i said to my dad i love to play cricket. i. first time i went to run in 2003 to kabul and i played cricket in 1st game i took 4 week it's. also had some success in the met. everybody who. came for. this is the ground where hamid 1st played in kabul right now it's the only dress pitch in afghanistan but more are planned and it seems shared ambition is to one day play an international match in their home country if you played. against pakistan or against bangladesh or against any or full member country if he if he. don't if he certainly people i'm sure 100000 people will become to watch the match cricket was yes played there but in a very small way now it's the number one game in afghanistan and. that is taking

them away from the streets. where the only thing they knew was to carry guns and fight now instead of guns they killing cricket bats. this team has now carried their bats around the world. in cricket the name afghanistan is associated only with success and progress. but no one could have guessed just how good this side was about. afghanistan's cricket team was formally recognized by the sports world governing body in 2001 at the time they had no world ranking and no home ground like did have was a supremely talented generation of players and so began one of the most unlikely journeys in sports in history. the european channel island of jersey was afghanistan's next stop with the financial backing of the international and asian

cricket councils the team were and sit into division 5 of the world cricket league the lowest tier of the international game. are all kabul is certainly wasn't but a familiar scene was soon so unfold afghan cricketers celebrating a tournament win on foreign soil come forward when there's more titles followed in asia africa even south america the refugee camps where it all began suddenly seemed a long way away before letterman for does that get back to something else of a go we had a coach who told us that cricket would give us the chance to see the world i thought he was crazy how could we ever go to europe or the rest of the world he toured all of the players that. that respect the pads respect you were can't

respect you would. expect you or your you or your cricket equipment and you guys will be treated well by the way the reason africa do you will be. doing that if you . especially i will thing that the whole lord will be same. same kind of how simple i know to lose. you knowing today we don't know about mental. they didn't even know how good you showed good the only thing they knew was to just get on a donkey. crossed the border into pakistan their attitude has changed. you know dead don't worry instinct is still there but it's mellowed down a bit by now afghanistan had a full time coach overseeing their rice through the world rankings former pakistan test player cabbie a car on board in push up where most of the players had also started life there was

an immediate bond sometimes ask them a question what is your dream what do you want to do and what will be your best moment and this is our best moment of her life is when our flag goes up and when our national anthem isn't. being played there in the studio they say if you love those more than he can play for that there was some help as well our circle from. coming here because in the game going to a losing rain came in something sometimes when you think badly cayman island and it would be trained only for 5060 i would just just look at it. and i've never seen that in my life. by early 2010 the team had made it as far as dubai. and the final qualifiers for that c 20 world cup there defining game was against the united arab emirates one more win and the world cup place would be there as.

the high stakes were reflected in some visibly nervy performances. the u.a.e. scored just 100 runs that 20 overs. afghanistan to chase biggest schools all over. the world never was so much riding on the outcome. it was now that all their hard earned experience of life and cricket came together they held their collective nerve and the winning runs were scored with just 3 fourths to spare.

afghanistan were on their way to the world cup. kept in the rules mungle told me that you should scratch me that i'm dreaming or know if you qualify for the world cup. so i said the rules mungo you qualify for the ok you know you play in the work of. scientists is getting ready to go to the t 20 world cup in the west indies afghanistan ranked as one of the 12 best sides in the world but i draw well that could hardly be toughened up against it 6007 world champions india and one of the favorites to win the tournament south africa i think these 2 countries in the in the in the in the in my mind number one in number 2 in the morning and right now

clifford bowling batting feeling everything is 100 percent but our players is very mature and they played today and then and in the different conditions but we will be not easy for them. for india or for. every single one of them and i'm hearing them and they're talking amongst themselves they want to talking about winning the game our nation has all it wants to win the world cup that's another i would sometimes i take it as a pressure sometimes i think it's good for the players as well because the players are not thinking about anything else they just weren't thinking about when. the games there are members of the wider cricketing world has heard much but seeing little of afghanistan now that is all about such a huge racial and they've gone from raw lots of coal in the polish diamonds terrific ambassadors for their game for their country and for the spirits of human success other countries have grounds they've got slaughtered got nets the got bats and balls the equipment had nothing till has very little these cricket has

