ICC President Jai Shah to ban this team: Huge demand emerged.

Delhi: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has appealed to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to ban Afghanistan’s men’s team until women and girls are allowed to play cricket in Afghanistan. The organization wrote a letter to ICC President Jai Shah, questioning the council’s silence on the ban imposed by the Taliban on the game of women. The letter was made public on Friday, in which HRW termed it as “ignoring fundamental human rights”.

HRW, while mentioning the rules of the ICC, said that any member country is mandatory to have a women’s team, so that its men’s team can participate in the international tournament. The women’s cricket team has no existence in Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power in August 2021.

HRW also appealed to the ICC to adopt the International Olympic Committee (IOC) example. IOC has recognized the Afghan women athletes living abroad and provided them financial assistance to give them an opportunity to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, ICC has not yet reacted to this demand for HRW.

After the Taliban rule, women were banned from playing games in Afghanistan, due to which many women athletes had to leave their career or be forced to leave the country. Afghanistan is the only member country of ICC, which does not have a women’s cricket team. Many Afghan women cricketers have settled in Australia, where they are training. She says that she is representing millions of Afghan women whose rights have been taken away.

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