Afghanistan cricketers take on United States - AJE Sport

Al Jazeera's Rahul Pathak reports from Dubai, where Afghanistan are bidding to qualify for their first major cricket tournament - the World Twenty20 in the West Indies.

A place in the Caribbean would mean matches against the likes of India, Australia and South Africa.

But first up is a historic meeting with the US, a country whose troops are still fighting in Afghanistan nearly nine years after launching their military campaign.

With a place in the last stages of qualifying up for grabs, both sides are forgetting the hype and insisting it is just another game.

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[najibsameh]

I love you AFGHANISTAN, insha allah we gonna win the T20 Cup of 2010, we are strong, We gonna show the world that we are not teroists, we are not Alqaeda, we are AFGHANS, we want peace, we have talent, ... let us in peace please, we want to do something for our country, we want to show the world that WE ARE ALSO HUMANS.. Give us some peace please.. i pray for you the Afghan Cricket team, love you! :-)