Afghanistan board CEO pleads after Cricket Australia warning: Keep the door open for us

Afghanistan’s cricket authorities on Friday pleaded with different nationwide groups to not shun it over the nation’s new Taliban rulers’ suggestion that they may ban girls from the game. Australia’s one-off Test match in opposition to Afghanistan is ready to be cancelled. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSDon’t isolate us: Afghanistan board pleads after Cricket Australia warningCricket Australia stated it might scrap Test match in opposition to Afghanistan teamACB is powerless to alter tradition and non secular setting of Afghanistan: ShinwariThe Afghanistan Cricket Board CEO Hamid Shinwari has made a plea in a protracted, official assertion, urging Cricket Australia and all different nationwide boards to ‘hold their doorways open to them.

Cricket Australia (CA) stated it might scrap a Test match in opposition to the Afghanistan males’s workforce, scheduled in Hobart in November if the Taliban didn’t permit girls to play the game.”The ACB is powerless to change the culture and religious environment of Afghanistan,” Shinwari stated within the assertion, which started with the exhortation “Keep the Door Open for Us! Walk with us!””We are concerned that, if other countries’ cricket administrators follow CA, then Afghan cricket will be alienated from the cricket world, the development of cricket in our country will be stalled and, even more concerning, cricket may cease to exist in Afghanistan.”The Afghan girls’s squad was disbanded amid security considerations a couple of years after it was fashioned in 2010 however the ACB revived the workforce final yr and gave contracts to 25 gamers.When the Taliban final dominated Afghanistan twenty years in the past, women weren’t allowed to attend college and girls have been banned from work and training.The International Cricket Council (ICC) will talk about the problem in its subsequent board assembly, to be held on the sidelines of the Twenty20 World Cup in October-November.”The whole country is in flux and transition while the new government sets its policies and priorities,” Shinwari stated.Cricket was first performed in Afghanistan by British troops within the nineteenth century, but it surely solely took root within the Nineties after Afghans who had realized the sport in refugee camps in Pakistan returned residence.It was initially banned by the Taliban throughout their 1996-2001 rule however later permitted and has since turn out to be massively well-liked within the nation. The Afghanistan Cricket Federation was fashioned in Pakistan in 1995 and the ACB joined the ICC in 2001 as an affiliate member, gaining full membership in 2017.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.