*Pakistan airstrikes kill three Afghan cricketers; ACB withdraws from tri-series*

At least three Afghanistani cricketers have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike in Paktika province. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said that the players had travelled from Urgun to Sharana in the eastern Paktika province on the Pakistan border to take part in a friendly match.

The ACB named the three players as “Kabeer, Sibghatullah and Haroon” and said that five other people were also killed in the attack.

the Afghanistan Cricket Board cancelled a cricket tournament, in which Pakistan was to participate.