In a Friday assertion, ACB CEO Hamid Shinwari mentioned cancelling the sport wouldn’t change the “tradition and spiritual values” of Afghanistan.
Shinwari famous the current elevated participation of Afghan ladies in cricket, however argued the Taliban’s non secular opposition to ladies taking part in it was “not considerably totally different” to the attitudes of the Karzai and Ghani governments.
If different nations adopted Australia in boycotting the Afghan workforce, cricket “could stop to exist in Afghanistan,” Shinwari warned.
Shinwari praised the ICC for having “the forethought to acknowledge and settle for all we’ve been doing to develop cricket within the cultural, non secular and altering political environments of our nation” and referred to as on CA to point out the identical “thought of, balanced, ‘cricket diplomacy’.”
“Agreeing to host this check match can be a treasured reward to the folks of Afghanistan by Cricket Australia. It might construct relationships, relatively than shut minds,” Shinwari wrote, labelling Australia’s risk to cancel the sport a “knee jerk response.”
