Talented teenager who escaped militia fighters in Afghanistan caught Freddie Flintoff’s attention during BBC series
On the dusty backstreets of Afghanistan, Adnan Miakhel played cricket with whatever he could find. He bowled for hours with a tennis ball and fashioned a bat out of a tree branch. His obsession with the sport grew and grew.
“Cricket to me is everything,” he said later. “Somebody said to me: what’s your favourite hobby? Cricket. What do you want to do in the future? Cricket. Everything cricket, cricket, cricket.”
