The Afghanistan girls’s cricket crew will play a T20 match in opposition to Cricket With out Borders XI in Melbourne on January 30. This marks their first recreation since leaving Afghanistan.
A Historic Match on the Junction Oval
The Afghanistan girls’s cricket crew, pressured to hunt refuge in Australia after the Taliban’s ban on girls’s sports activities, will play a T20 match in opposition to Cricket With out Borders XI in Melbourne on January 30, 2024.
This vital recreation will happen on the Junction Oval and coincides with the opening day of the Girls’s Ashes pink-ball Check on the MCG.
The exhibition match symbolises resilience and hope for Afghan girls cricketers. Cricket Australia chief govt Nick Hockley acknowledged,
“Many individuals throughout cricket and the neighborhood have come collectively to offer assist for members of the Afghanistan girls’s crew since their relocation to Australia and this match can be a celebration of that work,” Cricket Australia chief govt Nick Hockley mentioned in a press release on Friday (November 15)
“I am delighted that their ambition to play collectively can be achieved on this exhibition match which can be an exquisite addition to the various occasions across the day-night girls’s Ashes Check,” Hockley mentioned.
Assist and a Name for Change
The Australian authorities and ICC have performed essential roles in facilitating this match. The Afghanistan girls’s cricket crew, beforehand contracted, wrote to the ICC earlier this yr in search of assist to type a refugee crew in Australia. Their attraction highlighted aspirations to symbolize Afghan girls globally and encourage these nonetheless residing underneath oppressive circumstances.
“Our targets in having a refugee crew are to develop and showcase our expertise, give hope to the ladies remaining in Afghanistan, and to attract consideration to the challenges girls of Afghanistan face,” the letter mentioned. “Just like the Afghanistan males’s crew, we intention to compete on the highest ranges. We need to recruit and prepare women and girls who love cricket to indicate the world the expertise of Afghan girls, and to reveal the good victories they’ll obtain if given an opportunity via 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 underneath the Afghanistan Cricket Board.
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