The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Worldwide Cricket Council launched separate statements the place each cricketing our bodies condemned the tragic assault in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, which claimed the lives of three younger cricketers.
In accordance with an earlier assertion made by the Afghanistan Cricket Board, it was revealed that three cricketers from the Urgun district in Paktika province have been focused by the Pakistani regime.
Three gamers (Kabeer, Sibghatullah and Haroon) alongside 5 different fellow countrymen from Urgun District have been martyred, and 7 others have been injured. They have been returning residence after collaborating in a pleasant cricket match, following which, they have been focused, as talked about within the ACB’s assertion.
Because of this, the Afghanistan board additionally introduced that they might pull out of the upcoming tri-series alongside Pakistan as properly.
The BCCI and the ICC condemned the tragic assault and likewise stand in solidarity with the ACB throughout this second of tragedy.
BCCI’s STATEMENT
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) expresses its deep sorrow and condolences on the tragic lack of three younger Afghan cricketers – Kabeer Agha, Sibghatullah, and Haroon – who misplaced their lives. within the cowardly cross-border airstrikes in Paktika province.
The BCCI stands in solidarity with the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), the cricket fraternity, and the households of the departed gamers throughout this second of profound grief and condemns this ghastly and unwarranted. assault. The lack of harmless lives, significantly these of promising sportspersons, is deeply distressing and a matter of nice concern.
The BCCI conveys its heartfelt sympathies to the folks of Afghanistan and shares of their ache and loss.
ICC’s STATEMENT
The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) is deeply saddened and appalled by the tragic deaths of three younger and promising Afghan cricketers, Kabeer Agha, Sibghatullah, and Haroon, who misplaced their lives in a current airstrike in Afghanistan’s Paktika province.
The three younger males had returned residence after collaborating in a pleasant cricket match once they have been killed in an assault that additionally claimed the lives of a number of civilians. The ICC strongly condemns this act of violence that has robbed households, communities, and the cricketing world of three shiny abilities whose solely ambition was to play the game they liked.
The ICC stands in solidarity with the Afghanistan Cricket Board and echoes their grief.
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