Australia postpone Afghanistan series again due to 'conditions for women and girls getting worse'

I hate Sachin for the way he carried beyond his retirement. Same as Jimmie does for England. Otherwise Sachin was a great player.

I'm just not sure doing this unilaterally is the way to do this. The way to do this is to get their full membership revoked for failing to field a woman's team, which is a requirement. Work behind the scenes with other nations to achieve a common goal, don't do it unilaterally. It's particularly galling when we still play them in tournaments to ensure we advance... They should also stop postponing them and just cancel them. Then don't organise anymore; we have no games against Zimbabwe on the horizon (now that the ODI tournament thing is dead) and only one series against Ireland booked.

Gilberto, I would urge you and others not to be ignorant about the concept of dowry. Of course it can be twisted around and misused, but the concept in its purest form from back in the day is far from evil.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but his life wouldn't be worth the paper his birth certificate is printed on if he did (openly disagree with his country's govt).

He may have been meaning ‘playing against minows’ in general

That's a bit unfair Don on Jaques Kallis If you were inferring he bolstered his stats against Afghanistan then it would be difficult as he never played them in tests or ODI's ....but only 1 T20 Tendulkar never played them either

Thanks for supplying that information Sedz. I can't believe anyone would put down Tendulkar and Kallis by saying they picked off easy runs against Afghanistan . Two of the first picked in a world eleven in MHO

Correct me if I am wrong. I don't recall Rashid Khan ever declaring that he disagrees with his governments’ policy.

Back in his playing days, facing WI was a danger. Then Aus domination continued even though SA threatened to dominate every team. Sachin vs Aus:- 55.00 Sachin vs England: 51.73 Sachin vs SA: 42.46 Sachin vs NZ:- 46.91 Lets take the same SENA countries AWAY average Sachin at Australia:- 53.20 Sachin at England:- 54.31 Sachin at SA:- 46.44 Sachin at NZ:- 49.52 Let us learn to appreciate good batsman. Lot of Sachins stat padding came at the end of his returment season and it has only affected his home season not the overseas. But still he remains one of the best at his time.

Girls aren't banned from secondary and tertiary studies in Bangladesh. There's problems with dowry but legally the govt has banned it. Very different from a country where Dowry and suppressing women's rights is legal and encouraged.

Except that Sachin and Kallis never played vs Afghan. And Sachin had exceptional average vs Australia at Australia with players like Warne, Mc Grath and Gillespie. Enough said. I don't see any non NSW players come close to that in recent times against the Indian team in Indian conditions.

Precisely. It would take leadership and vision, qualities sadly lacking with this sporting body.

great idea, which means it won't happen sadly!

smacks of hypocrisy. Not really. An individual can always declare that they don't agree with their governments' policy. Where there *is* a double standard is in not applying a similar sanction against Bangladesh. They're not sexist, they slaughter anyone who criticises the status quo.

Better still, why not sponsor Afghan cricket for the women. Melbourne Victory have the Afghan women's football side playing in their youth league, a great gesture. If there's any women in the Afghan diaspora with the inclination then funds can be channelled into some sort of meaningful program.

ROFL. Because they "migrated" there, unlike Europeans who kind of "teleported" there and claiming to be Australians. Just like the fake "American". You leave, we will rename it Afghawomenistan. Boom. :laughing: :laughing:

As the Poms would say, what bollocks! CA are simply being cowardly, hiding behind this excuse to cancel a tour they never wanted to be involved with in the first place. If they were fair dinkum about making a stand on this matter, why haven't they lodged formal & public protests against Bangladesh, Ireland & Sri Lanka, all of whom have played international cricket against Afghanistan in recent years? I also guess this means we're going to forfeit our game against Afghanistan if they make the finals of the World Cup and we have to play them?

Thanks for the moral leadership CA.

It’s a dangerous place over in the west

Perhaps but they are not playing for Afghanistan in the BBL. Keppler Wessels wasn't banned from playing cricket