KABUL (SW) – Australia’s scrapping of a proposed cricket series with Afghanistan has been widely condemned by the fans and cricketers.
Following extensive consultation with relevant stakeholders, including the Australian Government, Cricket Australia has decided that it is unable to proceed at this time with the upcoming ICC Super League three-match Men’s ODI series between Australia and Afghanistan scheduled for the UAE in March 2023, said an official statement on Thursday.
This decision follows the recent announcement by the Taliban of further restrictions on women’s and girls’ education and employment opportunities and their ability to access parks and gyms, it added.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board has not commented on this.
Did Cricket Australia @CricketAus imposed any restrictions on their cricket team/players bcaz of the war crimes committed by their soldiers in #Afghanistan? If not, their today’s statement makes no sense! It’s just a show off and pure double standards”, tweeted one cricket fan.
“Time to say won’t be participating in big bash after this until they stop these childish decisions that’s how they went about the one off test now ODI when a country is going through so much in place off being supportive you want to take the only reason of happiness from them”, tweeted Afghan cricket star Naveen Ul Haq.
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