Afghan followers rejoice win over England from Mini Kabul to Delhi metro, from DU hostel mess to streets of Kandahar

Ahead of their match in opposition to India, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) for 50 passes to the native Afghan followers, however they didn’t get any.

On Sunday, in Delhi’s mini Kabul all of the Afghan retailers had been closed as most of them purchased tickets for the Afghanistan-England match and people who didn’t, acquired passes from the Afghan cricketers.

Haseebullah Siddiqi was among the many handful of Afghan followers, who acquired tickets, as a result of his childhood buddy Rahmanullah Gurbaz managed three for him. Haseebullah, who spent most of his time these previous few days with Gurbaz within the group lodge, didn’t understand how precisely to rejoice.

“I am just running with the Afghan flag in the metro. We are singing songs. This is a very emotional moment for the entire Afghan community in Delhi and those who are living abroad,” Haseebullah advised The Indian Express.

Haseebullah, an actor in Punjabi motion pictures, says this win will give power to his folks again residence, who’ve been residing beneath terror and people who have been affected by the earthquake.

“I am spending most of my time with Gurbaz. He kept telling me that he wanted to score a century and dedicate it to the people of Herat. He would just scroll through all the photos and videos of the earthquake. That is why he got so emotional after getting out. He wanted to hit a century and there was a planned celebration as well. I guess we’ll have to wait for another match,” says Haseebullah.

Mohammad Almas has not opened his burger store for the previous two days. He has spent all his time both exterior the stadium or the group lodge simply to get a glimpse of his favorite cricketers, Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan.

“It was impossible to get a ticket for the India match. But for this match, we got very easily and I just wanted to live this moment. I used to travel to Greater Noida and Lucknow as well, where Afghanistan used to play their home matches. A bit of an emotional moment for all of us. We would have never thought that we might be able to beat England ever,” says Almas, who was a journalist in Herat and left Afghanistan in 2018.

Meanwhile, Nazamudin Asar, watched the match alone within the mess at a post-graduate males’s hostel in Delhi University’s North Campus. Asar didn’t watch all the recreation, however after they took two early wickets, he raced to the hostel mess to look at the remainder of the match.

“This is historical right? The English never won a war against the Afghans, and now we defeated them in their own sport. What a moment,” laughs Asar.

Asar, 28, hails from Kandahar and has been residing in India for 9 years and is within the last stage of writing his PhD thesis on the India and Afghanistan commerce routes over time.

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“My father is scolding me saying why I was not in the stadium. My mother was telling me that people are on the roads celebrating. I can imagine it. Good for the team and most importantly for the Afghan people, who are living outside,” says Asar.

Nida Dar, a final-year pupil of Delhi College of Journalism, calls it a big achievement.

“Between all the sad news about Afghanistan, this is the best I have had since leaving my country.  This is a significant achievement for everyone, I mean for every Afghan. The cricket players, despite their challenges, showed their fighting spirit against the defending champions. This is the Afghan way,” she says.