page_title: Afghanistan Cricket Board
section_title: Cricket grounds in Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: Afghanistan Cricket Board / Cricket grounds in Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan on Thursday, June 23, 2011.
context_page_description: The Afghanistan Cricket Board is the official governing body of cricket in Afghanistan. It is Afghanistan's representative at the International Cricket Council and was an associate member of ICC from June 2013 until becoming a full member in June 2017. Before that it was an affiliate member and has been a member of that body since 2001. It is also a member of the Asian Cricket Council. The women's team was formed in 2010. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is the patron-in-chief of the board.
context_section_description: The Afghan national cricket team does not play its home matches inside Afghanistan due to the ongoing security situation and the lack of international standard facilities. Afghanistan played their 'home' Intercontinental Cup fixture against Ireland at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium in Sri Lanka. Following Afghanistan's World Twenty20 qualifying campaign they played two One-Day Internationals against Canada at the Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium in the UAE, after which the stadium was named the 'home' ground of Afghanistan.
  Work on the Sherzai Cricket Stadium in Jalalabad, a city known in Afghanistan for being the 'capital of cricket', is in progress. Construction has also begun on the Kabul National Cricket Stadium and the Kandahar International Cricket Stadium in the south of the country.  The President of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, Omar Zakhilwal, announced in October 2010 that the government was planning to construct standard cricket grounds in all 34 provinces in the next two years.
  The following are the most important cricket stadiums in Afghanistan:
  Ghazi Amanullah International Cricket Stadium in Ghazi Amanullah Town, Jalalabad
  Kandahar International Cricket Stadium in Kandahar (under construction)
  Kabul National Cricket Stadium in Kabul
  Balkh Cricket Stadium in Mazar-i-Sharif
  Khost Cricket Stadium in Khost
  Sherzai Cricket Stadium in Jalalabad (under construction)
  Kunduz Cricket Stadium in Kunduz
caption: The Sherzai Cricket Stadium in Jalalabad is under construction as seen in this June 2011 image
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