Rashid Khan has threatened to stop taking part in within the BBL, highlighting Afghanistan’s livid response after Australia’s determination to cancel a males’s ODI collection in opposition to them.
Rashid, the world’s pre-eminent white-ball participant who’s starred for the Adelaide Strikers, mentioned on Thursday he was “strongly considering” his future within the Australian T20 league over the difficulty.
Cricket Australia has determined to tug out its males’s staff from the three-match collection within the UAE, citing the Taliban’s ban on college training for women in Afghanistan.
“I am really disappointed to hear that Australia have pulled out of the series to play us in March,” Rashid mentioned in a press release.
“I take great pride in representing my country, and we have made great progress on the world stage.
“This determination from CA units us again 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.”
In a tweet to the accounts of Cricket Australia, the BBL and ACB officers, Rashid added: “Cricket! The only hope for the country. Keep politics out of it.”
The good allrounder performed eight matches for Strikers this season earlier than going to play within the SA20 league in South Africa and wasn’t anticipated to return to Australia this season.
Yet his risk to not play the BBL merely exemplified the anger from throughout the Afghan males’s sport.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board referred to as CA’s assertion “pathetic”, saying it might write to the ICC over the difficulty and accusing the Australians of “prioritising political interests over the principles of fair play and sportsmanship”.
It additionally mentioned Australia was “undermining the integrity of the game and damaging the relationship between the two nations” and bolstered Rashid’s stance by saying it might “rethink the participation of Afghan players in the Big Bash League” if CA didn’t overturn its determination.
Earlier, CA had introduced it had made its determination concerning the males’s staff’s withdrawal following session with the Australian authorities.
It cited the current announcement from the governing Taliban that it was banning college training for women, a growth the ICC’s Australian CEO Geoff Allardice had described as regarding.
If Afghan gamers do pull out of the BBL, it is going to go away an enormous hole to fill as gamers like Mohammad Nabi, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Qais Ahmad, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Izharulhaq Naveed and Naveen-ul-Haq have distinguished themselves lately.
Their T20I captain Rashid, although, has been their flagbearer on the Strikers, with over 400 runs and almost 100 wickets to his title.
Naveen, who performed for Sydney Sixers, added on Twitter that he would not participate within the BBL.
“Time to say won’t be participating in big bash after this until they stop these childish decisions,” he mentioned.
“When a country is going through so much in place of being supportive you want to take the only reason of happiness from them.”
CA had beforehand cancelled an Afghanistan fixture over the Taliban authorities’s insurance policies in the direction of girls, a one-off Test scheduled in November 2021.
Former Afghan white-ball worldwide Aftab Alam responded on Twitter, saying: “Dear Cricket Australia! Cricket is a sport and it always separate from politics, that’s the 2nd time that cancelling the matches with ACB, its unfair that a cricket playing nation like Australia doing injustice like that.
“Our gamers are the great thing about your cricket #BBL.”
