Women Afghan players during a training session
Afghanistan’s cricket governing body says it still plans to
allow women to play the sport, in an apparent backtrack on the new Taliban
government’s stance forbidding women to play sports.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board has also implored Cricket
Australia not to cancel an upcoming historic test match between the two sides
in Hobart, saying it would set a global precedent that could signal the end of
cricket in Afghanistan entirely.
“We ask Cricket Australia and the whole cricketing world to keep
the door open for us, walk with us, do not isolate us and avoid penalising us
for our cultural and religious environment,” Hamid Shinwari, CEO of the
Afghanistan Cricket Board said in a statement.
Earlier this week, Cricket Australia warned that it would have
“no choice” but to cancel the historic men's cricket test between Australia and
Afghanistan in Hobart on 27 November, following comments by the deputy head of
the Taliban's cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq………….
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