{"id":5224,"date":"2023-01-12T21:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=271352"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:12:12","slug":"keep-politics-out-afghanistans-rashid-khan-threatens-to-pull-out-of-bbl-after-team-australia-withdraws-odi-series-citing-talibans-restrictions-on-female-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/keep-politics-out-afghanistans-rashid-khan-threatens-to-pull-out-of-bbl-after-team-australia-withdraws-odi-series-citing-talibans-restrictions-on-female-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKeep politics out..,\u201d Afghanistan\u2019s Rashid Khan threatens to pull out of BBL after team Australia withdraws ODI series citing Taliban\u2019s restrictions on female rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-cricket-board-withdraws-odi-series-against-afghanistan-citing-talibans-restrictions-on-females-rights\/\">Following Cricket Australia\u2019s decision to pull its men\u2019s team from a bilateral ODI series against Afghanistan in March due to the Taliban\u2019s position banning university education for girls in the country<\/a>, <strong>Rashid Khan, who plays for Adelaide Strikers, has threatened to quit the BBL.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really disappointed to hear that Australia have pulled out of the series to play us in March,\u201d Rashid said. \u201cI take great pride in representing my country, and we have made great progress on the world stage. This decision from CA sets us back in that journey. If playing vs Afghanistan is so uncomfortable for Australia, then I wouldn\u2019t want to make anyone uncomfortable with my presence in the BBL. Therefore, I will be strongly considering my future in that competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cricket! The only hope for the country.<br \/>Keep politics out of it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketAus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CricketAus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACBofficials?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ACBofficials<\/a> \u2665\ufe0f \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddeb \u2665\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZPpvOBetPJ\">pic.twitter.com\/ZPpvOBetPJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashidkhan_19\/status\/1613517048184975362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rashid represented Strikers in eight games this season before departing to represent MI Cape Town in the SA20. Due to conflicting commitments, he wasn\u2019t supposed to play in the BBL again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-cricket-board-withdraws-odi-series-against-afghanistan-citing-talibans-restrictions-on-females-rights\/\">Australia Cricket Board withdraws ODI series against Afghanistan citing Taliban\u2019s restrictions on female\u2019s rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Cricket Australia\u2019s decision to pull its men\u2019s team from a bilateral ODI series against Afghanistan in March due to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4644,2],"tags":[1037,781,857],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbl","category-cricket","tag-bbl","tag-rashid-khan","tag-taliban"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43396,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/43396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}