Australia registered their fifth win on the bounce within the ongoing ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup defeating arch-rivals England by 33 runs in Ahmedabad on Saturday, November 4 and consolidated their third place on the factors desk. Australia are anticipated to carry on to 3rd place even after the group stage with video games to be performed towards Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Nevertheless, forward of the sport towards Afghanistan, the excitement and the hype of the sport has taken an attention-grabbing flip with an Afghan participant calling out Australia’s double requirements.
Afghanistan pacer Naveen ul Haq referred to Australia’s cancelled three-match ODI sequence between the 2 groups earlier this yr to query Australia and their requirements asking if human rights are nonetheless essential to them two factors are extra essential. “Refusing to play the bilateral sequence, now will probably be attention-grabbing to see cricket Australia stand within the World Cup #requirements #humanrights or 2 factors?,” Naveen wrote on his Instagram story.
For the uninitiated, Australia and Afghanistan had been presupposed to face one another in an ODI sequence within the UAE in March this yr however Cricket Australia cancelled the task in January on humanitarian grounds citing the Taliban’s “restrictions on ladies’s and ladies’ schooling and employment alternatives and their means to entry parks and gymnasiums.”
“CA is dedicated to supporting rising the sport for men and women all over the world, together with in Afghanistan, and can proceed to interact with the Afghanistan Cricket Board in anticipation of improved circumstances for ladies and ladies within the nation,” Cricket Australia had stated.
It’s unlikely that will occur since it is a World Cup match and no group would wish to give away such essential factors that simply. Nevertheless, Naveen has absolutely ruffled a couple of feathers with an unapologetic and brutally trustworthy assertion.
Australia will fancy themselves successful towards Afghanistan, nevertheless, the Hashmatullah Shahidi-led facet has gained their final three video games and might be eager to topple a fancied facet like Australia.
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