KABUL: CEO of Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) Hamid Shinwari on Friday asked Cricket Australia (CA) to reconsider his decision not to host his son’s team for the exam in November after the Taliban prohibit sports, by saying such a step will only isolate Thankful country.
Immediately after forming a temporary government, the Taliban prohibits women from playing cricket or other sports, casting doubts about the test status of the Afghan men’s team.
According to the ICC rules, all nations play tests must have a female team too.
Cricket Australia (CA) on Thursday said that the opening test of his team’s side against Afghanistan, scheduled to start on November 27 in Hobart, will be canceled because if the Taliban did not allow women in sports.
In a statement, the CEO of ACB Hamid Shinwari stated “a very large surprise and disappointment” on the potential cancellation of the Australian-Afghan test, which was described as “sudden and unexpected”.
CEO ACB said there were alternatives to cancel testing test “significant, history The door is open to us, walking with us, do not isolate us and avoid punishing us for our cultural and religious environment, “Shinwari said.” We accept that CA see cricket as’ sports for all and we support the game firmly for women at each level ‘ .
Shinwari said that if another country followed CA, Afghanistan would be alienated from the world of cricket and the game could stop.
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“If CA decides to cancel the test match and isolate the Afghan men’s national team, it will not have an impact on the values ​​of culture and religion when they stand.
The spokesman for the government firmly stated this,” he said.
It was said that the Taliban dictation regarding the participation of women in cricket was not much different from the ACB’s cultural and religious environment during the previous government.
Hel also brought the International Cricket Council into the image.
“ICC has realized our cultural and religious environment and has taken a balanced, diplomatic, sensitive approach and attention because we have worked to develop every aspect of the cricket game in our country despite the situation we have faced.” We believe that ICC has had thought.
To recognize and accept that we have done everything we can to foster cricket in our traditional political, religious, and political environment “alternative to the cancellation of test matches will be CA to take the same approach with the ICC.
Cricket diplomacy is considered, balanced, ‘It will be far more productive for Afghanistan and for cricket than the reaction’ jerk knee ‘suddenly, “he added.