By Ian Ransom
Melbourne, – a promise of financing from the International Cricket Council gave the opportunity to play on the international stage to the Taliban’s challenge to the exiled female crickets of Afghanistan.
The global management body of the game said on Sunday, Taliban, when he was sweeping to power in 2021, he said he would establish a special fund to support Afghan women who resumed in Australia after he escaped from Afghanistan.
The ICC refused to provide a timeline for the payment of financial details or funds, but players hope that the commitment would be a turning point for the women’s game.
“We feel inspiration and valuable,” Nahida Sapan, one of the Melbourne -based refugee cricketists, told Reuters. He said.
“This news gave us a lot of confidence for the future.
“We texted each other and called each other. Some girls were crying because we worked hard for it.”
Sapan was among the 25 women in 2020 by the Afghan Cricket Board to follow the men’s team by playing on the global scene of the game.
Most have started new lives in Australia, some moved to England and Canada.
Sapan’s captain Australian -based cricketists played an exhibition match against a team organized by Crickket with Sowners, a non -profit organization that supports the women’s game.
It was the first matches since his escape from Afghanistan and deprived of international recognition, Cricket was facilitated by Australia and was supported by local government officials.
‘Don’t close the door’
Afghanistan has a settled male team with ICC financing despite the Human Rights groups that call on the administrative organ to suspend the country’s membership and to play internationally play.
Australia and other countries refuse to play Afghanistan men’s team in bilateral series that worsen human rights for women in the district where women’s sport is crushed.
Since he returned to power in 2021, the Taliban restricted women’s education and access, prevented their movements, and forced them to cover their faces and bodies.
Taliban says that they respect women’s rights in accordance with Islamic law and interpretation of local traditions.
ICC, Afghan female cricket careers aiming to maintain but players’ hopes of recognition to establish a task force to establish a task force Indian, Australia and British Cricket boards, he said.
He refused to comment on whether they were recognition for them.
Sapan said he did not reach the women of the Afghanistan men’s team to congratulate women for their commitment to financing.
However, this is understood that the politics in question is understandable, he added.
“This is hard. We know the situation in Afghanistan. We know the cricket situation in Afghanistan, because you know, the Taliban Afghanistan does not want the Cricket Board to support the women’s team.” He said.
He said: “If the woman supports the team, they may not be able to continue their matches and they will be like closing the jack board door for all men.”
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