{"id":2722,"date":"2021-09-09T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T06:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=147739"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T06:31:20","slug":"afghanistan-cricket-board-awaits-talibans-decision-on-the-future-of-womens-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/afghanistan-cricket-board-awaits-talibans-decision-on-the-future-of-womens-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Cricket Board\u00a0awaits Taliban\u2019s decision on the future of women\u2019s cricket\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) still await the conformations and decision of the future of the women\u2019s game from the country\u2019s newly formed government after gaining power when Western-backed government lost power and led to the collapse due to the withdrawal of US forces three weeks back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Almost two decades ago, the last time when Afghanistan was ruled by the Taliban, women were banned from working and girls were not allowed to attend school and receive an education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\u201cIts future will be decided by the new government. We are still in an emergency state in the country. Whenever we get to a normal state, that decision will be made.\u201d said the Afghanistan Cricket Board chief executive Hamid Shinwari as reported by Reuters\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">The women\u2019s team of Afghanistan were disbanded a few years back due to safety concerts having just been formed in 2010. Later the ACB had revived the squad and gave our pro contracts to 25 players last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38;margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato,sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: 400;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">While women\u2019s future in cricket is still unclear, the men\u2019s team will be competing in the T20 World Cup that will be held in the UAE and Oman before heading to Australia for a possible one-off test.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f Statement on proposed Afghanistan Test. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z5dWNn7zxb\">pic.twitter.com\/z5dWNn7zxb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Australian Cricketers' Association (@ACA_Players) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACA_Players\/status\/1435799947983478788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;color: #000000;font-family: Lato, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Earlier today it was announced that The Australian men\u2019s team will not host the Afghan men\u2019s cricket team at Hobart later this year if the Taliban regime refuses to support women\u2019s cricket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato, sans-serif;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;vertical-align: baseline\">The ACB is looking to hold a pre World Cup training camp for the men\u2019s team in Qatar or the UAE for their head coach <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Lato, sans-serif;color: #424242;background-color: transparent;vertical-align: baseline\">Lance Klusener along with the bowling coach Shaun Tait to join the squad while reports suggest that the Taliban are set to ban Afghan women in sports.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan Cricket Chiefs are still waiting for the decision by the Taliban if their women\u2019s cricket\u00a0 team will be allowed to play or not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[768,1254,1386,1398],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-cricket-board","tag-australia-cricket-team","tag-womens-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}