‘Formally no ban on girls’s sport, particularly cricket’: ACB chief

“Now we have spoken to the highest Taliban authorities officers and their stance is that there’s formally no ban on girls’s sport, particularly girls’s cricket,” Fazli informed Al Jazeera.

Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, there have been considerations concerning girls’s sports activities within the nation, with a number of feminine athletes fleeing Kabul.

Fazli informed the publication that the Taliban didn’t have a “drawback” with girls’s participation in sports activities and that there was no official coverage of stopping them from partaking in it.

“However what we’d like to remember is our faith and tradition. If girls adhere to that [attire], there is no such thing as a drawback in them collaborating in sporting actions. Islam doesn’t permit girls to put on shorts like the opposite groups do whereas enjoying soccer particularly. That’s one thing we’d like to remember,” the ACB chief mentioned.

On the nation’s preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup, he mentioned the group had been coaching for the final two months, even after the group took over Kabul. “They mentioned they help cricket and are absolutely behind the event of the sport.”

Fazli mentioned the Taliban had assured him there could be “no political interference” in cricket and different sports activities.

Talking in regards to the scenario within the nation, he mentioned it was “nice”, as there was no ongoing combating — other than remoted occasions. The ACB chief mentioned earlier than the group took cost, a number of folks have been killed each day.

“The safety scenario is nice and the longer term is vibrant from Afghanistan cricket,” Fazli mentioned.

On ICC’s evaluate of Afghanistan’s full member standing, the ACB chief mentioned the worldwide cricket physique had granted Kabul the standing again in 2017 — and it had no clause of expulsion in case there was no girls’s group.

“We do need to have the group, after all,” he added.