One-off Test between Australia & Afghanistan to get postponed officially this week

CA will formally postpone the one-off Test between Australia and Afghanistan indefinitely this week. The match was earlier slated to begin on November 27 in Hobart but the CA had issued a statement earlier stating that the fixture would not be hosted if the women’s cricket in Afghanistan is not supported. 

"If recent media reports that women's cricket will not be supported in Afghanistan are substantiated, Cricket Australia would have no alternative but to not host Afghanistan for the proposed Test," CA said in a statement on September 9.

Cricket Tasmania (CT) chief executive Dominic Baker confirmed that the Test match won’t take place."It will be formally postponed indefinitely this week," Baker told radio station Triple M. 

"It's not acceptable that they don't allow female sport. If they want to play competitive male sport, particularly in the cricket sphere, they're going to have to rethink what they do,” he added. 

The Taliban government's cultural commission’s spokesperson Ahmadullah Wasiq, had told Australian broadcaster SBS News the women are not allowed to play any sport including cricket according to Islamic law.

"Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or play the kind of sports where they get exposed," Wasiq said.

He further said that the players might face a situation where their face and body will not be covered while playing the game. 

"In cricket, they might face a situation where their face and body will not be covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen like this,” he added.