Kabul – The crack of bat on ball echoes around the Kabul International Cricket Stadium as Afghanistan’s top cricketers get in some practice — just days after the country fell to the Taliban.
The calm of the empty stadium is a surreal contrast to scenes just a few kilometers north, where tens of thousands of Afghans at the Hamid Karzai International Airport are desperately trying to flee on evacuation flights.
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