'Pathetic' Aussies ripped for Afghanistan move

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Afghanistan cricket officials blasted Australia's determination to cancel their men's one-day planetary cricket series.

Cricket Australia cited caller heavier restrictions connected women's rights successful Afghanistan by the Taliban authorities for axing the 3 ODIs successful March successful the United Arab Emirates.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board said it was “extremely disappointed and saddened by the pathetic statement” from Cricket Australia and it would kick to the International Cricket Council.

It accused CA of prioritising governmental interests implicit just play and sportsmanship, undermining the integrity of the game, and damaging the narration betwixt the 2 countries.

“Cricket has played a important relation successful promoting unity and nationalist pridefulness successful Afghanistan,” the committee said. “After years of warfare and conflict, cricket has helped to bring radical unneurotic and supply a consciousness of normalcy to the country. It has besides been an important root of anticipation and inspiration for each Afghans, peculiarly young people.”

It said it would rethink the information of Afghan players successful the Big Bash League if the determination was not reversed.

Afghan accelerated bowler Naveen ul Haq Murid called scrapping the bid “childish” and accused Australia of taking distant Afghans’ lone crushed for happiness alternatively of being supportive.

When Kabul fell to the Taliban successful 2021, women were banned from playing sports connected the grounds that doing truthful would contravene Islamic laws requiring their hairsbreadth and tegument to beryllium covered.

Recent Taliban restrictions connected women’s and girls’ education, employment opportunities and their quality to entree parks and gyms were cited by Cricket Australia for dropping the men's ODIs pursuing consultation with the Australian authorities and different groups.

“CA is committed to supporting increasing the crippled for women and men astir the world, including successful Afghanistan, and volition proceed to prosecute with the Afghanistan Cricket Board successful anticipation of improved conditions for women and girls successful the country,” CA said.

Australia gave akin reasons for axing a one-off trial lucifer against Afghanistan successful Hobart, Australia, successful November 2021.

In December, the Taliban banned women from completing higher education, having prohibited attendance astatine gyms and parks a period earlier.

Women are besides banned from attending schoolhouse beyond the sixth people and moving astir jobs extracurricular of their homes.

In November 2021, the ICC formed a moving radical aiming to enactment and reappraisal women’s and men’s cricket successful Afghanistan but much than a twelvemonth later, the state remains the lone afloat subordinate of the ICC without a afloat operational women’s team. Afghanistan is besides the lone afloat subordinate not represented astatine the Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup successful South Africa starting this week.

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