An Afghanistan ladies’s cricket staff, consisting of refugees who now stay in Australia, will play a sport in Melbourne in January, the primary time they’ve been capable of come collectively as a bunch since leaving their nation following the Taliban takeover.
The T20 match between an Afghanistan Girls’s XI and a Cricket With out Borders XI will happen on January 30 at Junction Oval forward of the opening day of the floodlit Girls’s Ashes Take a look at on the MCG.
The gamers concerned fled Afghanistan in 2021 when the Taliban got here into energy and now stay in Canberra and Melbourne. Many play for native cricket golf equipment however haven’t been capable of kind themselves right into a consultant staff.
The Australian authorities has been concerned in serving to arrange the match.
“Many individuals throughout cricket and the neighborhood have come collectively to supply help for members of the Afghanistan ladies’s staff since their relocation to Australia and this match can be a celebration of that work,” Cricket Australia chief govt Nick Hockley stated.
“I am delighted that their ambition to play collectively can be achieved on this exhibition match which can be a beautiful addition to the numerous occasions across the Day/Evening Girls’s Ashes Take a look at.”
Earlier this 12 months, 17 of the gamers who have been contracted to the Afghanistan Cricket Board in 2020 previous to the Taliban takeover wrote to the ICC asking for help in establishing a refugee staff in Australia.
“Our objectives in having a refugee staff are to develop and showcase our expertise, give hope to the ladies remaining in Afghanistan, and to attract consideration to the challenges ladies of Afghanistan face,” the letter stated. “Just like the Afghanistan males’s staff, we purpose to compete on the highest ranges. We wish to recruit and prepare women and girls who love cricket to point out the world the expertise of Afghan ladies, and to reveal the good victories they will obtain if given an opportunity by the management and monetary help of the ICC.”
