(CNN)The Afghan Cricket Board (ACB) has called connected Australia not to cancel an historical trial lucifer betwixt the 2 countries acceptable for Hobart connected November 27.
Australia, a powerhouse of the sport, has ne'er played a trial lucifer against Afghanistan, contempt the International Cricket Council granting trial lucifer presumption to Afghanistan successful 2017.
This week, Cricket Australia (CA) said it would beryllium forced to cancel the lucifer if the Taliban banned women from playing the sport.
In a Friday statement, ACB CEO Hamid Shinwari said cancelling the crippled would not alteration the "culture and spiritual values" of Afghanistan.
Shinwari noted the caller accrued information of Afghan women successful cricket, but argued the Taliban's spiritual absorption to women playing it was "not substantially different" to the attitudes of the Karzai and Ghani governments.
If different nations followed Australia successful boycotting the Afghan team, cricket "may cease to beryllium successful Afghanistan," Shinwari warned.
Shinwari praised the ICC for having "the forethought to admit and judge each we person been doing to turn cricket successful the cultural, spiritual and changing governmental environments of our country" and called connected CA to amusement the aforesaid "considered, balanced, 'cricket diplomacy'."
"Agreeing to big this trial lucifer would beryllium a treasured acquisition to the radical of Afghanistan by Cricket Australia. It would physique relationships, alternatively than adjacent minds," Shinwari wrote, labelling Australia's menace to cancel the crippled a "knee jerk reaction."
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