England captain Heather Knight has referred to as for the World Cricket Council to do extra for the Afghanistan girls’s crew, whom she feels were “forgotten”.
Feminine participation in game within the nation has successfully been outlawed because the Taliban’s go back to energy in 2021.
Greater than 20 contributors in their girls’s cricket crew fled to protection in Australia and prior to now requested the ICC so they can play as a refugee crew.
The problem has received additional consideration in contemporary weeks as UK politicians have written to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) calling for England’s males to refuse to play towards Afghanistan within the Champions Trophy fit in Lahore, Pakistan, on 26 February.
Knight mentioned the placement is “complicated” however she hopes to fulfill some contributors of the Afghanistan facet all over the ladies’s Ashes collection in Australia, as they’re enjoying in an exhibition fit towards a Cricket With out Borders XI on 30 January in Melbourne.
“I feel it is in reality just right that it is being mentioned. Clearly, the placement in Afghanistan is heart-breaking,” Knight advised BBC Game sooner than the outlet sport of the Ashes on Saturday (23:30 GMT).
“It is a complicated factor however I feel up to we will publicise the truth that the ladies’s crew are enjoying out right here, we must give the ones women a voice as a result of it is a outstanding tale that they are in reality right here. They controlled to get out of a particularly dire state of affairs.
“I feel the ones women were forgotten so much. This is my fair opinion, which is a in reality unhappy factor. There hasn’t been an enormous quantity of management relating to Afghan girls’s cricket crew, so I might love to peer them have as a lot media as conceivable for that fit.”
