Afghanistan Government agrees to continue women's cricket 

Afghanistan Women's Cricket [Source: Twitter]

After a drastic change in the cricket sphere in Afghanistan after Taliban's takeover of the country, the ICC has confirmed that the government has 'in principal' agreed to resume women's cricket. 

The Taliban administration had banned women's cricket, banning all activities of the Afghanistan women's cricket team. Following this, ICC had set up a Working Group to review the status of cricket in the country. 

ICC received an update from the Working Group that had met the representatives of the Afghanistan government. 

The government official confirmed that they are committed to fully respect and comply with the ICC constitution. 

Working Group Chair Imran Khwaja comments

"The meeting was positive and respectful and the government representative was clear in his support for the ICC constitution including in principle for women's cricket in Afghanistan." 

"There are obviously challenges for it to resume but we will continue to work with the ACB to take this forward. The Working Group will closely monitor the commitment undertaken by the afghanistan government and will continue to report back to the ICC Board."

The Working Group currently consists of Ramiz Raja (Pakistan Cricket Board Chair), Ross McCollum (Cricket Ireland Chair) and Lawson Naidoo (Cricket South Africa Independent Director). 

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