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A team of greater than 160 British political leaders have actually gotten in touch with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to boycott following month’s Champions Trophy suit versus Afghanistan as a stand versus the Taliban routine’s attack on females’s civil liberties. Female engagement in sporting activity has actually properly been banned considering that the Taliban’s go back to power in 2021, a step that places the Afghanistan Cricket Board in straight breach of the International Cricket Council’s guidelines. The England guys’s ODI side result from deal with Afghanistan in Lahore on February 26.
A large cross-party team from the House of Commons and House of Lords, consisting of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and previous leader of the Labour celebration Jeremy Corbyn, gotten in touch with the ECB “to speak out against the horrific treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban.”
Afghanistan are still enabled to contend by the ICC and ECB CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Richard Gould reacted by recommending a consistent technique from all participant countries is the very best means onward.
“The ECB strongly condemns the treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime,” he claimed.
“The ICC Constitution mandates that all member nations are committed to the growth and development of women’s cricket. In line with this commitment, the ECB has maintained its position of not scheduling any bilateral cricket matches against Afghanistan.
“While there has actually not been an agreement on more global activity within the ICC, the ECB will certainly remain to proactively support for such steps. A worked with, ICC-wide technique would certainly be dramatically much more impactful than independent activities by private participants.”
Afghanistan have actually ended up being a better pressure in white sphere cricket in the last few years, climbing to 8th in the ODI globe positions.
They beat England at the 2023 ODI World Cup and got to the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup in 2014, removing Australia at the same time.
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