Cricket Australia has withdrawn their men`s group from a scheduled 3-fit ODI collection towards Afghanistan to be performed withinside the UAE in March following session with the Australian government.
Australia have been scheduled to play Afghanistan as a part of the ICC Super League following the excursion of India. But CA launched a announcement on Thursday pointing out that it had withdrawn from the collection following a current assertion from the Taliban that it become banning college training for women, which ICC CEO Geoff Allardice defined as concerning.
Following widespread session with applicable stakeholders, consisting of the Australian Government, Cricket Australia has determined that it’s far not able to continue presently with the imminent ICC Super League 3-fit Men’s ODI collection among Australia and Afghanistan scheduled for the UAE in March 2023,” the CA announcement said.
This choice follows the current assertion via way of means of the Taliban of similarly regulations on girls’s and women’ training and employment possibilities and their cappotential to get right of entry to parks and gyms.
CA is devoted to helping developing the sport for men and women across the world, consisting of in Afghanistan, and could keep to interact with the Afghanistan Cricket Board in anticipation of stepped forward situations for girls and women withinside the country.We thank the Australian Government for its assist in this matter.”
This is the second one time in years CA has cancelled a bilateral fixture with Afghanistan because of the Taliban government’s regulations on girls following the postponement of the one-off Test that become scheduled to be performed in Hobart in November 2021.
Australia did play Afghanistan in Adelaide all through the current T20 World Cup. The facets have met 4 instances in worldwide cricket however by no means in a Test fit and simplest as soon as in a bilateral fit in 2012, with the alternative 3 conferences coming in World Cups.
Australia are slated to satisfy Afghanistan two times extra withinside the subsequent Future Tours cycle with 3 T20Is scheduled for a impartial venue in August 2024 and Afghanistan because of excursion Australia in August 2026 to play one Test and 3 T20Is.