hazratullah shahidi hopes this will be his year.he had only played cricket with a tennis ball. hazratullah shahidi hopes this will be his year. until he was 15, he had only played cricket with a tennis ball. now, atjust 21, he's hoping to make the afghan squad for the 2019 cricket world cup. since then, hazratullah has gone on to become a world—class batsman. in 2019, he broke a world record, hitting 16 sixes in a match against ireland. and he hopes this will be enough to book him a place in the world cup squad. commentator: a big smile on his face, and why not? cricket was almost unheard of in afghanistan 20 years ago. at the time, many afghans were living as refugees in pakistan to escape taliban rule. and it was here, in the refugee camps of peshawar, that they learned the game of cricket. raees ahmadzai was one of the pioneers of afghan cricket. after the fall of the taliban, players began to return to afghanistan, and cricket began to flourish. but in a country struggling to rebuild itself, sport was not a priority. commentator