represent the absolute pinnacle of their sport and their country. on may the 1st the caribbean island of simply show will be the stage for afghanistan's 1st world cup match against india. the afghanistan cricket team on their own terms and in defiance of sporting logic will be standing side by side with the world's best. 8 when you see other teams cricketing there is a facility that others and you think ok they have got a bit of edge on you but then if they win or lose and want to go that's going to be another story but it's still my hero and obviously i personally think that i'm proud of this team. they're doing for peace and we want to change the mind of the people that that was what is really bad and we want. that the whole country to

come like like like the unity like we have in our team. we have not decided to legarda countries have we just don't know how ground kidneys nothing . and we are just being forward country envy replay are far from hard. for a country drive isn't a country. proud to be an afghan from 2001 well what better way to catch up with this film than with 2 of its main players in the studio with us here andy richardson of course who created that film in 2009 and joining us from kabul as well we've got recent ones i know who you also saw there so gentlemen thank you so much for joining us do appreciate it and let's start with you what has become of this afghan team since 2009 i'm thinking about actually 29000 cricket world cup in england the 10 top

teams in the world and afghanistan's in amongst them it's been an incredible story i mean we were really lucky to al-jazeera really look at the chance across them if you like we went to a tournament in kuwait in 2007 and it wasn't covered afghanistan cricket saying it was to cover the emergence of 2020 cricket and how important it was going to be for the future of developing cricketing nations but as soon as we got there to this tournament it was very quickly apparent it was one star team then that was afghanistan everybody was talking about them even though the tournament was being played in kuwait they had hundreds of ex-pat fans all around the ground watching them and it was very quickly apparent that they were going to be the rising stars in this one it's a to tell you that the teams they were playing in 2007 at the start of the film hong kong kuwait's malaysia no pow oman qatar saudi arabia singapore and the u.a.e. are not the world's greatest there is $190.00 and they're playing their part of the top 10 in the world so it's been an incredible journey in the fact that from 2007

when we 1st found them they were in a world cup of tea 20 world cup within 3 years it shows you how much talent that country house well let's bring rhys in then from kabul well what do you 1st of all tell us what you're actually up to these days i'm working with. i want to start a good war. i was i was a good note. i took way retirement from the international cricket in 2010 i become the after one year i became the head of selection committee and. director of what is on a pretty good board and different position work with the junior level players work with the national side but now our days i'm working with one in stand under 19 our team is a head coach race it's on the head great to see young now the need to 10 years ago . first of all the experiences you had 10 years ago when you were playing without emerging seen one of the key messages you try and give to young players now the

specially the messages for the for the for the young generation and we are just feeling their way we start cricket with nothing to sell it is and i'm going to look lots of people because i've no idea what cricket everyone was just saying that cricket is belong but when it's on belong to pakistan because there are a few people who when they come from pakistan the people of kabul they were thinking that cricket is a pakistani game but there was no idea and now everyone knows about cricket that cricket is really a popular game and we are and the young generation to be out of the of the are very lucky there are good good support from the family side the government supporting the cricket board is supporting so cricket is the number one sport and i'm going to stand all the youngster who want to play cricket so does cricket have a positive knock on effect for young people in fact for the whole country race when we think about afghanistan we think unfortunately about war and unrest sports does

cricket specifically have a positive impact there. yeah we're going to give you you're going to go to give a good name. and i remember when i was the captain when we were going to do we had a match and i can't remember the exact name of the religion i think it was a link it was a very small village we heard a cricket match there and the people of that really do as i've no idea about about i'm going to start they were just you do or just knew of where you stand because you just up war and they you mentioned at the start of this you talked about t 20 cricket 2020 cricket the short version of the game which is actually where all the money is now there's all these circuits all over the world and they're out there cricket is making money have there been afghan players who've managed to get into that as well i think one of the really interesting things about afghanistan cricket in cricket is that the culture is immersion a very different way in every sense referring to it there we think of it as

