"Cool Runnings" meets Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland" in an inspiring and feel-good story of bravery and sporting success from a country so widely known for war and extremism. This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team and their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations. That this devastated nation should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement. Seven years ago, in a country which does not have a real cricket pitch even today, there was no national team. But a group of young Afghan men,...
"Cool Runnings" meets Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland" in an inspiring and feel-good story of bravery and sporting success from a country so widely known...