Tim Albone's Book 'Out Of The Ashes'
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‘Out of the Ashes’ and into a bright future
For all of us around who like to think that a sport is all about action on the green field, it is perhaps time to think again. Tim Albone’s book ‘Out of the Ashes’ – depicting the rise of the Afghanistan cricket team, hits a ton in this regard.
Being a first-hand witness of the troubles faced by the land-locked nation due to the domestic violence as a war correspondent of The Times, Tim paints a vivid picture of how cricket in Afghanistan went beyond the win-loss equation and changed the lives of all the people involved with it – albeit being a fledgling sport in the country.
The protagonist of the story is Taj Malik, who crossed the Afghan-Pak border in early-2000s with a vision – to form an Afghan