England to play Afghanistan at the ICC Champions Trophy despite boycott calls | Current news
England will play their ICC champions Trophy match against Afghanistan, despite the calls for the ECB to boycott.
A group of more than 160 politicians signed a letter that encouraged England to boycott the match in Lahore on Wednesday, February 26, and occupied against the attack of the Taliban regime on women’s rights.
Women’s participation in sports is effectively prohibited from the return of Taliban to power in 2021, which is the move that the Afghan Cricket Committee sets directly to the opposition to the Rules of ICC, the management body of the cricket.
ECB Chairman Richard Thompson described the situation in Afghanistan as “nothing less than his native Apartheid”, which could only be resolved by a coordinated international response, not a unilateral withdrawal from the fixture.
“Today, the ECB Committee discussed recent calls to England to boycott the upcoming champion trophy match against Afghanistan after a wide violation of women’s rights in the country under the Taliban,” Thompson said on Thursday.
“What is happening in Afghanistan is no less than the native Apartheid. At the crisner level, when crickets of female and girls grow rapidly around the world, it is hearty that those who grow up in Afghanistan are denying this opportunity, but with a terrible oppression of women from women and girls by girls The Talibans go so much further.
“The Committee recognizes that there are different views and opinions on the issue of boycotting the match and listened carefully to. We were in close contact with the Government, the International Cricket (ICC), our players in England and other stakeholders to discuss this Matter, as well as Consideration of how the best ECB can support those women of crisletks who fled in Afghanistan.
“After that, we remain the opinion that the coordinated international response of the community for the Crite Current Path and we will achieve more than any one-sided ECB action in boycotting this match, while we also heard it for many ordinary Afghanistani, watching their crisner team one is of rare remaining sources of enjoyment.
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