by bigfluffylemon » Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:06 pm
More than just women's cricket, apparently it's in protest over the Taliban's stance on female education. Again, good for Australia to take a stand (although the cynics might of course question whether we'd be so principled if it was a nation with more clout in the cricketing world).
Naturally this has resulted in the Afghanistan regime calling to 'keep politics out of sport', the cry of anyone who's been called out by sporting events, and generally the sign that whoever is invoking it knows they don't have a leg to stand-on, or they'd be offering a genuine counter-argument rather than trying to persuade everyone to look the other way.
And Rashid Khan has immediately responding threatening to pull out of the BBL in a hissy-fit, and therefore implicitly supporting his government's stance on women. Ok, I understand it's difficult for him and the Afghan team, regardless of their political views they have to live there and under that regime, but he didn't have to say anything at all. If he does support the Taliban's regime against women, then frankly, yes, he can *modded* right off from the BBL.