BCCI, ECB, ICC & CA To Sponsor Initiative For Afghan Ladies Cricketers
Mumbai: The Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) plans to assist the exiled feminine cricketers from Afghanistan will likely be bankrolled by way of contributions by the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), and the Cricket Australia (CA), a report claimed on Wednesday.
The initiative to help Afghanistan’s displaced girls cricketers, which can embrace teaching and mentorship, “will likely be constituted by a devoted fund,” and it is going to be totally funded by the ICC and the three boards.
An ICC spokesperson confirmed to ESPNcricinfo that the fund won’t embrace any contribution from the Afghanistan Cricket Board. The ACB will proceed to obtain its full quantity from the ICC.
The ICC has just lately introduced that it’ll put in place a plan to assist girls cricketers exiled from Afghanistan after the Taliban took management of the nation and banned the participation of females in sports activities and disbanded the groups.
“Final yr, the prospect of ring-fencing an quantity for ladies’s cricket from the ACB’s portion of the ICC’s income distributions was mentioned however that plan didn’t come to fruition. The ACB is the one Full Member board that doesn’t subject a girls’s crew, and isn’t capable of due to the extreme restrictions on girls’s rights after the Taliban’s return to energy in Afghanistan in 2021,” the report claimed.
The report additionally mentioned, the ICC’s newest plan to interact with Afghanistan’s feminine cricketers neither quantities to official recognition nor does it clear the trail for Afghanistan to subject a girls’s crew, as such a crew can solely be ratified by the ACB. As an alternative, the ICC hopes to work with Afghanistan’s feminine cricketers to offer them with each entry to the sport and funding for additional training.
“The ICC doesn’t choose a crew for Afghanistan. Fairly, we’re dedicated to addressing the complexities of the difficulty and discovering an answer that matches throughout the ICC’s authorized and constitutional framework,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying within the report.
The report additionally confirmed that the ICC’s initiative won’t be restricted to the 19 Afghan cricketers resident in Australia however “the plan is to incorporate all displaced Afghan girls cricketers no matter their location.”
The ICC has to date not clarified on what is going to the Afghanistan girls cricketers in exile do after getting teaching and mentorship from this fund.
