Many comments have been made on the subject of whether England should play cricket against Afghanistan while their women are barred from playing at all. Yet few outsiders are as qualified to speak as Dr Sarah Fane.
The chair of the MCC Foundation worked in Afghanistan for 20 years and was among the first to organise cricket in the country, thereby helping sow the seed of perhaps the most surprising growth in the history of sport. After all, Afghanistan have now beaten the country that invented cricket, England.
Fane won an OBE for her work in Afghanistan, before Western governments pulled the plug and left the country in the clutches of the Taliban.