Knight to meet banished Afghanistan women players during second Ashes ODI

Some 22 women contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board before the Taliban took control fled to Australia and are now based in Melbourne and Canberra. A number of them will play for an Afghanistan Women's XI against a Cricket Without Borders XI in a T20 match at Melbourne's Junction Oval on January 30, the same day England and Australia begin their Women's Ashes day-night Test at the MCG. Knight, England Ladies' skipper, plans to meet various banished players, who are presently situated in Melbourne, when they go to the second Cinders ODI at Intersection Oval on Tuesday. "I believe a truly beneficial thing individuals are discussing it and it's been in the news again in light of the fact that sincerely, I believe it's been failed to remember a ton which is a genuinely horrendous thing," Knight said. "Clearly, it's a truly complicated circumstance with what's happening however I figure the greatest positive can be that gathering of ladies being discussed. "They're playing a game at Intersection the principal day of our Test match so I'd very much want to see that transmission all over. We should get that voice out there that those ladies are playing cricket, which is a truly cool thing. I feel that could be a truly good message from a really terrible circumstance happening in their nation of origin." Heather Knight has encouraged the cricket local area to loan its voice to the Afghanistan ladies' group in the midst of worries that the gathering had been to a great extent "neglected" until a column broke out last week over the Britain men's group playing Afghanistan at the Heroes Prize. Britain are because of play Afghanistan in Lahore on February 26 in their second match of the competition and the ECB has confronted calls from UK lawmakers to consider boycotting the match. UK state head Keir Starmer and ECB CEO Richard Gould have called upon the ICC to show administration on the issue. Ladies' cricket in Afghanistan has really been prohibited since the Taliban's re-visitation of force in 2021. Further limitations have included restricting ladies' voices from being heard openly.