Sports reunites a war-torn nation

Nick Friend is a CNN sports journalist. He reports sporting activities from across the world. In a May 27, 2019 CNN sports feature, Nick looks at how cricket has united Afghanistan despite its name being associated with war. Cricket has re-branded Afghanistan and unlike in the previous years when you uttered the name Afghanistan and war came into mind, today when you say the name Afghanistan, cricket comes into mind. Nick shows the trans-formative effects of cricket on a war tone nation. Stanikzai notes that "Now, because of cricket, everyone wants to be a sportsman, everyone wants to be a popular person."  Today, Afghan is a cricket powerhouse with cricket being played from one street to the other since it is an avenue for popularity. Nick uses Pathos to tell the story of Afghanistan and reflect on its citizen’s passion when it comes to playing cricket. The conditions of Afghanistan as demonstrated in the images appeals to audiences’ emotion about the country and what it has gone through. The use of first person of the game’s great to help explain the impact of t

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Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/20/sport/afghanistan-cricket-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html

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