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- Updated: October 2, 2016
Afghanistan will have to wait till June next year for their next international assignment, when they travel to the West Indies. Neither of the teams will be part of the Champions Trophy, which will also take place at that time of the year in England.
In the interim, Afghanistan will take part in a training camp at home, play in this season’s Ahmad Shah Abdali four-day domestic tournament and wait for confirmation on a T20 tournament in Dubai involving other Associate nations.
Afghanistan’s manager Abdul Wali Amin said that coach Lalchand Rajput wants to focus on fitness during the camp to be held from mid-November.
“We don’t have anything from now till December,” Amin said. “Maybe next year there’s an Associate T20 series in Dubai. The [domestic] four-day tournament started on September 29, and it will go on for more than two months. The …
