United Arab Emirates vs Afghanistan Wednesday, April 08, 2009

• Posted By hotafghans
  
  

  Afghanistans dream of World Cup glory stays alive but only just They will join Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Namibia, Netherlands, Kenya and UAE in Super Eight The make-up of the Super Eight stage of the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier was finalised today with Afghanistan continuing its incredible journey towards possible participation in the 2011 World Cup. It will, however, be very difficult for Norooz Mangal and his team to secure one of the four remaining spots at the event because the two matches it has won in this event so far have been against sides that didnt make the last eight and so, as a result, they will not carry forward any points to the Super Eight stage. As such, Afghanistan lies in seventh position, just ahead of Namibia on net run-rate, with four rounds of matches to go. But the words impossible or even unlikely do not seem to be in the Afghans vocabulary as, in the space of less than a year, they have managed to win through from Division 5 of the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League all the way up to the last eight of the top Associate and Affiliate teams in the world. This is a great achievement for us, said Afghanistan coach Kabir Khan. We came from Division 5 and now we have left behind us one team that played in the last World Cup (Bermuda) and two sides that were in Division 2 (Denmark and Oman) as well as Uganda which qualified with us from Division 3 so we are delighted with the progress we are making. Its a great moment. Our first target was to get in ...

Comments on United Arab Emirates vs Afghanistan Wednesday, April 08, 2009

• TrailerJunkBox10
  After Pakistan ma fav team in T20 WC 2010 was Afghanistan :D

• mehmood0
  we are proud to be our national cricket team long live afghanistan

• LethalSami
  Awesome Video Brother.............. CONGRATS on Afghan team reaching the Cricket T20 World Cup!!!!!......... Love from Pakistan........

• Aliwali14
  lol... make some realistic goals guyz... the goal should keeping the team for a long time.. to beat international teams, they have to go a long way.. and talk about unrealistic.. aussies and Pakistan.. r u evn serious.. for tht ... i can only say (DREAMS ON)... BUT very unrealistic.. no offence though..... good luck to the new and young side.

• IanGorton
  No they missed out. But DID qualify for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20

• AFGHANVIEW
  yes they did

• piron416
  yes they did. they beat UAE last night. on feb 12 2010, and they r going to face south Africa and India in the world cup in Australia 2011. Inshulah we can make that too.

• piron416
  as i heard they have only one match left to qualify inshal ulah they will.

• backcba1
  lolz 251 and 257 ,wow , Come on i think they can also beat Australia and paksitan + India ,lolz Go GO GO ,

• ljackstar
  Has Canada qualified yet?

• hotafghans
  no they did not. but they can play one day international

• akmalkh
  YOu Please Tell Did Afghanistan Qualify For World Cup 2011

• zeshan420
  hahaha ponka

• labbasira
  is this funny cricket ,no... this is cricket ..poor minnows!! ha..ha..ha.. beat aussies,you can do it .

• AfghanPride25
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• chaudary786
  nice vid