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Afghan Women’s Cycling Team placed 2nd, 3rd among 25 countries

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(Last Updated On: October 25, 2022)

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The National Women Cycling Team of Afghanistan has secured the second and third positions in a major international race, Cyclosportive Albigeoise, held in France on Sunday.

Three Afghan girls Zhala, Masoma, and Zahra who are famous as the little queens of Kabul have spent the last two weeks training in France, and three of them competed and owned 2nd and 3rd places among the 25 countries.

This was the first time Afghan girls were racing with “boys and girls” from different countries including the Europe, United States and Asia.

In Afghanistan, where women can be killed for a small affront to its conservative culture, biking can be unimaginable for almost 99 percent of the Afghan girls, but the three brave Afghan girls worked so hard and are now an inspiration to women everywhere.

Masoma Alizada, 19, who has own the second place in the competition says she feels ‘free’ when she ride bicycle in France compare to Afghanistan while the racing at an international competition in France has never been ‘imagined’ for Zahra Alizada, another member of the team.

“This is surely still unbelievable even for ourselves, but we tried hardly a lot to achieve this,” Zhala Sarmast, 17, the smallest and the smartest member of the Afghan Cycling Team said.

Afghanistan’s team was trained under the guidance of Rolland Gilles and Claudia Gillas, world champions, for 12 days in France where the Afghan team proudly stood on the first line on the start stage of competition and were very proud with Afghanistan flag on their shirts as said.

Zhala says the Afghan girls have been qualified for the world championship in Australia, which is going to be held in September 2016.

Afghan cyclist will arrive at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday at 09:00 am with their international medals and cups for their country.

The Albigeoise is an official French qualifying event for the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships which will be held in Perth, Australia in early September 2016. The event is open to licensed and non-licensed riders.

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IPL: Sunrisers thump MI in record breaking match

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It was raining records at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinching a 31-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 8 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

Sunrisers’ batting rewrote the record books on a batting belter after the posted 277 for three.

SRH now have the highest team score in the history of the IPL – beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) 263 for five from the 2013 season.

In reply, MI made a spirited effort, and at one stage, were contenders to do the near impossible. In the slog overs, the enormity of the target proved a bit too much, and SRH clinched victory, but not without numerous nervous moments.

To put into perspective the carnage we witnessed – Heinrich Klaasen’s 23-ball half-century was the slowest fifty of the SRH innings.

Travis Head, playing his first match for SRH, raced to the milestone in 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma got there even faster – in 16 balls – to record the quickest fifty by an SRH batter in IPL history.

While Sunrisers notched up the highest total in the 16-year history of the IPL, just as incredibly, Mumbai Indians almost paid them back with the same coin, their batters coming out with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

The sixes kept rolling off the Mumbai bats too, helping them keep up with the asking rate for most of the chase, eventually however, they ran out of steam and finished on 246 for 5, the highest IPL total in a losing cause.

As ESPNcricinfo reported, never were more runs scored in a men’s T20 match (523). Never were most sixes hit in a men’s T20 (38). At the end of the close to four-hour six-fest, only two bowlers returned with an economy rate of under ten an over.

Thursday, March 28 : Match 9

Thursday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur sees Rajasthan Royals go up against Delhi Capitals.

Fans in Afghanistan can tune in to Ariana Television to watch the match live from 6.30pm. Alternatively the match can be screened live on arianatelevision.com

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Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Afghanistan

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An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, the National Center for Seismology reported.

The quake was at a depth of 70km and epicentered in the mountainous north-eastern area of Ashkāsham.

The jolt was felt across the region including in Kabul, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

In October last year, over 2,000 people were killed when four 6.3-magnitude earthquakes struck in Herat province.

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Bayat Foundation helps needy families in Balkh

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

As part of Bayat Foundation’s Ramadan aid campaign, needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif, in Balkh province, received much needed food packages this week.

The aid package includes rice, flour and oil.

“In continuation of Bayat Foundation’s assistance, this time also a quantity of food such as flour, oil and rice was distributed to needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif; Inshallah, these contributions will continue,” said a representative of the foundation.

Needy families that received aid packages expressed their gratitude but called on other aid organizations to help the needy during these difficult times.

“Many thanks to Bayat Foundation, I thank Bayat Foundation for helping the needy and poor people of this region,” said a recipient said.

“I would like to thank Bayat Foundation for their cooperation in helping the needy in this holy month of Ramadan; it is hoped that traders and charities will do such sustainable work,” said another recipient.

Bayat Foundation is one of the charitable organizations that has played an important role in helping the needy in Afghanistan over the last two decades.

In addition to distributing aid packages to needy and vulnerable families, it has carried out numerous other projects, including the construction of health centers and schools.

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