Afghan cricketer Rashid Khan has taken to Twitter to name out Australia over our nationwide staff’s resolution to withdraw from an ODI tour of Afghanistan scheduled for March.
Who will inform him that girls’s rights are extra necessary than cricket? Well, you’d assume the actual fact he has a mom would have gotten him there on his personal however I suppose it must be me.
Cricket Australia launched an announcement that learn: “CA is committed to supporting growing the game for women and men around the world, including in Afghanistan, and will continue to engage with the Afghanistan Cricket Board in anticipation of improved conditions for women and girls in the country.”
In response the Adelaide Strikers and Afghanistan star took to Twitter and threatened to stroll away from the Big Bash League altogether, and wrote: “I am really disappointed to hear that Australia have pulled out of the series to play us in March.
“I take great pride in representing my country, and we have made great progress on the world stage. This decision from CA sets us back in that journey.
“If playing vs Afghanistan is so uncomfortable for Australia, then I wouldn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable with my presence in the BBL.
“Therefore, I will be strongly considering my future in that competition.”
Khan’s assertion can be meals for thought if he truly had a legitimate level? Is he critically making an attempt to say that cricket is extra necessary than girls’s rights? And get on a cleaning soap field about it by throwing in strains like hold politics out of sport? We will when males cease policing girls’s lives.
Khan isn’t the one one that’s indignant. The Afghanistan Cricket Board has labelled Cricket Australia’s resolution to withdraw from March’s three-match ODI sequence as “pathetic.”
And then Twitter has gone wild with individuals calling out Cricket Australia for making sport political.
Basically, Cricket Australia has bought the identical response because the Dixie Chicks bought after they spoke out towards the Bush administration – shut up and sing or, on this case, shut up and bat.
I perceive that we don’t like when sport turns into embroiled in politics, however this isn’t about politics; that is about human rights, and Cricket Australia has chosen to not flip a blind eye to the atrocities affecting girls in Afghanistan – good on them.
I’m sorry however some issues are extra necessary than watching males with good hand eye co-ordination and that is one among them.
In a gender alert revealed by UN Women, the organisation alleges that teenage women are now not allowed to attend college in Afghanistan because of the Taliban.
Meanwhile, girls that wish to attend college face gender segregation and strict costume codes resulting in loads of girls quitting their levels as a result of they really feel unsafe.
As of April 2022, 80 per cent of highschool women had been prevented from attending lessons within the nation.
Women aren’t simply disadvantaged of their proper to training; the report discovered that the majority girls in Afghanistan are sometimes confined to their houses and ordered to cowl their faces in public areas.
Employment for ladies can be difficult as a result of they’re have been instructed to solely depart house if completely essential, that means most girls don’t really feel it’s protected sufficient to pursue work.
The gender report by UN Women additionally discovered that home violence towards girls in Afghanistan has reached boiling level, with experiences suggesting that 9 out of 10 girls have skilled a type of intimate associate abuse of their lifetime.
But, sure, let’s push all that apart and return to the bloody cricket. We ought to simply ignore girls’s rights and shake arms, play a sport and even have some tea collectively!
On the floor, it’s straightforward to grasp Khan’s anger, however if you dig deeper, his rant is disgusting and lacks empathy.
How can Cricket Australia morally reconcile taking part in in Afghanistan when girls have turn into second-class residents?
Khan shouldn’t be mad at Cricket Australia. He must be livid with the Taliban, and any stand taken towards the routine must be applauded. Unlike cricket, girls’s lives aren’t only a sport and Khan’s rant proves you may lose badly exterior of sport.
