The Afghanistan ladies’s cricket group will play a T20 match towards Cricket With out Borders XI in Melbourne on January 30. This marks their first sport since leaving Afghanistan.
A Historic Match on the Junction Oval
The Afghanistan ladies’s cricket group, pressured to hunt refuge in Australia after the Taliban’s ban on ladies’s sports activities, will play a T20 match towards Cricket With out Borders XI in Melbourne on January 30, 2024.
This vital sport will happen on the Junction Oval and coincides with the opening day of the Ladies’s Ashes pink-ball Take a look at on the MCG.
The exhibition match symbolises resilience and hope for Afghan ladies cricketers. Cricket Australia chief govt Nick Hockley said,
“Many individuals throughout cricket and the neighborhood have come collectively to offer assist for members of the Afghanistan ladies’s group since their relocation to Australia and this match shall be a celebration of that work,” Cricket Australia chief govt Nick Hockley mentioned in an announcement on Friday (November 15)
“I am delighted that their ambition to play collectively shall be achieved on this exhibition match which shall be a beautiful addition to the various occasions across the day-night ladies’s Ashes Take a look at,” Hockley mentioned.
Help and a Name for Change
The Australian authorities and ICC have performed essential roles in facilitating this match. The Afghanistan ladies’s cricket group, beforehand contracted, wrote to the ICC earlier this 12 months searching for assist to kind a refugee group in Australia. Their enchantment highlighted aspirations to signify Afghan ladies globally and encourage these nonetheless residing below oppressive circumstances.
“Our objectives in having a refugee group 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 mentioned. “Just like the Afghanistan males’s group, we goal to compete on the highest ranges. We need to recruit and prepare women and girls who love cricket to point out the world the expertise of Afghan ladies, and to show the good victories they will obtain if given an opportunity by the management and monetary assist of the ICC.”
ICC chief Geoff Aldrice acknowledged the challenges posed by Afghanistan’s present regime, making it troublesome for ladies’s cricket to progress below the Afghanistan Cricket Board.
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