Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja has mentioned the ICC will strain Afghanistan to make clear its place on the ban on ladies’s cricket after the Taliban took management of the federal government in Kabul.
Raja is a part of the International Cricket Council’s working group reviewing the state of the sport in Afghanistan.
“Afghanistan will be under pressure. I am sure they will have to decide in the next six months how they deal with the ICC,” King informed Stumped on BBC World Service.
In addition to the lads’s group, full members are additionally required by the ICC to have a nationwide ladies’s group. But the return to Taliban rule has raised the potential of forbidding ladies from enjoying cricket in Afghanistan.
“Like everyone else, we are giving them time. They are in a difficult position,” mentioned Raja.
Afghanistan is likely one of the 12 full members of the ICC. Afghanistan males took half within the T20 World Cup performed within the United Arab Emirates and Oman in October and November.
A couple of months in the past, Australia canceled a males’s Test in opposition to Afghanistan which was as a result of happen in late November as a result of uncertainty surrounding ladies’s cricket within the nation.
“It is tough for Afghanistan to reply proper now. Raja, who performed 57 Tests and 198 One Day Internationals for Pakistan, mentioned issues are nonetheless in a state of flux in Afghanistan.
“Wait and watch is the policy of the world and that is the policy of the ICC.”
Raja mentioned that for now, Afghanistan will proceed to get the funds allotted from the ICC.
“It was decided that Afghanistan cricket talent shouldn’t be hurt at all because they have some great players, so all their funding will continue,” he added.
“Although more will be watching how they spend that money.”
Raja additionally mentioned that the PCB desires to start out a ladies’s model of the Pakistan Super League.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
