2 hours ago Latifi, who near her ain state successful 2021 astatine the property of 17, during the evacuations from Afghanistan, wants the squad to animate women who are blocked from playing sport.
The cricket team's endurance - and this royal gathering - was a accidental to talk up for women successful Afghanistan and to amusement "all the things that they can't bash there", she said.
She said that cricket had go her life, arsenic she present worked arsenic a coach, but it was besides a acquisition successful not giving up.
"In life, you get 1 chance. In cricket, if you're a batter, you mightiness conscionable bat once," she said.
Her ambition for the Afghan women's cricket squad is to beryllium capable to play again, arsenic the men's squad presently does, arsenic portion of the authoritative cricketing satellite and nether their ain nationalist flag.
Team-mate Shabnam Snahsan said it was "so disappointing" that the squad could not instrumentality portion successful this summer's World Cup.
But she was delighted that the Afghan women's squad was gathering the King and welcomed the nationalist amusement of solidarity.
"Back successful Afghanistan, women don't person the close to play cricket, adjacent to spell out, to survey oregon anything," she said.
"We're present to play cricket - but it's not conscionable cricket, we're present to combat for them and this has meant a batch for us."
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