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Afghanistan's Women's Cricket Ban: ICC's Governance Failure

Afghanistan / ICC

Ongoing 2021–2024

Afghanistan's Taliban government banned women from playing cricket — in direct violation of ICC membership requirements — yet Afghanistan's men's team continued playing in ICC tournaments, forcing cricket's governing body to confront its most challenging governance dilemma.

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Taliban Bans Women's Cricket in Afghanistan

Afghanistan (women's cricket)

8 September 2021

After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, women were banned from playing cricket and all sports, raising questions about Afghanistan's ICC membership and the governing body's commitment to gender equality.

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