Afghanistan Women to play in Exhibition Match

[The Lobbster]

It’s very easy to hang shit on the ICC and CA (because they constantly **** up) but the Afghanistan Women’s XI V Cricket Without Borders XI exhibition match to be played on Jan 30 at the Junction Oval is something to be celebrated. Hopefully it’s advertised properly and a decent crowd can show up. CA hopefully to do a free livestream

Link to the announcement: https://www.cricket.com.au/news/4169051

 

[rdhopkins2]

That’s terrific news for Afghani women. They can be role models for the daughters of the future.

 

[Teen Wolf]

It’s very easy to hang shit on the ICC and CA

The ICC haven't done anything to help the Afghan women.

Firooza burned all of her cricket gear to hide it from the Taliban. Then Australia went into bat for her

It’s been three years since Afghanistan’s women cricketers escaped the Taliban. While determined to stay together, they are frustrated nothing has come of their pleas to play.

www.smh.com.au

“The most heartbreaking thing is that we came here and didn’t get that support from ICC,” [Firooza Amiri] says. “Cricket Australia gave us as much support as they could, but we didn’t get international support.