A decade ago, it would have taken a foolhardy soothsayer to predict that Afghanistan would be mixing it with the big boys of cricket at the 2010 World Twenty20 in the Caribbean.
Such a prophecy would have been roundly dismissed for two very good reasons: neither the Afghanistan cricket team nor the competition existed.
The fact that Afghanistan are at the World Twenty20 this year, then, points to a remarkably rapid rise through the cricketing world since the national team was formed in 2001.
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