a game that is the product of british colonialism it was left as a legacy of empire if you like afghanistan cricket is merged in a completely different way and these guys 15 years ago were learning cricket in pakistan in refugee camps there was no legacy from from the english and as a consequence they learned that cricket in a very tough way street cricket playing tape ball cricket meant bowlers emerged of the one of the like no one had ever seen in the world and as a consequence now they are like gold dust amazing changes since 2000 and isn't a gentleman great to have both of you but this recent i thank you for joining us from kabul afghanistan to get through with us here in the studio and that is it for this week but do check out the rewind page out as they were dot com for more films from the series i'm kemal santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time. rewind returns with

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and richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. your state. dorian hammers the bahamas with what's being described as catastrophic conditions. a student boycott and a call for a general strike hong kong faces more disruptions in the latest wave of anti-government protests. i meet the right hand to refugees who may have captured evidence of atrocities and me and mark. the u.s. says it fully supports israel's right to self-defense after the israeli military and hezbollah fighters exchanged fire along the lebanese border as well off fired anti-tank missiles towards an israeli military post on sunday afternoon israel was founded by sending about 100 artillery shells at what it says was has

a lot targets across the border reports from northern israel. on sunday afternoon the tense week long waiting game was over the strike that hezbollah had been promising was underway anti-tank missiles fired at an israeli army base near the community of avivim just south of the lebanese border hezbollah t.v. claimed an israeli tank had been destroyed and soldiers killed the israeli military said while its base had sustained hits no soldiers had died israeli artillery and air strikes targeted lebanese border areas but reports from there said the shells hit mainly empty areas no casualties were reported on either side less than 2 hours after it begun the israeli army said the confrontation appeared to be over and. we were attacked by several anti-tank missiles we're tally added with about 100 shells from the area and by other means were holding consultation concerning the

future i ordered them to be prepared as you know for any possibility we have no casualties not even a scratch the latest escalation started a week ago has blossomed an attack on a stronghold in southern beirut last sunday was carried out by israeli drones it followed in israeli as strike that killed 2 hezbollah fighters in syria israel said it had prevented a drone attack being launched from that. as well as leader hassan nasrallah warned then and repeated on saturday that his forces would strike back and he denied israel's justification for its recent attacks that hezbollah and iran were assembling precision guided missiles inside lebanon. it's a pretext netanyahu is using to attack and i said on many occasions that we have enough guided missiles for what we need but not precision guided missile factories . benjamin netanyahu insists iran's growing threat necessitates an expanding

israeli response it's just over 2 weeks until the israeli elections forceful action backs up his carefully nurtured image as israel's mr security at ascent into full scale war on the lebanon border less so in the weeks since haasan the stroller gave his warning of a retaliatory strike all of the messaging from both sides all the analysis suggested that my that israel nor hezbollah wanted an escalation towards all out war and in their actions earlier on sunday they appear to have proved that right limiting and calibrating their military actions to satisfy their domestic audiences without for now at least triggering a broader conflict are a force that al-jazeera just outside avivim in northern israel and the un special envoy d.m.n. has condemned air strikes by the saudi marathi like coalition which killed at least 70 people the strikes had a detention center right across the lanes more than $100.00 people were killed

happen in samarra city in the early hours of sunday al-jazeera as mohammed reports from the scene of the strike. residents in the now say explosions shark in the city on saturday night aid workers have been pulling the dead injured out of the rubble the whole he's blamed the sodium are as you qualify pointing in yemen were targeting a previous university that was being used as a detention center for prisoners of war. dozens more have been rushed to hospital. i swear to god i don't know what happened we were sleeping at midnight in the in the it was about 3 or 4 airstrikes maybe 6 it was targeting the jail i really don't know how many times it got hurt but it was targeting at the teachin seemed to in the city of demand we were $100.00 people on the ground level in around $150.00 at the apple evil and in the red cross came. see people under lock

and key we're trapped as the bombs fell rights activists are calling for international investigations into the prison they say innocent people are killed in such operations carried out by the saudi with quality saudi arabia says it plans to air strikes on healthy military targets the quality of the site was storing drones and missiles something deny on a gun as that the are not going to this prisoner subject international red cross committee inspections every now and then and such accusations by riad a baseless especially as it's called and it's a been shared with the red cross the red cross believes after 100 people were killed and it's helping to find survivors some rights activists accused the whole season of war crimes by keeping up on and in such presence there is a crime committed by the. painting of political activists and journalists.

