India, Oct. 19 -- In what was a heart-wrenching incident, three club cricketers from Afghanistan - Kabeer Agha, Sibghatullah, and Haroon were killed in Urgun, Paktika province of Afghanistan, after returning from a friendly game in Sharana during an airstrike by Pakistan. The episode jolted Afghanistan's cricket community and triggered the national team's withdrawal from next month's T20I tri-series in Pakistan.

Accounts compiled by Cricbuzz describe the players being invited to a small meal after the match. Some teammates, fatigued from the day's cricket, stayed back. Those who went were caught when the location came under repeated strikes before nightfall.

An online panelist recalled some players saying they were too tired to join, wh...