Afghan cricket team in Australia in 2021–22

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Afghan cricket team in Australia in 2021–22
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Dates 27 November – 1 December 2021
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The Afghanistan cricket team were scheduled to tour Australia in November 2021 to play a one-off Test match. [1] It would have been the first Test match to be played between the two teams. [2] Originally the match was planned to take place in December 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] In May 2021, Cricket Australia confirmed the rescheduled dates of the match. [4] However, in September 2021, Cricket Tasmania confirmed that the match would not be taking place following the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, due to the Taliban not supporting women's cricket. [5]

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Background

Originally the Test match was scheduled to take place in December 2020, [6] at the Perth Stadium. [7] On 28 May 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed that the one-off Test match would be a day/night match. [8] [9] In July 2020, Cricket Australia also confirmed they were doing everything to ensure that the match goes ahead, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. [10] [11] Originally, the Test match was scheduled to start on 21 November 2020, [12] [13] but the fixture was pushed back to 7 December 2020 due to the rescheduling of the 2020 Indian Premier League. [14] However, in September 2020, the match was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [15]

In August 2021, following the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, concerns were raised about the match taking place. [16] In September 2021, Cricket Australia admitted that they did not have answers about hosting the match, [17] but the Afghanistan Cricket Board's CEO, Hamid Shinwari, said that their team would be travelling to Australia following the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. [18]

In September 2021, Hamid Shinwari said that the Afghanistan women's cricket team were training in an exclusive female-only centres. [19] However, the Taliban Government's deputy head of the Cultural commission, Ahmadullah Wasiq, said that it was not necessary for women to play cricket. [20] The next day, following the speculations regarding women's cricket in Afghanistan, Cricket Australia announced that it might not been host the Test match, [21] if those speculations were true. [22]

In November 2021, Cricket Australia confirmed that the Test match had been postponed following the forementioned speculations, [23] but hoped to play the match in a future season. [24]

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Bellerive Oval, Hobart

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