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Afghanistan person pulled retired of a tri-nation bid with Pakistan and Sri Lanka adjacent period aft 3 section cricketers were killed successful an attack, the country's cricket committee said connected Friday (October 17, 2025).
The ACB said that the players had travelled from Urgun to Sharana successful the eastbound Paktika state connected the Pakistan borderline to instrumentality portion successful a affable match.
It said that "after returning location to Urgun, they were targeted during a gathering" successful what it described arsenic "a cowardly onslaught carried retired by the Pakistani regime".
The ACB named the 3 players arsenic "Kabeer, Sibghatullah and Haroon", and said that 5 different radical were besides killed successful the attack.
The ACB did not springiness immoderate much details connected the attack.
It said that it "considers this a large nonaccomplishment for Afghanistan's sports community, its athletes, and the cricketing family", portion extending its "deepest condolences and solidarity to the bereaved families".
The ACB said that it had decided to retreat from adjacent month's tri-series "as a motion of respect to the victims".
"The massacre of guiltless civilians and our home cricket players by these oppressors is simply a heinous, unforgivable crime," wrote Afghan planetary cricketer Fazalhaq Farooqi connected Facebook.
Another planetary player, Mohammad Nabi, added: "This incidental is not lone a calamity for Paktika but for the full Afghan cricket household and the federation arsenic a whole."
