Tuba Jan Sangar was in her office at the Afghanistan Cricket Board last month when her manager called. “She said, ‘Where are you?’ She just told me to go home,” Sangar said. “Everyone was afraid that the Taliban would kill us. I didn’t sleep for one week and I didn’t eat anything.”
For seven years 28-year-old Sangar worked to develop women’s cricket in the country, from creating school-level teams to finally awarding contracts last year to the national squad.
But Taliban fighters were streaming into Kabul, sealing their conquest of Afghanistan and spelling the potential end of women’s rights to study, work and play sport. Sangar and her colleagues, who had for years battled resistance from across Afghan society, were devastated.
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