 dream and hand South Africa a safe path to the Super Eights

Defeats against India have put Afghanistan and South Africa in sudden-death mode going into their floodlit clash in Barbados on Wednesday