‘Cricket is everything’: Adnan Miakhel’s England dreams alive as asylum granted - The Guardian

Talented teenager who escaped militia fighters in Afghanistan caught Freddie Flintoff’s attention during BBC series

On the dusty backstreets of Afghanistan, Adnan Miakhel played cricket with whatever he could find. He bowled for hours with a tennis ball and fashioned a bat out of a tree branch. His obsession with … [+3976 chars]

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