{"id":72879,"date":"2024-03-19T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/cricket-australia-scraps-afghanistan-t20s-citing-worsening-womens-rights\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T07:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:54:05","slug":"cricket-australia-scraps-afghanistan-t20s-citing-worsening-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/cricket-australia-scraps-afghanistan-t20s-citing-worsening-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia scraps Afghanistan T20s, citing worsening women\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Australia on Tuesday postponed a men\u2019s Twenty20 international series against Afghanistan later this year, saying the situation for women in the Taliban-ruled country was not acceptable.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia said it had received advice \u201cthat conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan are getting worse\u201d and so had taken a decision to \u201cpostpone\u201d the three-match series scheduled in August at a neutral venue.<\/p>\n

Cricket has surged in popularity inside Afghanistan in recent years, fuelled by sporadic triumphs over bigger nations on the international stage.<\/p>\n

But under the Taliban\u2019s brand of Islamic rule, women remained effectively barred from the game.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia said its stance continued a \u201cstrong commitment to supporting participation by women and girls in cricket around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is the third time since 2021 that Australia has refused to play Afghanistan outside of international tournaments.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia first cancelled<\/a> a one-off Test in November 2021, months after the Taliban swept back into power.<\/p>\n

In 2023, officials pulled out<\/a> of a three-match one-day series scheduled to be played on neutral ground in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

The Taliban took control<\/a> of the country in August 2021, renaming it the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and installing an interim government they said would rule according to sharia.<\/p>\n

Teenage girls have been banned<\/a> from attending most secondary schools and women barred from universities, prompting global outrage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia on Tuesday postponed a men\u2019s Twenty20 international series against Afghanistan later this year, saying the situation for women in the Taliban-ruled country was not acceptable. Cricket Australia said it had received advice \u201cthat conditions for women and girls in Afghanistan are getting worse\u201d and so had taken a decision to \u201cpostpone\u201d the three-match series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/19121342fd431d1.png?r=121440","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}