Cricket-Afghan board committed to women's game, optimistic on Hobart test


  • Cricket
  • Tuesday, 14 Sep 2021

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) is committed to promoting women's game in the country and is optimistic their one-off test against Australia in November will go ahead, new chairman Azizullah Fazli has told Reuters.

The ACB fears being isolated after Cricket Australia (CA) threatened to scrap a test match against the men's team if Afghanistan's new Taliban government did not allow women to play the sport.

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