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Former Afghanistan women鈥檚 development manager Tuba Sangar says boycotting the national cricket team would 鈥渄estroy people鈥檚 hope鈥� during uncertain times.

In a wide-ranging interview with Stumped presenter Alison Mitchell, Sangar, who has fled the country, admitted there鈥檚 currently 鈥渘o hope鈥� for women's cricket in the country.

Cricket has become the national game of Afghanistan due to the extraordinary rise of the men's team over the last decade.

A requirement of Afghanistan鈥檚 Test status, awarded to them by the International Cricket Council in 2014, is supporting a women鈥檚 team.

A Taliban representative last week told the media that he did not think women would be allowed to play cricket but since then Dr Hamid Shinwari, the CEO of the Afghanistan Cricket Board has said it's doing all it can to "grow cricket in the traditional cultural, religious and changing political environments of the culture."

Photo: Members of Afghanistan's first national women's cricket team take part in a training session in Kabul. (Credit: SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Images)

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