Afghanistan captain hits back at Paine

By Reuters / Wire

Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan has criticised Australian counterpart Tim Paine for questioning the Asian team’s right to participate in major events such as the Twenty20 World Cup.

Paine said the chances of Australia playing a Test against Afghanistan in November were “not looking good” with the Taliban unwilling to let women play cricket and he questioned why the game’s governing body (ICC) had remained quiet on the issue.

“The Afghanistan Team has the right to play not only in this World Cup but in all ICC organised tournaments/events in accordance with the rules and regulations of ICC,” Afghan wrote on Twitter.

“For a less privileged cricketing nation as Afghanistan with zero infrastructure and support, reaching where we are right now and playing shoulder to shoulder with top 10 countries require sheer determination, passion and talent.

“(You are) mistreating Afghan cricket and all the gains we have obtained with hardship in the past decade. Sports should be separated from politics.”

The T20 World Cup, to be played in the UAE and Oman, begins in October with Afghanistan among the eight nations assured of their place in the 12-team tournament.

“I imagine it will be impossible if teams are pulling out against playing against them and governments are not letting them travel to our shores,” Paine said.

“Then how a team like that can be allowed to play in an ICC sanctioned event is going to be very, very hard to see.”

Australia’s cricket board said last week it would scrap the planned Test match against Afghanistan if it was able to substantiate reports that the country’s Taliban rulers do not allow women to play cricket.

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2021-09-18T02:20:36+00:00

Ace

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gotcha

2021-09-17T02:41:56+00:00

Ace

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Cheers. Hopefully seen the last of her and pretentious name

2021-09-16T23:32:11+00:00

ClassAct

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Let them play cricket but for heaven’s sake don’t let them anywhere near the cockpit of an A380 :laughing:

2021-09-16T14:11:25+00:00

Jeff

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I think you pick and choose things that happen in West and then ignore what happen in India - and do not pick and choose other things that are badly done by India at home like religious fights - so you can show what is best argument to support your position. You say one (West) is really bad because look at all these things West does at home and overseas, but then ignore all the same things India does at home too. And also you pretend India would not take action if also attacked by someone else. This is why India has such large Navy. If this is not reason, what is purpose of India Navy?

2021-09-16T13:46:20+00:00

Raju Fernando

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taliban is government, government argument means politics , you interfere in other country matter.

2021-09-16T13:45:11+00:00

Raju Fernando

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silly logic provided by you. you say tribal conflict equal west colony, it is false, tribal conflict people fight each other equal term, west colony go to other place, no body made west colony. first you say tribal conflict killed many,why say different about west colony in other country.now you say external party attacked you that is why you go to war. your logic completely false.

2021-09-16T07:25:06+00:00

Jeff

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The Taliban's position regarding women isn't politics.

2021-09-16T07:05:39+00:00

Jeff

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It's not a suitable fit for International humanitarian law.

2021-09-16T06:36:02+00:00

Renato CARINI

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Ace, You speak for all us cricket lovers :cricket: :cricket:

2021-09-16T06:33:05+00:00

Renato CARINI

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You spoken for matth? I think you may have found your soulmate. Imagine all the great conversation after dinner.

2021-09-16T06:30:23+00:00

Jeff

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That's pretty silly Raju. India has had plenty of domestic incidents of hundreds and thousands being killed in religious clashes, even in very recent years. To use your logic, if India were to be attacked by an external party, it should then have no problem with that because Indians kill each other anyway.

2021-09-16T06:23:08+00:00

La grandeur d'Athéna

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Do not let facts get in his way :stoked:

2021-09-16T03:06:25+00:00

Raju Fernando

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no it started by australia crying about taliban bringing politics,you talk about other they talk about you,politics bad for sport

2021-09-16T03:04:27+00:00

Raju Fernando

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yes you said tribal conflict same as west colonizing, why america has problem other killing american when they are killing them too?

