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The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Saturday (October 18) announced that it has withdrawn from a scheduled T20 tri-series with Pakistan and Sri Lanka in response to the death of three cricketers and five more civilians in Urgun District in an alleged Pakistani airstrike.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) had only announced the tri-series last month. It was to begin on November 17 and run till November 29, with matches in Rawalpindi and Lahore.

However, Pakistan and Afghanistan, former allies, were involved in a week of bloody clashes, with both claiming dozens of casualties on the other side. A 48-hour ceasefire was agreed on Wednesday, which the Taliban, the militant outfit that governs Afghanistan, now says Pakistan has broken with fresh strikes.

“The Afghan

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