Khaleda Pople turns to Maya Angelou to heal her damage. His Twitter timeline accommodates a quote from the good American poet and civil rights activist: “I learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Did it.” Khaleda, the previous Afghanistan ladies’s soccer crew captain, now lives in Denmark after organizing a large evacuation effort, serving to a number of feminine athletes in another country within the wake of the Taliban takeover. Recently, FIFA evacuated 57 extra gamers and their households from Afghanistan.
Against this backdrop, with Afghanistan’s males’s cricket crew enjoying within the ongoing T20 World Cup, gamers are embracing stereotypes, making an attempt to be politically appropriate throughout media interactions.
How are they feeling inside? Mohamed Nabi’s troopers had tears of their eyes when the nationwide anthem was performed in Sharjah forward of the match in opposition to Scotland. A report by News9 Sports claimed that Taliban authorities officers took exception to such an emotional outburst, asking the crew to be factual as an alternative.
Following the takeover, the Taliban modified the then nationwide flag and reportedly banned the nationwide anthem.
Afghanistan beat Scotland within the first match of their event earlier than enjoying in opposition to Pakistan, a recreation which the nation’s Khama Press information company referred to as “one of the most exciting games in WC”.
Rashid Khan has additionally modified since his Twitter publish two and a half months in the past. When the previous captain was requested about coming again dwelling on Thursday, he replied: “Things are getting better. Back home to be back to normal and hopefully, this is something we hope to see a lot better in the future as well. “
Is Afghanistan cricket in a quagmire of worry? A query concerning the state of the sport again dwelling was met with a voice of silence, after an preliminary ‘hello’ from a former Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) official.
The males are general silent. But from Khaleda, 28, to Tuba Jan Sangar, 28, who has labored to develop ladies’s cricket in Afghanistan, ladies have spoken. “Cricket is not only a recreation for the Afghan individuals. Everyone loves cricket. There’s no hope now. Our gamers, our employees, they’re caught in Kabul. All they care about is their lives,” Sanger, now primarily based out of Canada, informed the Financial Times final month.
Afghanistan gamers have a good time victory in opposition to Scotland. (AP picture)
Despite ACB president Azizullah Fazli’s declare that the Taliban-led authorities has not “officially” banned ladies’s cricket within the nation, the world is just not satisfied. In September, Cricket Australia (CA) stated it might not host Afghanistan for a one-off Test in Hobart in November if ladies’s cricket was not supported. A tweet from CA on 9 September stated: “It is extremely vital for Cricket Australia to speed up the expansion of girls’s cricket globally. Our imaginative and prescient for cricket is that it’s a sport for all and we help the game for girls at each stage.
“If ladies’s cricket is not going to be supported in Afghanistan, as latest media experiences say, Cricket Australia may have no selection however to not host Afghanistan for the proposed Test match to be performed in Hobart. “We thank the Australian and Tasmanian governments for their support on this important issue.” The International Cricket Council has mandated all its full members to have a ladies’s crew, which is non-negotiable, and the ICC board is prone to focus on the Afghanistan concern after the continued World Cup. Meanwhile, the worldwide physique has adopted a ‘wait and see’ method.
“It is a board issue, not something that can be decided by the (ICC) management. They are obviously keeping a very close watch on things,” an ICC insider informed The Indian Express. Despite the crew’s efficiency within the T20 World Cup, Afghanistan cricket goes via a interval of uncertainty.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
