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She first visited the country while working as a warzone doctor in stints between 1987 and 2001, and was struck by the populations resilience and determination. Staying with Mujahideen to organise clinics for refugee women and children, she eventually returned to the Berkshire Downs to have four children of her own.

Now her charitys tagline is Getting kids to pick up bats instead of guns, and it is a message thats ringing through.

There are a lot of problems in Afghanistan, affirms Jamal, but a lot of children are now joining games and spend their days playing cricket and doing good things.

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has partnered with Afghan Connection, and its president Matthew Fleming has visited Kabul and Jalalabad to explain the spirit of the game and help build pitches.

On dusty patches of ground bordered by desolate mountains, crowds of up to 12,000 have been known to gather at the cricket camps intended for 50 boys, and local governors have diverted funds to cricket development in their area as a result. In many places, girls are being taught, foregoing burkas to better wield a bat. The impact has been beyond our wildest dreams, says Fleming.

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