England are attributable to play Afghanistan in Lahore on February 26 of their second match of the event and the ECB has confronted calls from UK politicians to think about boycotting the match. UK prime minister Keir Starmer and ECB chief government Richard Gould have known as upon the ICC to indicate management on the problem.
Ladies’s cricket in Afghanistan has successfully been outlawed because the Taliban’s return to energy in 2021. Additional restrictions have included banning the sound of girls’s voices from being heard in public.
Some 22 girls contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board earlier than the Taliban took management fled to Australia and are actually primarily based in Melbourne and Canberra. Quite a few them will play for an Afghanistan Ladies’s XI towards a Cricket With out Borders XI in a T20 match at Melbourne’s Junction Oval on January 30, the identical day England and Australia start their Ladies’s Ashes day-night Check on the MCG.
Knight, England Ladies’s captain, plans to fulfill plenty of exiled gamers, who are actually primarily based in Melbourne, after they attend the second Ashes ODI at Junction Oval on Tuesday.
“I believe it is a actually good factor that persons are speaking about it and it has been within the information once more as a result of truthfully, I believe it has been forgotten so much which is a extremely dangerous factor,” Knight mentioned. “Clearly, it is a actually complicated scenario with what is going on on however I believe the most important constructive will be that group of girls being talked about.
“They’re taking part in a recreation at Junction the primary day of our Check match so I might like to see that broadcast far and vast. Let’s get that voice on the market that these girls are taking part in cricket, which is a extremely cool factor. I believe that may very well be a extremely constructive message from a reasonably heartbreaking scenario occurring of their house nation.”
