Cricket tournament: Peshawar wins Afghan refugee league

PESHAWAR: Imran Khan’s half-century on 21 balls guided Peshawar Atlan to a comfortable 10-wickets victory against Charsadda King in the final of the first Afghan Refugees Super Cricket League, which concluded at the University of Peshawar Campus ground on Thursday.

Commissioner Afghan Refugees in Peshawar Abbas Khan, Afghan Commissionerate Director General Waqar Maroof, UNHCR K-P Chief Kiran Core, officials and large number of spectators were present to see the match.

Abbas Khan said they had constituted 10 teams from Afghan refugee camps with an aim to involve the refugees youth in healthy sports activities. He said the league would be organised on regular basis and next time 15 teams would be constituted.  

Published in The Express Tribune, December 28^th, 2018.