Thanks Mike, appreciate that

Telling the players’ stories is only part of it. They need funding if they’re to ever play together as a group again. They need support for coaching & other life skills too. Pitch Our Future will provide that - but only if sufficient donations come in www.lords.org/refugeefund

The ECB is at least now following CA’s lead in doing something positive to support the women who had to flee. That, to my mind, was the first thing cricket leaders should have been doing from 2021.

Thanks Liz. Hopefully you’ve heard us covering their stories on Stumped since they first left Afghanistan in 2021. So great that you’re there.

Afghan Women’s XI in blue. Their shirts were designed by one of the players Benafsha Hashimi. The logo on the chest depicts a white cricket ball surrounded by the red tulip and the golden wattle; the national flowers of Afghanistan & Australia respectively