If they are not allowed to wear trousers to play cricket at home, I guess they wear Shalwars at home. But how come they allowed to wear trousers in a foreign country?
Afghan cricketers arrive
PESHAWAR: The first-ever Afghan cricket team arrived here Tuesday on a week-long tour and said the visit was aimed at taking gradual steps into international cricket. “We are here on a tour of goodwill and aim to take gradual steps in international cricket,” team captain Allahdad Noori said.** All 17 members of the novice team are bearded and will play their matches in trousers, which they are not allowed to do at home, cricket officials said. The hardline Taliban militia which rules most of the Afghanistan has barred Afghans from wearing trousers in line with its puritanical interpretation of Islamic Sharia law**. “We want to tell the world that Afghans can also play sports,” Noori said. War-battered Afghanistan is isolated in the world and is under the United Nations sanctions for its refusal to hand over indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden. The millionaire Saudi dissident is wanted by United States over the 1998 twin bombing of its embassies in East Africa. Noori said the Taliban was not against sports. “Islam remains the first priority but ever since Taliban have taken control, cricket has become popular in Afghanistan,” he said. The Afghanistan team, invited here by the Pakistan Cricket Board, will play two matches each in Peshawar and Rawalpindi. The first match will be against the Peshawar under-19 tomorrow (Thursday).