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...while away the boredom, a few exiled young Afghans began picking up cricket from Pakistanis. Abid was among them, and an unlikely source of national pride was born. Smashed concrete is all that remains of the Kacha Gari pitch now, and the boundary is marked only by lumps of piled-up dirt. But to many Afghans, it is a deeply moving place. On a recent return visit, Abid knelt down, kissed the ground and said, as if still astonished, "I started cricket here...
...they sent the country spiraling into 30 years of war. Millions of Afghans fled the country, many into neighboring Pakistan (from which they only started returning after the U.S.-led invasion of 2001). "At the time when the Red troops (Soviets) came, we fled to Pakistan and lived in Kacha Gari refugee camp...We thought we would never come back to our country," Abid says. (Watch a video about cricket in India...
...casts follow: "The Farewell Curse" Devayani, Miss Gertrude Hoffman Kacha. R. C. Burrell '24 Students. R. L. Morehouse '24 K. R. Childs '24 "Savitri" Aswapati. King of Madra. Philip Wardner '24 Sheela. Queen of Madra. Miss Gertude Hoffman Savitri. Princess of Madra. Miss Agnes James Meira. Her Friend. Miss Gardner Sabjavan, Prince of Salva. F. DeW. Pingree '24 Narad. the Hermit. R. Des. Childs '24 Vams, King of Death. W. C. Jackson 1G. "The Maharani of Arakan" Amina, Miss Dorothy Rohoneium, Miss Agues James Dalia, J.J. Collier '24 Tung Loo, W.C. Jackson IG. Rahmat Sheikh, r. DeS. Childa...
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