‘No alternative’: Afghanistan Test all but cancelled by Cricket Australia | danbrettig
Australia’s inaugural Test match against Afghanistan is as good as cancelled after Cricket Australia stated it “would have no alternative” butEver since the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul last month, the Afghanistan Cricket Board had flagged the likelihood that its fledgling women’s cricket program was under threat, a view seemingly confirmed on Wednesday when the deputy head of the Taliban’s cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq, told SBS that “I don’t think women will be allowed to play cricket”...
The federal Minister for Sport, Richard Colbeck, had stated earlier on Thursday that the government could not support sporting contact with any nation that forbade women from playing sport.“We’ve made a clear statement that we don’t support excluding women from sport at any level,” Colbeck told SEN. Before the Hobart Test match, the Afghanistan men’s team has qualified to appear at the Twenty20 World Cup in the UAE, an ICC global event. The game’s governing body had stated overnight that it was concerned by, and would contemplate the country’s status as a full member of the ICC at its next board meeting in mid-November.
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