Out of the Ashes
Subtitle: the extraordinary rise and rise of the Afghanistan cricket team
By: Timothy Albone
Publisher: Clipper Large Print
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781407477756
Subjects: Cricket; Large type books
Description: This is the true story of the Afghanistan cricket team and their extraordinary attempt to join the world's elite cricketing nations. That this devastated nation should be able to field a cricket team at all, let alone one as successful as this, is an unbelievable achievement. Seven years ago, in a country which does not have a real cricket pitch even today, there was no national team. But a group of young Afghan men, exiled by war, learnt to play in the smashed concrete of refugee camps, and have risen from obscurity to the groomed grass pitches of international cricket. With unlimited access, Timothy Albone has traveled alongside the team for the last two years, charting the players' progress from refugees in Pakistan to the brink of international sporting stardom.
Table of contents: title: Incredible journey; title: Grand designs; title: First team; title: Giant step; title: World cup dream; title: Praying for rain; title: Hero of Afghanistan; title: Back in perspective; title: New approach; title: Golden day; title: Rubbing shoulders; title: Phoenix from flames; title: World cup dream comes true; title: On the world stage.