Cricket Australia (CA) will cancel its males’s Check match with Afghanistan if stories that the ladies’s group can not play below Taliban rule are true.
On Wednesday, the Worldwide Cricket Council mentioned it was involved by Taliban cultural fee deputy head Ahmadullah Wasiq’s feedback.
Wasiq informed Australian broadcaster SBS Information: “I do not suppose ladies can be allowed to play cricket.”
CA mentioned they “assist the sport unequivocally” for ladies in any respect ranges.
“If latest media stories that girls’s cricket is not going to be supported in Afghanistan are substantiated, Cricket Australia would don’t have any different however to not host Afghanistan for the proposed take a look at match as a consequence of be performed in Hobart,” they added.
Australia had been scheduled to host their first ever Check in opposition to Afghanistan from 26 November forward of the Ashes sequence with England, which begins on 8 December.
The boys’s group has already obtained assist from the Taliban – however below ICC guidelines all 12 full members should have a nationwide ladies’s group, with solely full members in a position to play Check matches.
The ICC expressed considerations after Wasiq mentioned: “I do not suppose ladies can be allowed to play cricket as a result of it isn’t obligatory that girls ought to play.
“In cricket, they may face a scenario the place their face and physique is not going to be lined. Islam doesn’t permit ladies to be seen like this.”
An ICC assertion mentioned the organisation “is dedicated to the long-term development of girls’s cricket and regardless of the cultural and spiritual challenges in Afghanistan, regular progress had been made on this space since Afghanistan’s admission as a full member in 2017”.
The assertion continued: “The ICC has been monitoring the altering scenario in Afghanistan and is anxious to notice latest media stories that girls will not be allowed to play cricket.
“This, and the affect it’s going to have on the continued improvement of the sport, can be mentioned by the ICC board at its subsequent assembly.”
The Taliban named a brand new authorities on Tuesday, three weeks after reclaiming energy, however doubts stay over the regime’s guidelines.
“To this point, we have no information from the federal government,” Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) chief govt Hamid Shinwari mentioned in a phone interview with SBC and Reuters.
Final week, BBC Sport reported how most of the women’s team are in hiding in Kabul, claiming members of the Taliban have already come in search of them.
When the Taliban final dominated Afghanistan twenty years in the past, women weren’t allowed to attend faculty and ladies had been banned from work and schooling.
