It’s a bit rich to pretend this is a sudden dramatic shift - the ICC gave, with all members approving, an exemption from the requirement of test nations to have a women’s team to Afghanistan for ‘cultural reasons’ under their old government, and they more or less did not have a women’s team with the full acceptance and knowledge of the cricket establishment.
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But females could still play cricket in Afghanistan
and females could do a lot of things prior. If we banished Zimbabwe for years for human rights abuses then surely we can’t allow the situation that Afghanistan is also now in/will be in. From the reports so far - the “changed” Taliban is looking quite similar to the old one.
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I have mix feelings on this. Its great everyone should be able to play sport no manner who you are , I don’t believe stopping the men play will suddenly make women allowed to play cricket again (unfortunately). Given the sudden situation of US leaving suddenly its a bit murky. It could of been handled better most people would say. Given the quick decision (to cancel the test) , if this “ban” goes on for an extended period time (I can’t see an alternative for now ) men may stop playing too and that isn’t good either. Having said this I hope I am wrong and there is change of heart with the Taliban and they allow women to play as a result of this.
It isn’t new, we stopped played with South Africa previously with apartheid. I can’t remember if it was government who made a decision or the cricket boards maybe someone can let me know. Fast forward to today , there are still a lot of problems in South Africa (human rights related), how far will the sport go to set examples against the governments of nations playing cricket? Should they stop South Africa too? Where do they stop?
Having a good human right’s record isn’t part of the full license requirements though (not saying I agree with that). Having a women’s team is, as is no government influence in the operations of the country’s cricket board. They will probably break both of those requirements through this.
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No they can’t. They can’t even go outside of their house without a male guardian.
I want to the test to go ahead as much as everyone else does, and Cricket Australia want it to go ahead from a commercial and cricketing standpoint, but that stuff isn’t important in this case right now.
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I was referring to pre Taliban. People are using the excuse that they never had a women’s team for Afghanistan. Whilst that is true, they still had women that played cricket across the country just not at the international level. Now there isn’t even females playing cricket locally because now it isn’t allowed by the Taliban.
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Afghanistan did have a national women’s cricket team, but only made official by the ICC earlier this year, hence had not played in an ICC event as yet. L
And the stance isn’t just about cricket, it’s about women’s rights to play sport in general.
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In other words India are forfeiting
The ECB indicated this initially, but have backed away from it being a forefit
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It is interesting if all the team (including support staff) is immunised shouldn’t they keep playing in this new norm ( especially in the UK) ? It shows that even when people are immunised it still is a major concern to continue as normal. Unless some of the team is not immunised.
No. They should do, as they are unable to field a team, however because it is COVID related (and they are India) it will probably be an abandoned match.
Yeah but they didn’t have any players test positive to COVID
5th Test won’t be played anytime soon as the IPL will recommence in 9 days time.
NZ won the fifth and final Twenty20 match against Bangladesh by 27 runs on Friday, but Bangladesh won the series 3-2. The Black Caps’ win was set up by Finn Allen’s 41 and Tom Latham’s unbeaten 50.
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The Blackcaps tour of Pakistan is off, security concerns
Was supposed to start with an ODI in Rawalpindi tonight
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Pakistan not impressed.
New Zealand Cricket cited a “government security alert” for the sudden withdrawal.
Pakistan Cricket Board and Pakistan Government made foolproof security arrangements for all visiting teams. We have assured the New Zealand Cricket of the same. The Pakistan Prime Minister spoke personally to the Prime Minister of New Zealand and informed her that we have one of the best intelligence systems in the world and that no security threat of any kind exists for the visiting team.
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