Australia postpones first-ever Test match against Afghanistan until ‘situation is clearer’
Australia, a powerhouse of the game, has by no means performed a Check towards Afghanistan regardless of the Worldwide Cricket Council granting Check match standing to Afghanistan in 2017.
CA welcomed the inclusion of particular person Afghan gamers in Australia’s home Twenty20 cricket competitors set for the southern hemisphere summer time.
“CA seems to be ahead to internet hosting Afghanistan gamers within the BBL [Big Bash League] this season, who’re nice ambassadors for the sport, and to internet hosting each the Afghanistan girls’s and males’s workforce within the not too distant future,” it added.
In November 2020, the Afghanistan Cricket Board introduced it had awarded 25 feminine cricket contracts.
The Worldwide Cricket Council requires its 12 full members — which incorporates Afghanistan — to have a nationwide girls’s workforce.