A cricket tournament was launched in Khost in the name of martyred Rahmat Wali Masroor

KHOST (SW): By the support of an investor in Khost, Mr. Ulfat, the Afghanistan national cricket team has launched a three days cricket match to remember former Afghanistan national cricket team player Martyre Rehmat Wali Masroor.

Dawaldin Ulfat, the financial supporter of the matches, told Salam Watandar in a special interview, that in this series, Ayubi, Kabul Bazan, and Ulfat cricket teams are playing and that this 3 day matches will be played in the Khost’s private cricket stadium.

Ulfat added that in this series, the Khost and other Kabul-based youth are offered the opportunity to play who were runner off from “first class (national team)” and the 19-year-old cricket team.

According to him, “Hardball” was inaugurated in the presence of Martyre Rehmat Wali’s family to showcase the services of that player to the Afghanistan cricket; so that the name of this player will remain alive between the cricket and cricket players in Afghanistan.

Ulfat said, for the health of youth, the cricket-based tennis ball tournament is arranged at Khost level, that last year alone, on his personal expense, he arranged a 6 matches tournament by the name of “Justice”; and among the famous players were Shafiqullah Shafaq, Wahidullah Shafaq, Batan Shah, and Juma Gul Shinwari.

Dawaludin Ulfat added that this year as well, Mohammad Shahzad Mohammadi, Hameed Hasan, Najibullah Zadran, Mirwais Ashraf, and Fazal Zazai were present for the inauguration ceremony of this series in Khost; but before the tournament, the Cricket Board asked them to return back to Kabul to attend the training for the six international matches.

According to Ulfat, he has future plans to start and sponsor a six-match cricket tournament in Nangarhar with the return of the national team from abroad and promised to keep the series sustainable for the development of the youth and to serve the youth of the country.

Martyre Rehmat Wali Masroor played in the Afghan cricket team from 2001 to 2006, who was killed in an attack on foreign forces in Khost province in 2008 at the age of 32.

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