2021-09-16T02:49:10+00:00

Ace

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Yeah, it's got to do with Le Grandeau D'Athena and it's comments Just clogging up space with it's rants

2021-09-15T12:56:23+00:00

Ad-O

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Ironic. The whole concept of professional women's cricket is bringing politics into sport seeing as it doesn't make any money, nobody watches it, and its more about virtue signaling than anything else.

2021-09-15T12:51:27+00:00

La grandeur d'Athéna

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Didn’t answer a single question you asked? I think you may be unhinged. May be you are delusional. Your supposed answer is you did whatever you wanted to do while not liking someone else doing same thing to you. 9/11 never happened in Australia. State sovereignty is the most absolute law. Yet you are trying to convince me that if you can not solve your issues because your military is a failure, you are concerned about human rights, you can invade sovereign territory. Then so can we. You were talking about consensus of people. almost one third of global population live in two countries. You come and state your nonsense here in front of public, you will understand if i speak for them or not. I would rather be a nationalist than being a colonist passing entire night sleeplessly due to deep insecurity of losing colonized territory. https://www.businessinsider.com/white-america-is-slowly-being-replaced-2015-6 If you do not mind, i would like to tell you one more thing that most people believe. West will always accuse others of what it has done or doing. Do you want to check out again if i am speaking for the mass? why is India at the centre of that? India is in middle to South China Sea? Lying must be very easy for people from west https://theintercept.com/2021/08/26/afghanistan-america-failures/ generated from a deep sense of insecurity and self-doubt – as you are continuing to display – is a good starting point for examination Then you better start examining it fast across your nation.

2021-09-15T12:40:25+00:00

La grandeur d'Athéna

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I believe I do. Because China is not yet prepared to pull the trigger on a “hot” conflict with India For a nation who can not defend itself from some groups and has been playing invasion game with weakest country in the bloc, you people sure play the expert role pretty well. I am not from africa where your expertise might work. China is probably 3 years away from having a line of unsurpassed military defensive (offensive) installations in place As i have said, we will do our job, you worry about yours. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/14/gen-mark-milley-worried-trump-could-launch-nuclear-attack/8334915002 I have no interest in opening up another front in this argument with supposedly superior people who think run a government much more easily than passing primary school. How we deal with China is our bi lateral issue.

2021-09-15T11:40:58+00:00

Jeff

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"Recent brawl between Indian Army and PLA in galwan valley was the deadliest unarmed brawl we had in our history. Despite that, not a single bullet was fired. Do you know why? " I believe I do. Because China is not yet prepared to pull the trigger on a "hot" conflict with India, so the instruction to the PLA will be to provoke and test, but not invoke a broader conflict. China did that and India fell into its trap unfortunately. China is probably 3 years away from having a line of unsurpassed military defensive (offensive) installations in place (specifically airfields) across its northern border and in its western province. The speed at which China has been building its military installations in Tibet has surprised even the most experienced analysts. China's issue has always been how to manage the distance and altitude challenges through Tibet and abutting India's Ladakh border. The resupply distance, coupled with the lower-oxygen altitude at which fighter planes must fly, has been a constant problem for China given these conditions limit the loading of planes with heavy armaments due to high fuel use. That issue is now being addressed by China via its construction of staging posts across western Tibet and Xinxiang, centered on air bases. During this time, India at best has a) built the tunnel under Rhotang for year round access to the north, b) blacktopped the Manali-Leh Highway and c) built two crude dirt roads (for military accessibility) along the valley floors of the north-west Himalaya (Zanskar Range) in the north of Ladakh. Based on this, in who's favour do you really see any major border conflict ending as the years progress?

2021-09-15T11:11:32+00:00

Jeff

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Didn't answer a single question you asked? I think you may be unhinged. There's one truly geopolitical hotspot on the planet right now, where tensions are at boiling point and escalation could lead to devastating global consequences. My question to you is, why is India at the centre of that? (hint: uninformed, nationalistic attitudes generated from a deep sense of insecurity and self-doubt - as you are continuing to display - is a good starting point for examination).

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