{"id":53419,"date":"2025-10-18T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/afghanistan-withdraw-from-t20-cricket-tri-series-in-pakistan-amid-ongoing-cross-border-tensions-cricket-news\/18\/10\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:28:14","slug":"afghanistan-withdraw-from-t20-cricket-tri-series-in-pakistan-amid-ongoing-cross-border-tensions-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/afghanistan-withdraw-from-t20-cricket-tri-series-in-pakistan-amid-ongoing-cross-border-tensions-cricket-news\/18\/10\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan withdraw from T20 cricket tri-series in Pakistan amid ongoing cross-border tensions | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Afghanistan have pulled out of a T20 international tri-series in Pakistan next month after the deaths of three local cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said the deaths were due to military strikes amid ongoing cross-border tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Afghanistan extended a 48-hour truce amid peace talks on Friday, reported Reuters, after clashes that have killed dozens.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan were poised to play Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the tri-series between November 17 and 29 with two league-stage games scheduled between Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The ACB said in a statement: &#8220;The ACB considers this a great loss for Afghanistan&#8217;s sports community, its athletes, and the cricketing family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In response of this tragic incident and as a gesture of respect to the victims, the Afghanistan Cricket Board has decided to withdraw from participating in the upcoming tri-nation T20I series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan said he welcomed the decision while posting on social media platform X, writing that &#8220;national dignity must come before all else&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board has yet to comment on the development.<\/p>\n<p>In the tri-series, the top two teams after Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka had played each other twice would have reached the final in Lahore on November 29.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/cricket\/news\/12040\/13452143\/afghanistan-withdraw-from-t20-cricket-tri-series-in-pakistan-amid-ongoing-cross-border-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan have pulled out of a T20 international tri-series in Pakistan next month after the deaths of three local cricketers. The Afghanistan<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/afghanistan-withdraw-from-t20-cricket-tri-series-in-pakistan-amid-ongoing-cross-border-tensions-cricket-news\/18\/10\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1653,571,7386,33,6765,1373,3479,4238,7385,1210],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/25\/10\/1600x900\/skysports-afghanistan-cricket-flag_7053865.jpg?20251018111911","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53421,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53419\/revisions\/53421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}