and political dissidents whom they use in places that they constantly have been advised by human rights and you know not to not to put them in dangerous areas also most of those people who have died today have basically haven't even seen in court the saudi electrician continuous bombing of residential residential areas even if they answer that question or that specific place they believe may be in may have some. form of the military a military target these are residential areas this is why. such accusations has been denied by what these are this side of the bombed prison. we have an official list of the prisoners held inside the prison that is being shared with the international committee for really. cross all of the prisoners have

been captured by the army units from battlefields. because she has been fighting in yemen since 2015 supporting the internationally recognized yemeni government against how these the war has killed tens of thousands and had a devastating impact on millions of yemenis with many on the brink of famine. bob. the mark province. hurricane dorian has become the most powerful storm to make landfall in the bahamas the category 5 storm is battering islands with torrential rain leaving some parts underwater and gallagher reports from miami and florida were dorian is expected to hit next. hurricane dorian packing sustained winds close to 300 kilometers per hour is battering the bahamas this is one of the most powerful storms to hit this nation and is predicted to linger for hours with coastal surges in excess of 6 meters despite pleas some residents have decided to ride the storm out

a decision officials say could put their lives at risk that is not a good idea they're asking you to reconsider that decision and to seek shelter in the rest. of leave before the weather becomes too severe to come into freeport this is not a time for us to seek to resist forecasters say dorian should turn north hugging the east coast of florida once it passes over the bahamas but risks remain florida georgia and the carolinas are making last minute preparations even if dorian remains on its predicted path strong winds heavy rains and storm surges could have a catastrophic impact even the slightest deviation with a storm this large ferocious and slow moving could be deadly this storm at this magnitude could really cause massive destruction and do not put your life in jeopardy by staying behind i when you have a chance to get out and you still do have time to prepare yourself and to make sure

that you and your family are safe states of emergency have now been declared in parts of florida georgia and the carolinas and the dangers will remain for some time the eye of hurricane dorian may remain off the coast of florida but much of the state is still inside the cone of uncertainty from its formation dorian has surprised forecasters strengthening significantly on. sunday morning the 1st outer bands are expected to hit late on monday and then to choose day all millions can do now is watch and wait as this huge storm creeps closer to the u.s. all eyes are on the bahamas with significant damage is already being reported the next few days could prove devastating i have put everything but my house which i still don't think up what i know but we don't know how long we're going to be. so we have to take whatever proportions have and i want whatever the nitpicks we can have but i think the thing will be together here in the not no one should be alone

forecasters are warning that dorian may slow down even as it grows in intensity some of describe the storm as textbook of the say it's a lingering monster that will threaten lives for days at a gallacher al-jazeera miami florida ok running as the press secretary to the former bahamas prime minister perry christie he described the conditions on the islands currently on the island of marsh where i live and the city of moksha go away if we are hearing reports of entire destruction of whole blocks. of the flooding in some key economic parts of the island is gone. and so the major concern right now is see preserving life on. the other the concern is that the hurricane is coming in the night and that greece issue of high tide i along with the rare circumstance are. the concern we have is being able to get.

assistance to them the the infrastructure i've been told has been gone flooding is severe and so the government the hard determine whether or not the app waters is able to use the euro bahamas the friends forced on the ready they have been sending the marines in that ron so i think that that they do want to support and to support a quick response. the governors of georgia and south carolina have ordered mandatory evacuations of their coast sides based on the latest forecasts and storm track which we have been following very carefully and after extensive consultation with local county emergency management officials and those you see here today i'm issuing a mandatory evacuation starting at noon starting at noon on monday september 2nd still had on al-jazeera because president promises to tackle violence and

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